This week the first grade students made a social studies connection with Señora Benagas. One topic of interest regarding first grade's recent bread unit, is that people from all over the world eat some type of bread. Señora Benagas introduced the children to corn tortillas, a type of thin, unleavened flat bread made from finely ground maize (corn), a staple eaten in Mexico and Central America. Each student had a turn to press their own ball of corn mesa in a tortilla press, watch it cook on a griddle, and then eat and enjoy it hot off the grill!