My fifth grade group finally finished reading Fig Pudding by Ralph Fletcher. It is the wonderful and yet heart wrenching story of a year in the life of the Abernathy Family; their ups and downs. I starts on Christmas of one year and wraps up on Christmas of the following year. The kids LOVED it and we had a fantastic time reading and discussing it.
During the story the 6 Abernathy kids make stollen each and every year with their grandmother. I was able to buy some stollen and bring it in for the kids to try. 
Can you tell it is getting close to Christmas?
The consensus was that the stollen was pretty gross, only one student liked it, BUT they can now say they have tried it in their life!
What a fun group.
This student loved it and asked to bring the rest home. Our next book...Because of Winn Dixie, an all time favorite of Mrs. C.
