History and pretzels at HANC

Fifth Graders at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School in West Hempstead, are learning about and baking their way through the original 13 Colonies.

Students learned that the Middle Atlantic Colonies were called the “bread basket” because they grew most of the wheat in the area. Students also learned that although the colonists living in Pennsylvania were called Pennsylvania Dutch, they were actually not originally from the Netherlands, but from Germany. They were called Pennsylvania Dutch because they spoke Deutsch (German). In honor of the Pennsylvania Dutch, who introduced pretzels and mustard to the colonies, the students baked their very own pretzels! It was a very yummy lesson!

Thank you to Mrs. Goldberg, Mrs. Lovy and Mrs. Strauss for baking help.