Woodland Middle School student bakes for school supplies

Woodland — Woodland Middle School student Dakota Wilcox, 11, was learning about giving back, so her mom suggested she combine it with baking, a passion she had discovered throughout the last year. “Kids should learn what it means to put in the work to earn the satisfaction of knowing what you did will benefit others,” Celina Green, Dakota’s mother, said in a release from the school district. “As children, we don’t realize the amount of hard work it can take to purchase necessities and provide for others, and I wanted Dakota to learn that lesson.” Green encouraged her daughter to bake sugar cookie bars and sell them to benefit her younger brother’s preschool at Woodland Primary School, which is taught by Patricia Morgan, an early interventions specialist and special education teacher. Dakota’s cookie sales brought in more than $600 in new learning toys and other equipment for the preschool program, such as a Rifton Activity Chair, specially designed to provide versatile and adaptable seating for children with disabilities, and a new music stereo used during daily lessons.