Roberta Foster- Teacher of Gifted and Talented K-5rfoster@mtoliveboe.org | Hungry and hunger are just words to most of our children, said Roberta Foster, a fifth grade Gifted and Talented teacher, who along with fellow fifth grade teacher in Sandshore School, Donna Desmond, conceptualized a "hunger project" to give the children a better sense of what adults were talking about when they talked about the less fortunate ... "Donna heard about it in another school system and brought it here," said Foster, who has been a teacher 30 years ... 16 years.The pictures of the starving and mal-nourished children really got their attention, said Foster.The next step was dividing the children into three groups ... second and third world groups. This involved a host of lessons for them to learn, said Foster, it was interesting to watch them "problem solving and pooling their resources," seeing those with plenty and the different attitudes the third world children had with the first world children, some, but not all of whom chose to share what they had.It was obvious the children had a much better understanding of what it was like to be hungry and how important it was to share after this project, said Foster. When the teachers felt the children had learned enough about hunger they all shared in the rest of the lasagna, salad, desert and milk meal. | Hungry and hunger are just words to most of our children, said Roberta Foster, a fifth grade Gifted and Talented teacher, who along with fellow fifth grade teacher in Sandshore School, Donna Desmond, conceptualized a "hunger project" to give the children a better sense of what adults were talking about when they talked about the less fortunate ... "Donna heard about it in another school system and brought it here," said Foster, who has been a teacher 30 years ... 16 years.The pictures of the starving and mal-nourished children really got their attention, said Foster.The next step was dividing the children into three groups ... second and third world groups. This involved a host of lessons for them to learn, said Foster, it was interesting to watch them "problem solving and pooling their resources," seeing those with plenty and the different attitudes the third world children had with the first world children, some, but not all of whom chose to share what they had.It was obvious the children had a much better understanding of what it was like to be hungry and how important it was to share after this project, said Foster. When the teachers felt the children had learned enough about hunger they all shared in the rest of the lasagna, salad, desert and milk meal.