Healthy Foods From Healthy Soils

Healthy Foods From Healthy Soils  April 8 - May 13, 2013
Every year our entire third grade class participates in this unit.  It involves learning about plants, plant cycles, recycling, composting, soils, and trees.  The first part of the unit involves classes at school, indoors and out.  It will be taught by myself, Mr. McKibben, and Mrs. Boucher.  The most fun part, however, and the most experiential part is when we all go to farm school!
For a week, students pack into our school buses and we head to Wolfe's Neck Farm in Freeport to spend each day with farm staff.  Children learn about life cycles, animal cycles, growing cycles, different ecosystems, foor webs and so much more.  The highlight for everyone of course is the animals.  Everyone will help care for the different animals and do the farm chores for the day.  We'll also include journal writing.  Stay tuned for more.