Enrichment Day at VES

For one afternoon students at Village Elementary School (grades K - 2) chose special mini-courses that interested them outside of the regular curriculum. We were encouraged by our Horizon's teacher (pc for Gifted and Talented these days) to teach something out of the box and something that the students wouldn't normally expect you to do. The male PE teacher, a good friend of mine since high school, and I have a love for good food and cooking. Certainly something the students wouldn't expect from the two of us. Nor do most of the staff for that matter, so we chose to teach a course on French cooking. Using the Disney movie Ratatouille, and the cookbook by Thomas Keller inspired by the movie, we created a French cheese fondue for the students. Armed with plastic knives and skewers, the students watched part of the movie, and created one of the best cheese fondues I have ever tasted before. It's truly great to see students outside of the regular environment of school. We setup our fondue stations in the teacher's lounge, and the students were very excited to learn a new skill.

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