FairKids Field Trip Program THE FARM

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1 FairKids Field Trip Program THE FARM Howdy, Ya ll. Leave your city slicker at home and mosey on down to FairView Farms for a knee slapping good time. Saddle up and join the stampede while you experience life in the old Wild West. The Big Red Barn We have added a plethora of new interactive activities in the barn including stage shows with our very own cowboy Sky Shivers. Zuckerman s Nursery The farm hands are busy taking care of all the baby animals in Zuckerman s Nursery. Who can resist the sight of cute babies - especially when they are four-legged! Sky and Friends Sky s the limit in this interactive baby farm show. Do you have a question about your favorite animal in the Big Red Barn? Now s your chance to raise your hand and come on stage to be part of the action. Lily s Sheep Emporium Sheep 101 Did you know that sheep s wool is used to make sweaters, dresses, coats, suits, jackets, pants and even the lining of boots? Judd, our Sheep 101 teacher, will be demonstrating everything you need to know about sheep, wool and their many uses. Dairy Goat Barn & Pasture Have you ever wanted to milk a goat? Visit the Dairy Goat Barn where you can milk a goat and see a variety of breeds in this fun and educational exhibit and show. The Little Red Hen Chicken Coop & Hatchery Visitors to the Big Red Barn can witness baby chicks hatch every day. As the Fair progresses, the display will slowly fill up with chicks from one day old to 24 days old. The Pastures Every year animals are born in our pastures during the Fair. Visit an array of baby animals and their parents including goats, pigs, cows, and sheep. You might even be lucky enough to see a baby animal born right before your very eyes! Farm House Friends Petting Barn The Big Red Barn features one of the largest petting barnyards anywhere with gentle animals that are raised especially for Farm House Friends. Daisy s Education Barns In the Milking Parlor, you will learn where milk comes from as you watch the cows milked the oldfashioned way. The Los Angeles International Dairy Products Competition will display all the winners in ice cream, gelato, cheese, butter, yogurt, and more. Moo Market is the place to buy white and chocolate milk.

2 FairView Farms Grocery Store In this interactive exhibit, children get the chance to go shopping for produce, cereal, and other food groups that would be grown on a farm, all with a kids size shopping cart! Uncle Bob s Curds & Whey Barn Learn how to make ice cream, butter, cottage cheese, and cream cheese the old-fashioned way with Aunt Cindi & Uncle Bob. Cindi s Millinery Barn Come learn to make vintage hats using the original techniques from long ago. The Farm Gardens Farm Fresh Cuisine All of the fruits and vegetables grown in the farm are used as ingredients at McKinley s Grille, offering a perfect blend of Southern California style and casual sophistication in a warm inviting atmosphere. McKinley s Grille is located in the Sheraton Fairplex Hotel & Conference Center on Fairplex s Campus. Thummer s Feed Store Farm life has never been so fun! Have you ever wondered how hay bales are made? Well, look no further, ole fashion hay baling has come to FairView Farms! Learn how to make your own hay bale with our 1800 s replica of an antiquated hay baler. In Thummer s Feed Store you can even grind your corn as they did in the past and see how the corn is turned into mash that feeds both our animals and us.

3 Grades: primary The Little Red Hen Chicken Coop & Hatchery Before your visit: *Read several books about chickens and discuss the information with the students. *Introduce and define vocabulary: hen, rooster, chick, bird, feathers, wings, oviparous, and henhouse *Brainstorm facts about chicks and make a circle map. (If the children do not state that a chicken is a bird, guide them to this fact and remind them of the characteristics of a bird feathers, warm blooded, oviparous, wings) *Discuss the fact that it takes 21 days for a chick to develop inside an egg. Mark the start and end day on your calendar and refer to it during calendar time each morning. *Transfer the information from the circle map to the tree map (Chicks..can/have/are) *Watch an online video of a baby chick hatching from its egg. There are several available on u-tube. *Create an art project that shows the life cycle of a chicken. Use a paper plate for the background. In the middle of the plate, write the life cycle of a chicken. At the top, 12:00, draw and label an egg. At the 3:00 position, draw and label a chick hatching out of its egg. At the 6:00 position, draw and label a chick. At the 9:00 position, draw and label a hen. Add arrows between the drawings to indicate the sequence of the chicken s life cycle. *Place the following poem in a pocket chart. Read it many times so that the students can memorize it and act it out. A Warm Brown Egg by Aileen Fischer Peck, peck, peck on a warm brown egg, Out comes a neck, out comes a leg. How does a chick who s never been about Discover the way of how to get out? During your visit: *Look at the hens. How are they alike/different? Find these body parts: head, legs, wings, feathers, and beak. Why do you think the chickens have sharp, pointy toes? *Look at the chicks. How are they alike/different from the hens? Do you see chicks that are different sizes? *Do you see the hens and chicks eating? What do they eat? *Count the hens and the chicks. Which group has more/less?

