Owen, Kai, Vivian, Simon, Marat, Arleigh, Annie and Ada spent their morning at the farm. On the ride over, Marat taught his friends “How much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?”

When we arrived Tami and Farmer Charlotte bartered eggs, honey and apple cider vinegar while Wee Friends began their explorations.

    

Next, we headed over the chicken coop to watch Joseph gather eggs.

We also saw Taffy drinking water.

We watched a chicken inside a coop and found several underneath the trailer.

Charlotte captured a small chicken and Wee Friends enjoyed petting her.

 

We moved to another coop and Kai retrieved an egg.

We shared our table scraps with the chickens!

Arleigh found a feather and shared it with her friends.

Wee Friends brushed and fed both Ruby II and Taffy the horse!

Farmer Charlotte taught Wee Friends how to train Ruby II to “walk…whoa.”

After our time with the animals, we headed to the woods to create drama.

As we walked, each Wee Friend collected a favorite jewel from nature.

We found a stage space, gathered into a circle and each friend described their jewel and also, what it reminded them of. Using these natural jewels, the earth and the ideas they generated, we guided the actors through a highly imaginative improvisational story involving helicopters, umbrellas, parachutes, planting a seed and a very loud rainstorm. We began it with a song celebrating the earth and its jewels and ended it by parachuting out of our helicopter. It made sense to us! In fact—it was glorious!

Ada began her farm day rolling down the hills. When we asked our friends to gently lay down (and leave) their collection of nature’s jewels in the grass before getting in the Weehicle Ada said “Can I lay down, too?” The rest of the WF Jewels piled in the Weehicle for the trip home.

Back in the classroom, Lisa and Melinda worked with friends on an egg matching game. They counted jelly beans and charted their discoveries. They practiced concert songs and enjoyed this glorious day on the playground.

For breakfast the we had corn chex and bananas.  For lunch we had farm fresh egg salad on whole wheat, corn, mixed fruit.

Have a great day!

Laurie