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Kindergarten class bakes muffins, donates them to Community Table
Scotts Creek School kindergarten class

Full from performing a "quality assurance" exercise during a recent baking project are students in Becky Fowler and Kathy Jones's kindergarten class at Scotts Creek Elementary School. They are, from left, (front) William Carpenter, Megan Jamison, Brandi Moore, Emily Coward, Rebecca Selby, Hannah Coggins, (middle) Cody Silvers, Shawn Rasnic, Mckinzie Stephenson, Nikki Ellis, Tiana Boisseau, Lukas Edwards, Jessie Monroe, Niki Duff, (back) Nicole Riley, Carrie Shuler, Jaime Vandlen and Mitchell Payne. Not pictured: Sawyer Mims and Rebecca Ann Cope. More than 200 muffins were donated to the Community Table.

 The Community Table recently received a donation of 200 bran-raisin-pecan muffins made by kindergarten students from Scotts Creek School.

The students in Rebecca Fowler and Kathy Jones's class were studying wants and needs of the community. One of the needs they learned about involved nutritious food.

"It is a need for every person to have nutritious food," Fowler said. "So as a community service project the class made nutritious muffins."
Belinda Payne, Kathy Monroe and Grannie Mame helped the class with the mixing the ingredients. Children were placed in small groups and helped to measure, pour and mix. (During the mixing there was one big surprise. Most of the children did not know the smell of molasses. Because of this discovery there will be a follow up cooking with biscuits and honey and molasses.)

The Scotts Creek lunchroom staff provided the pans and ovens for the baking and were very patient with the trips back and forth, Jones said. Erinda Shuler supervised the baking to make sure the muffins didn't over cook. Many of the parents sent ingredients to help with the project.

"One of the special things about this project was that so many people worked together for it to be accomplished," said Fowler. "The class would like to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who helped them."

When the first pan came out of the oven, the class had muffins for breakfast. The children then learned the term "quality assurance."

"They really enjoyed the joke about having to eat some muffins before giving any away - 'It's just quality assurance,' I told them," said Fowler. "And just to be extra sure they ate muffins for snack that afternoon. After all that, we still had 200 to donate."

Megan Jamison and her mother, Connie Jamison, and Jaime Vandelin and her father, Jim Vandelin, went with Fowler to the Community Table to present the muffins. Volunteers cooking the evening meal were pleased that the muffins were packaged in sandwich bags with two muffins per bag. They stated the need for food that can be put in a backpack for the homeless who come in for the evening meal.

A letter written and signed by the entire class was put on the wall at the Communty Table for everyone to see.

"It was a real special project and one that we hope made good memories and good citizenship training for the children as they consider the needs of others," said Fowler.

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