001Good morning SAU 16. This is Superintendent of Schools Kristen Trasky and here I am at Lincoln Street School with some really esteemed colleagues and students and they're going to talk to us a little bit about the maple syrup project in fifth grade. With me is Principal Ryan McCloskey, Dr. Estell and Mr. Schmidt, fifth grade teachers. So I'm going to turn it over to our teachers to let us tell them a little bit about the project and then we're going to hear from our fifth grade students. Mr. Schmidt. So we've been tapping the trees at Lincoln Street School on the campus back of the school, front of the school for probably about 10 years with the goal of letting the students get involved with pretty much the whole process from tapping the trees all the way
002through to the evaporating and then the sampling that we'll have over at one of the stations over here. So it's a wonderful experience that allows the kids to be able to understand what's happening in nature in New Hampshire and other New England states during the four or five six weeks of late winter. We started this program 10 years ago on a simple turkey fryer out front of the school and have since grown to this major operation you'll see here today and love turning it over to the kids so they're the ones giving their experience and giving the tours to the rest of the Lincoln Street School community along with some of the second graders from Main Street School who come up because this ties right into their science curriculum as well. And at this time
003I want to pass it over to some of our amazing fifth graders who are here to just share a little bit about what today looks like for our maple syrup education day. Well, this means a lot to me because you know, some of the best teachers teach me and my family has been doing this for four generations so it's great fun to trade and I guess I feel really lucky that I get to educate a bunch of other students and I'm just helping it. I like it because it's a fun project and I like having maple syrup on my pancakes and I also make it with my grandpa who taps his own trees. So I had knew a lot about this project coming into it but I like how I get to share it with
004other people and how we each get our own station to go about and learn about what each tiny part does. I remember when we started in third grade and we saw and saw maple syrup and then I thought, "Huh, this will be me one day." And yeah, that's awesome. And so it's a amazing feeling to be part of this program. Yeah, I love maple syrup so it's kind of cool to see how the system is, like how it is made and we got to pick four things and this is our that was our last pick but it turned out it was really fun. Thank you Dr. Estell, Principal McCloskey, Mr. Schmidt and Lori, Parker, Liam and Ryan. Thank you for this amazing opportunity and I look forward to some fantastic on my pancakes too, Parker.
005So hopefully when this is done I can get a little little taste. SAU 16, thank you so much and we will see you again in a couple weeks.