5th Grade 31st Annual Bread Fair

The 31st Annual 5th Grade Bread Fair will be held Monday, February 4, 2013 in the courtyard of the Airport International Inn in Williston. The program will begin at 1:00 p.m. with close to 350 students in attendance and another 130 participating in their classrooms. This event is sponsored by the National Hard Spring Wheat Show for northwestern North Dakota and northeastern Montana fifth graders and their teachers.

The event was started to help area youth understand where their food comes from and the role of agriculture in the Williston Basin, and to experience the lost art of bread making. The North Dakota Wheat Commission provides classroom teachers with the booklet “The Story of Wheat”, which the students read prior to the Bread Fair and complete a worksheet.

The fifth grade students will prepare their own loaf of honey whole wheat bread while learning about the nutritional value of bread, as well as the local agricultural ingredients they will use to make their bread. At the end of the day each student will take a loaf home to bake and share with their family. Main ingredients for the bread are sponsored by the following: honey-David Huelsman, yeast-Red Star Yeast, and flour-North Dakota Mill and Elevator.

 

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