11/19/19

11/12/19

Today was too cold to play outdoors, so the kids spent their free time with board games, instead.

 

The chicks got plenty of love and attention today!

The class sorted different nouns from the farm into two bins: common and proper.

11/5/19

Today's farm news consisted of an update on the broody silkies.  We talked about their progress (and their poor timing with the cold weather).  Later in the day, we counted the number of eggs under hen #1.  We brought them in and candled them to see which were developing and which were not.  The class was able to separate them into those that were infertile/no development, those that had a blood ring (showing that the embryo had died), and those that were alive and well.  Hen #1 has four healthy little eggs under her!  The class also helped to give preventative coccidia medication to the Nigerian dwarf kids.

In other news, we were given pumpkins for the pigs!  I told the class about picking up the truckload of pumpkins, and how the pigs absolutely love them.  We even cracked open a few and threw them over the fence during class.

 

After our animal chores, the class read their stories.  They wrote about the broody silkie hens.  Those mommas have to stay on their nests for 21 days!  The kids came up with some great stories... some factual, some fictional, some third person, and some from the hens' points of view.  They did a great job!

In art, we began a simple geometric fall project.  The class created tree silhouettes, and they will be filling in squares with different shades of color to complete the scenes.