Mrs. Jennifer's Kindergarten Class: Learning About Farming

I believe the more the children use their senses (feeling, seeing, tasting, hearing) in learning the more they will retain. We not only want to impart information we want them to actually experience it first hand. This is also why we try to have special visitors in the classroom to share their knowledge, materials and experiences with the children. This weeks community helper was the farmer. The children enjoyed taking a virtual tour of a dairy farm yesterday and today Mrs. Jessica brought several items from her farm to share with the students. She talked about what an important tool the wheelbarrow and pitchfork is to a farmer. She talked about the different animals that she has on her farm (horses, calves, hens/chickens, etc.) and how she cares for them. They learned several interesting things. The younger a hen is the smaller the eggs and that not all eggs are white. Horses wear shoes to protect their feet but their shoes look a little different. Sometimes Mrs. Jessica feeds calves with a bottle but the bottle was a little bigger then the bottle that their mother fed them and their siblings.