This Fall the Pre-K and Preschool classes took Filed Trips
to Local Farms. Our goal in taking children to local farms was for them to have
as much hands-on experience as they can, so that they truly understand, with
all their senses where food comes from. The more they can touch, smell, and
taste the things they are learning about, the more deeply they will understand
and remember what they learn.
After each field trip Micha (Farm House Café) came to school
with all the vegetables/fruit we had harvested. We revisited the field trip with the
children. Then children had the
opportunity to cook using the ingredients they had harvested. Raspberry picking at Las Augus Farm
The children were so excited to go the raspberry farm. When
we got there we were greeted by Andy Tafoya (owner and Jaxson Dad ) . He first talked to the children
about being gentle with the plants and then showed them the difference between
a ripe and non-ripe berry. Each child was
given a cup for raspberry’s but as children were picking more were eaten then
made it into the cup! Children were very interested not only in the raspberries
but the entire surrounding and asked many questions.
The PreK class had the opportunity to visit a nearly 100 year old apple orchard
with Farmer Micah, and her assistants Lizzie and Nikki. The children busily gathered many hundreds of apples which were made into yummy apple crisp by the children the following day.
When we were at Taos Village Farm we were welcomed by farmer
Micha (Taos Farm House Lunch Program), Roy and Jonnie(owners) and Taos Academy
6th and 7th graders. The children first
helped collect eggs and feed the baby goats and pigs. We then walked down to
the field and greenhouse where the children helped harvest tomatoes, beets,
carrots, kale and onions! It was wonderful to see the children connecting with
local agriculture and being mentored by Taos academy students about the farm.
New Mexico Early Learning Guidelines
Meet:
#3 The child's behavior demonstrates
health and hygiene skills.
#4 The child demonstrates safe behaviors
in increasing numbers of situations.
#5 The child demonstrates development and
expansion of listening skills.
#6 The child communicates experiences,
ideas and feelings through speaking.
#14 The child uses the scientific method
to investigate the physical and natural
worlds and to hypothesize and make predictions.\
#15 The child acquires scientific
knowledge related to life sciences.#17 The child exhibits self-awareness.
#18 The child demonstrates self-control.
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