Escuelita South 2014-2015

Farming is important to us! In our Escuelita class we are realizing that farms and farm animals produce food and other things that we use every day.

"Plants grow in the soil. Soil is dirt in the garden."

"Farmers grow food in the soil too!"

"We grow plants like farmers in our garden."

What kind of food grows on a farm?

"Corn grows on a farm."

"Hay!"

"Pumpkins grow on a farm in Davis."

"Lemons grow on a farm."

"Hay is what horses eat."

"Cows like flowers that grow on the farm."

"Corn grows on the farm! Taller then me. Like, it's really tall. I'll show you how tall. As big as my daddy."

1.Sharing the knowledge that we already have

2.Exploring

2.Playing with corn!! Counting, picking, painting, counting and drawing corn!

3.Smashing corn!!

4.Squishing corn

5.Pressing corn

6.Cooking corn

7. EATING CORN!!

"You know, a farm has chicks. You know what else? I have two baby chicks in my back yard at my house. Baby chick's grow into chickens that lay eggs for people to eat."

Artist: Char Michelson

Artist -Muriel Rogers

Artist -Escuelita Students

Stay tuned for our finished painting!!

"I am a farmer. I am plowing the land so that
we can grow corn."

"We are farmers!"

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?"