Photo Album: Students learn about making maple syrup in Auburn

Oakland Vallieres, center, records information with his iPad on Monday while third grade teacher Tara Knight pulls a tap from a maple tree at Walton Elementary School in Auburn. The classroom was moved outside, and teachers designed their lessons around the maple syrup making process. Students tapped four maple trees on the school’s front lawn and collected the sap for Ben Lavigne of Auburn to boil down into syrup. The students shared over a gallon of maple syrup at the end of the day. They will use the information they gathered Monday to make a book on their iPads. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Ben Lavigne shows students a pan of maple sap he is boiling down to make maple syrup Monday at Walton Elementary School in Auburn. Third grade students’ classroom moved outside and teachers designed their lessons around the syrup making process. Students tapped four maple trees on the school’s front lawn and collected the sap for Lavigne to boil down. The students shared over a gallon of maple syrup at the end of the day. They will use the information they gathered Monday to make a book on their iPads. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Oakland Vallieres reads his worksheet about making maple syrup Monday at Walton Elementary School in Auburn. Vallieres is a student in Emily Manahan-Makley’s classroom. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Third-graders Emberland Vallieres, left, Cameron Goldrup, center, and Oakland Vallieres answer their worksheets about making maple syrup Monday at Walton Elementary School in Auburn. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Jaxon Mitchell, right, and Emberland Vallieres use their iPads Monday to create a book about the process of making maple syrup at Walton Elementary School in Auburn. Third grade students’ classroom moved outside and their teachers designed their lessons around the syrup making process. Students tapped four maple trees on the school’s front lawn and collected the sap for Ben Lavigne of Auburn to boil down. The students shared over a gallon of maple syrup at the end of the day and will use the information they gathered Monday to make a book. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Third grade teacher Emily Manahan-Makley talks with her students Monday about the process of making maple syrup at Walton Elementary School in Auburn. Makley and Tara Knight moved their classrooms outside for the day to teach about making maple syrup. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Ben Lavigne of Auburn boils maple sap Monday on the front lawn of Walton Elementary School in Auburn. Lavigne arrived at the school at 5 a.m. so students would have maple syrup to take home by the end of the day. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Third grade teachers Tara Knight and Emily Manahan-Makley designed their Monday lessons around the maple syrup making process at Walton Elementary School in Auburn. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Third grade students tap large maple trees Monday on the front lawn of Walton Elementary School in Auburn. It’s an annual tradition. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

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