How it started…
A successful bake along… many banana puddings later! S/O to @mstaylor_teach for setting all of this up! I love a good excuse to whip out my chef hat 👩🏼🍳💕 pic.twitter.com/J8UMjubqeN
— Abby Monday (@MissMondayTeach) May 14, 2020
In the middle of emergency remote learning, I started a passion project of my own while my students worked on their own projects. I wanted to share the joy of baking with my class so my co – teacher and I decided to do a bake along. We shared a simple recipe, students got their supplies and we baked (or really assembled) a banana pudding on zoom.
Then we started this year remote, Miss Monday and I had so much fun with that bake a long that we decided to make bake alongs a whole class community building project. Thanks to generous support from our school district and families, we have made several treats on zoom together. All this time, baking continued to bring me joy while I coped with the demands of virtual teaching and mothering in a pandemic.
Right after winter break, our district decided to return to hybrid instruction. One of the first questions my students asked was, “How will we do bake alongs?” On the same day that my student asked me this, my partner said, “I know you are worried about returning to school, you love baking bread so much what if you could do that with your students?” He and I started brainstorming together. Could I get enough bread machines? Would I be allowed to do this project? What if… When… How…
How it’s going…
All the bread we baked. I wish you could see these 3rd grade smiling eyes, trust me, they are beaming!
Last week was the first week of hybrid school. While it was scattered and stressful and full of uncertainty and anxiety, something that brought joy to my students and I was baking. That’s right, during the first week of hybrid school we baked 17 loaves of bread! It smelled delicious, the students brought their loaves home to share with their families and when I said, “Smile with your eyes!” to take their picture they were beaming. Next week we will bake again, basic white or cinnamon raisin. Not only does this project spread joy, build community and build agency with student learning, but it also helps me provide students with an authentic and engaging way to work with all sorts of math and communication skills. All while filling the room with delicious smells and joy.
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