Food Project--Phase III 
                                                                                                    

This phase shows how we ended the food project and what events took place.
During our daily meetings with the students, they decided that going to a farm and having a picnic was the best way to end the food unit.  So we went to Carol's Country Place in Fresno, TX.  The students also wanted to sing farm songs and write and draw in their journals everything they saw and did at the farm.  This was a great ending to our food project because the students had a vast knowledge of where food comes from, what category it is in and if it is good for you.

    We learned that milk can also come from a goat, not just a cow.
These boys just became aware that goats only have teeth on the bottom of their mouth and this led to a discussion of how the goats eat and how come their clothes didn't get any holes in them while the goats were chewing on them.
The students remembered that many meat products come from pigs such as bacon, sausage and ham.

    After walking through Miss Carol's garden we discussed how squash, green beans, tomatoes, spinach, lettuce and herbs grow and that they look different from how we buy them at the grocery store.

Here are some of the drawings that were done after the field trip to the farm.

The children wrote, " I liked the tractor, the farmer must use this for the garden."
"I liked the fat pigs and the garden, we get alot of our food from a farm."
"I liked it when I played basketball on the farm."
"I like the horse, pigs, goats, lamb and cow."

When we look back over the course of the project we see how active the children were in their own learning!   We were excited and amazed how the children took charge of this project and learned more than we thought possible.  It was a great experience for the teachers and the students!