This summer, SMART START students embraced learning all about life on the farm!
Follow along our farm unit below🚜
Classmates diligently care for their class pets each day at school. From placing hay inside the chicken coops, collecting eggs for mealtime to feeding and brushing the bunny, our students are quite the experienced future farmers! Nurturing animals is crucial for a child's social-emotional development as it teaches responsibility, independence, patience, increases self-esteem and so much more!
Learning in nature is vital component of our curriculum. The group gathered in our outdoor classroom to explore themed literature and listen to a story time. In addition, pupils played a cooperative board game Count Your Chickens (linked here!).
Farm friends enjoyed free playing with a classic children's favorite, toy barns! Peers pretend played with various farm animals, tractors and their imaginations.
Fruit picking is a staple farm activity. Our young learners circled by our school garden to pick berries from the blueberry bush.
To conclude our farm festivities, a petting zoo came to visit! The class thoroughly enjoyed this hands-on encounter with goats, ducklings, guinea pigs, sheep, pig and a hedgehog. All interacted with the animals by brushing and feeding them. A fun and adorable way to introduce farm life!
🐔 SMART START🐔
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