Sunday, February 22, 2015

Who lives on a farm?


Escuelita students are learning about farms and farmers. A farm is land or water that is devoted to raising animals, plants or fish. A farm is a place with land to grow crops. On farms, livestock such as horses, cows, sheep, pigs, goats, chickens, ducks, or rabbits are raised for livelihood. The farmer is the person that takes care of the farm. The farmers operate the farm and cultivate
 the land. People, plants and animals can live on a farm.


What do we know about farms?
"The horse says, Naaaaay."
"The ducks live in a pond."
"The mouse says squeak."
"Pigs live on the farm."
"There are chickens on the farm."
"Cows!"
"A man lives on a farm."
"A rabbit can live on a farm with a dog."
"There's a farmer."

Horses live on farms

Feeding the horse some hay
 

Counting collage

Students worked together to create a multi media collage of things we might find on a farm. 

8 apples on the apple tree
10 stalks of corn

2 big grey clouds in a blue sky

One big red barn

9 fluffy sheep

Building Barns



Farmers plant their crops in straight rows.

Here is the farmer's field!


We are finding all of the circles. We are making rows of circles.
This one is for squares. Look at how long is our row of squares!
Plowing the field

Planting the flowers


Don't forget to water!

Corn grows on the farm. This is cornmeal. This is ground up corn that we are playing with.
"Corn is yellow!"
"Squash is yellow."
"There is a yellow watermelon?"
"That tomato is yellow."




We cut open different colored bell peppers. We painted with peppers and also saved the seeds that were hidden inside of them. Once we picked out all of the seeds we placed them on a tray to dry so that we can plant them in our garden next week.
"Bell peppers are my favorite!"
"We are going to plant the seeds just like a farmer plants seeds in a farm."
"Will they turn into pumpkins?"

The farmer plants trees.
We can plant trees too! 
A tiny acorn will grow into a GIANT Oak Tree.







Playing with acorns is fun too!

Thank you Zarah for coming into our class to teach us how to plant trees. 




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