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4Elementary
School News
 Lesson makes social studies a tasty treat!
Mr. Murray's and Mrs. Mahon's fourth grade
classes wrapped up a social studies lesson on the geography of
New York in a mouth-watering way. They made sugar cookie maps of
New York State!
After learning about New York's major cities,
mountains, bodies of water and border states, the students were
were given cookie dough and asked to shape it into the outline
of New York. After baking the cookie, the students frosted the
Mohawk and Hudson Rivers and used chocolate chips to represent
the Adirondack, Catskill and Taconic Mountains. They added gumdrops to mark the cities of Albany, Schenectady,
Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo, and New York City. And of course,
when the lesson was over—they ate their projects!
 In addition to being fun, the
project had a serious purpose.
"Students have different learning styles," said
Mr. Murray. "Some absorb information listening to their teacher
or reading a book. Other learn better by doing. This
cookie/geography lesson is just another way to reinforce what we
are learning in class—and it was tasty at the same time!"
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