4 After your visit: * Discuss the real hens and chicks that you saw at Fairview Farms. Add information to your circle map and tree map as needed. *Complete the first/next/then/finally writing page to show the sequence of the chick s life cycle. *Use the thinking maps to write information about chicks. (Assign the number of sentences that is appropriate for your grade level.) Illustrate your sentences. Books About Chickens: Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown Chicken and Egg by Christine Back and Jens Olesen Chickens Aren t The Only Ones by Ruth Heller Egg To Chick by Millicent E. Selsam From Egg to Chicken by Gerald Legg Good Morning, Chick by Mirra Ginsburg Here A Chick, There A Chick by Bruce McMillan How and Why Animals Hatch From Eggs by Elaine Pascoe Life Cycles Chicken by David Schwartz Minerva Louise by Janet Morgan Stoeke Roosters Off To See The World by Eric Carle Rosie s Walk by Pat Hutchins Tap! Tap!...The Egg Cracked by Keith Faulkner The Chick and the Duckling by Mirra Ginsburg The Chicken Book by Garth Williams The Little Red Hen pictures by Lucinda McQueen Where Do Chicks Come From? By Amy Sklansky

5 name date Think about the chicks you saw at Fairview Farms. Finish the sentences to explain the chick s life cycle. First, Next, Then, Finally,

6 Name date Think about your visit to Fairview Farms. Use your thinking maps to help you write about the cute chicks you saw there. Draw a picture to match your sentences.

7 thinking map/circle map name chicks

8 thinking map/tree map name chicks can have are

9 Grades: primary Daisy s Education Barns Before your visit: *Read several books about cows and discuss the information with the students. *Introduce and define vocabulary: cow, cattle, bull, heifer, calf, bovine, mammal, fur, udder, cud, and herbivore *Explain that cows eat plant matter (grass, hay, etc.) that is difficult to digest. They regurgitate and re-chew their food or cud for 6-8 hours a day. They chew their cud to make up for not chewing much while actually eating the grass. This breaks up the plant matter into smaller and smaller chunks. *Brainstorm facts about cows and make a circle map. (If the children do not state that a cow is a mammal, guide them to this fact and remind them of the characteristics of a mammal fur, warm blooded, babies born alive, and feed babies milk) *Discuss the idea that milk is good for people, too. Brainstorm products we make with milk (cheese, cottage cheese, butter, yogurt, ice cream) *Transfer the information from the circle map to the tree map (Cows..can/have/are) *Watch an online video of a cow being milked. There are several available on u-tube. * Practice milking a cow. Fill a rubber glove with water and poke a small hole in the end of each finger. Suspend the glove from a frame (a chart stand will work). Have the children milk the udder into a bucket. *Place the following poem in a pocket chart. Read it many times so that the students can memorize it and act it out. Five Cows (tune: Five Green and Speckled Frogs) Five cows all black and white Chewed their cud from day to night. So they could give milk so sweet and pure. Squirt! Squirt! One left the barn one day, So she could find more hay. Then there were four cows all black and white. Moo! Moo!

10 During your visit: *Look at the cows. How are they alike/different? *Do you see the cows eating? What do they eat? *Can you see the cow s teeth? Are they flat or pointed? Why? *Watch a cow being milked. Do you think it would be hard work to take care of a dairy cow? Why or why not? After your visit: * Discuss the dairy cows that you saw at Fairview Farms. Add information to your circle map and tree map as needed. *Use the thinking maps to write information about cows. (Assign the number of sentences that is appropriate for your grade level.) Illustrate your sentences. * Udder painting. Fill a rubber glove with paint and poke a hole in the finger tip. Suspend the glove from a frame (a chart stand will work) and place paper (and lots of newspaper) underneath. Squeeze the glove as the paint squirts out. Books About Cows: Are You A Cow by Sandra Boynton Cows! by Becky Wolff Cows and Their Calves by Margaret Hall Cows In The Kitchen by June Crebbin From Cow to Ice Cream by Bertram T. Knight Kailey s Ag-Adventure Milk Comes From a COW? by Dan Yunk Milk: From Cow to Carton by Aliki Sixteen Cows by Lisa Wheeler The Cows s Boy: The Making of a Real Cowboy by Charlotte Caldwell The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons

11 Name date Think about your visit to Daisy s Education Barn. Use your thinking maps to help you write about the cows you saw there. Draw a picture to match your sentences.

12 thinking map/circle map name cows

13 thinking map/tree map name cows can have are

14 Grades: primary Uncle Bob s Curds and Whey Barn Before your visit: *Remind children that we get milk from cows. *Brainstorm foods that we can make from milk (butter, cheese, cottage cheese, cream cheese, yogurt, and ice cream) *Do a taste test by allowing each child to taste a small sample of each of the milk products that were discussed. *Make a class bar graph to show each child s favorite dairy product. (The graph can easily be made with butcher paper or chart paper. The children can write their names on a sticky note and place it on the graph to indicate their choice.) *Write a directed paragraph to explain the bar graph. You may choose to have younger students fill in cloze sentences with the desired information. During your visit: *Watch a cow being milked. Do you remember what can be made from the milk? *Watch Aunt Cindi and Uncle Bob make ice cream, butter, cottage cheese, and cream cheese. Do you remember which one you voted for? After your visit: *Make ice cream. 1. Place two quarts of crushed ice with rock salt in a gallon size plastic bag. The bag should be about half full of the ice and salt mixture. 2. Place ingredients (1 cup milk, 1 tablespoon sugar, ½ teaspoon vanilla extract, ½ teaspoon salt) in a sealed quart size plastic bag. You may want to double bag the mixture. 3. Place the sealed quart sized bag and inside the gallon sized bag with the ice and rock salt. Seal the gallon bag. 4. Gently shake the bags for 20 minutes. When the ice cream is solid, remove it from the bag and eat. *Complete a flow map to show the sequence of making ice cream. *Use the flow map to write the steps of making ice cream. Use the transition words first, next, then and finally. This may be a directed writing assignment for younger students and an independent project for second and third grade. Books About Milk Products Chilly Milly Moo by Fiona Ross Milk to Ice Cream by Inez Snyder The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons