THE FARM

This morning we watched Mr. Andrews video of  his visit to the Hoese Farm, in Mayer, Minnesota.  The Hoese family have owned the farm since 1882.  

                                                           Farmer Eric and Farmer Scott 

Mr Andrews feeding a cow

  

   Milking a cow

                                  The corn silo where they can store up to 72 truck loads of corn

After watching the video each student made a thank you card for Farmer Eric and Farmer Scott. 

   

We posted a photo of the farm onto the whiteboard.   Allowing the children to add their own drawings to the image.

A group of students worked with the two farm sets lining all the cows up for milking.   

LUCY: We need green paper for the grass, and blue for the ocean.   When she saw the other colors she decided they needed a purple field.  I offered brown for mud, "Oh, OK, we can use brown."

At the end of the morning the children shared the M, words they brought with them and we were able to brainstorm a few others to add to the list.  We came up with thirty five 'M' words.  An impressive number for the first day.  

We read It's Milking Time by Phyllis Alsdorf.  The book shows a father and daughter working together to milk the cows each day.

QUESTIONS
What did you draw on your thank you card to the Farmers?

What can we make from milk?

How many times a day does the farmer milk the cows?