BRATTLEBORO-Academy School received a Community Schools Foundation Grant from the Vermont Agency of Education and, as a result, is partnering with Brattleboro Food Co-op to create take-home cooking kits for kids to use with their parents or caregivers.
The co-op has previously provided mobile cooking classes to a number of classrooms at the Academy School, a public elementary school off Western Avenue. However, this time, students will take home edible homework.
Students bring the kits home on a Wednesday and have have a few days to create a snack with their caregivers, practicing the math and reading skills they have been developing all year. Then they return kits to the program.
The first kits were assembled by the Food Connects farm-to-school team, and went home with Amelia Fontein and Emily Marker's kindergarten classes in early May. The kit instructions were translated into four languages to ensure the success of every child.
A work party of Brattleboro Food Co-op shareholder volunteers assembled the next set of kits at Brattleboro Food Co-op on May 28, and granola bar–making kits will be sent home with sixth-graders May 28–30.
Co-op representatives say they are very grateful for the hard work of an Academy sixth-grade teacher, Rachel Glickman, who applied for the grant and has been involved in every step of this project.
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