Celebrating Our Farm Animal Projects

Fiona and her second-grade buddy, Taylor,  record important facts about sheep.

Noah is dictating information for James to record.

For the last weeks of 2012 we had been learning about farm animals. The children selected an animal of interest to study. Working with teams of two or three, the students researched important facts about their chosen animals. We encouraged the children to find out what their animals ate, what the names of the adults and babies are, and what their body coverings are. The most important fact, our driving question was, "Why do the farmers have these animals on their farms and how did the animals help the farmer to earn a living?"

The children have made information booklets about their animals and have created a teaching prop to illustrate the farm animal they had chosen. Our second grade buddy class helped the children to decide on four important facts to teach others about their animals.

On Friday at 2:00 the second grade class will return to hear our reports. We have also invited our families and friends to join us for this celebration. The class is eager to share some of the important information that they have learned.

Our next projected-based learning activity will continue our study of living organisms and will be around the topic of bugs, insects, and other creepy crawlies. The children will again select an organism  they are interested in studying and will work with teams to learn all they can about their animals.