Our Little Farm

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Our PTO invested in several fruit trees and planted them around the campus. These trees include Mangos, Peaches, Loquats, Cumquats, Jujube, Apples,  Mulberries, Lemons, Oranges, Asian pears and more.

Our students have an opportunity to watch these fruit trees grow by the day. They get hands on experience observing and studying the growth cycle of these plants and what it takes to farm these plants. When the fruit ripen they enjoy eating the fruits they watched grow.

Our Biology class hatched its own eggs and got a few chicks to start our farm.

The PTO purchased a baby sheep to add to the farm.

Our talented parents made a beautiful chicken coop. One parent donated two birds and a beautiful cage.

The students get to watch all the animals and build relationships with the farm animals. Many love to go look for the eggs every day.

 In the summer we added a white male sheep to the farm. In October we started seeing the female sheep’s belly getting bigger by the day.  Sure enough Browne, as the students named her,  was pregnant. On January first at 1:05 PM Browne gave birth to two beautiful babies.  One of white and one black with one white leg and a white tail. The Biology class studied the genetics of color and the color possibilities of the future grand babies. Students chose names for the babies in a school wide contest. Oreos and Marshmallows!

The students sing for the animals in different languages. They observe the animals and come tell us stories on how the sheep looks after the chicken and how these animals move around as a family.

The students feed the animals and they learned that the sheep love watermelon skin, vegetables, and some kinds of bread. The chickens eat almost anything.   The sheep go around and eat all of the weeds in the cracks of the asphalt.

Students also learned that animals need health care and could get sick so they are very careful when they are around them.

This has been a great experience and another wonderful team building tool. Teachers used  farm exercises all subjects including Math, English, Science, History, Religion, and Arabic!

It is a beautiful coexistence between the animals, plants, and humans.  The students talk about how we all need each other and should take care of each other!