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No ordinary class field trip

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Thursday, 27 December 2012 08:39

On a recent morning, the fourth grade students at Trinity Lutheran School, 3016 W. Vine Street in Kissimmee, went on an unusual field trip to the Walmart Neighborhood Market across the street from Trinity on West Vine Street.
They were accompanied by their teacher Cindy Sharman, Pastor Emeritus Peter Zieg, and several parents.
This was no ordinary class field trip. Four important lessons were gained from this school trip. Lesson one involved studying a shopping list, looking up and down the aisles, finding the correct food items in the correct size and then comparing prices in the store. They also discussed the differences between canned and boxed food versus fresh and frozen and national brands versus store brands.
Back in the classroom, the second lesson involved putting math skills to work in finding the totals spent, price and size comparisons, and graphing the results.
The third lesson required writing skills to complete an essay on this experience. All three lessons are very valuable to become wise shoppers and better-educated students, but the fourth lesson was the most important for the Trinity students.
The last lesson was not about the food shopping itself, but about giving to others who do not have the resources to go shopping. Trinity students, with help from the congregation’s Samaritan Fund, were able to purchase 144 food items. These items purchased were brought forward in the School’s Wednesday morning Chapel service as part of the offering.
The following day the students loaded the church van with bags and bags of food. Three students accompanied Pastor Pete in delivering the food to the food pantries at Osceola County Council on Aging and the Osceola Christian Ministry Center.
These students came back to class and shared how grateful people were to receive food and how much of a need there still is.
“Our math skills have gotten better, but our hearts have grown so much more through this experience,” Sharman said.