Making Bread!

 There are lots of things that make learning great. But the best learning is the 'hands on' learning that we did so much to develop when the girls were young. We took them to the parks and jungles to make sure they observed and touched things, to engage in their surroundings and develop a care for the world. We also made sure that they developed a relationship to preparing food. Thankfully the school where we are currently does an excellent job with their Edible Education program too and that influence has made its way to different classrooms and age levels. 

For Irini one of those connections came in the form of a science project. The set up was something like this:  Study yeast (and how it works) through making your own bread. For several days she had to put the ingredients together from scratch and then measure how much the starter had grown. Over the course of two weeks she prepared, covered, observed, measured and finally baked her very first loaf of sourdough bread!  Sadly the bread didn't last more than just a few minutes once the family got their hands on it, but we suppose that it a success story, right?  We love our baker/cook in every way possible!