Rice Babies Turns 30

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FWCD’s Rice Babies project celebrated its 30th year when the 75-member Class of 2033 created their own babies. First-Grade Teacher Sheri Fuller and her team, Ann Buis, Diana Isbell, and Donna Rubin, brought the project to FWCD in 1992. Students in the Class of 2004 were the very first Falcons to enjoy the project that involves students filling tea-dyed socks with rice equal to their birth weight; adding wiggly eyes, a pacifier, and a belly button; and swaddling their newborn in a baby blanket. Little did they know they would become a part of a storied FWCD tradition that many consider a rite of passage for all FWCD firstgraders.

“I love the joy that Rice Babies bring to FWCD families,” Fuller noted. “It was so fun to see our First-Grade Associate Courtney Corbeille Krauss ’06 make a Rice Baby this year and share her firstgrade Rice Baby photo with her dad when she made a rice baby years ago.

“I never thought Rice Babies would be the long-lasting tradition it has become,” Fuller continued. “I just love that we continue to open up the school year with our students in this way.”