Fun at the Farm

This morning Max's Joy School got to visit the Adams' farm in Buckeye.  The Adams go to church with us and have been farmers in Buckeye for many, many years.  They have chickens, goats, a horse, peacocks, geese, roosters, pigs, and sometimes even cows.  They also have fruit trees and a rather good garden for being in the desert.  The kids LOVED everything about it.  Jackie Adams was so nice in showing the kids around and explaining each and every piece of equipment and animal.  She let them find eggs, feed the horse, goat, and pigs and then surprised them with ice cream at the end.  Her husband even was nice enough to take the kids on a tractor ride.


This little chicken is only about 3 months old.  Another 3 months and she should start laying eggs.

When adopted as a baby, the Adams' were told it was a pot-bellied pig.  Now full-grown, it is obvious it is NOT a pot-bellied pig, but more of a javalina.

This horse, Shadow, has only been at the Adams' farm for about 2 months.  It was severely neglected before arriving.

The kids found about 6 eggs and got to take them home.

A 3-month old Americana chicken.  These are the types of chickens we raised before giving them to the Gable family.  One of ours now lays light blue eggs!

Kind of a strange way for a tractor ride, but the kids LOVED it!

Joy School: Letter G, Fall Theme

Besides regular preschool, Max participates in a Joy School preschool.  This preschool is run by several moms who take turns each week teaching.  This was my first week teaching and I felt pretty lucky because I had the theme of Fall.  Such a fun theme!  There's so many things associated with Fall that it was hard to narrow down what I should teach.  Luckily, I have 3 weeks of this theme, so I can space it out with my assigned letters as well.  This weeks letter was G.

I found this awesome tree that came with green leaves, colored leaves, acorns, and various animals.  I decorated the tree with the green leaves first and then as we talked about Fall, down came some green leaves and up went the colored leaves.  We also changed out the animals.  My favorite thing was teaching the kids the word "chlorophyll." 

Summer tree

Fall tree

Some of the other activities we did were "Ghosts on G."  The kids made ghost stamps out of potatoes, stamped them on black paper and then cut and glued them onto the letter G. 

We talked about scarecrows and used various shapes to make our own scarecrow.

 

 

Besides the Fall theme and the letter G, we also learned the sight word "the."  We then made these Fall trees using the word "the."  (Max, however, decided to write random things instead of the correct word.)

Lastly, we made a "Leaves on the Tree" booklet that talked about the various color of Fall leaves.  We even managed to squeeze in a few Fall-themed books during snack time (grapes and goldfish for the letter G).  It was a pretty jammed packed two hours, but overall I think it went pretty well. 

Coming up next week: more Fall fun, the letter H, and the sight word me!

Max's 1st Day of Preschool