Teacher’s tips

Level of education: Elementary School - Early Childhood Education

Age: 04 to 08 years old

The farm is a place where children learn all about farming, how much work and planning goes into running a farm, and how farms are important to our daily lives. In addition, they learn where our food comes from, the importance of caring for plants and animals. For older kids, a day spent on the farm is living proof that hard work pays off. Signs are everywhere; from the growing animals to the thriving fields. This book is a great opportunity for you to work on this topic.

Learner outcomes

Understand the difference between wild animals and domestic animals; Understand the importance of agriculture; Understanding where our food comes from; Develop text reading and interpretation; Understand the use of the alphabet in the construction of words; Expand vocabulary; Stimulate the imagination; Stimulate creativity; Participate in different moments of reading; Develop attentive listening to understand texts; Develop and improve oral and written language; Read different types of short stories;

Teachers’ goals

Teach children about caring for plants and animals; Work on reading and text interpretation skills; Provide, in a playful and creative way, the progress in the reading and writing process of children; Expand the class's repertoire of letters and words; Offer the game as a didactic resource to fix the content worked in the classroom; Awaken the habit of listening and feeling pleasure in situations involving reading; Provide contact with texts of literary quality;

Suggestions of approaches for the teacher

(Suggestion 1) Ask students to make a mural about the difference between wild animals, domestic animals and exotic animals. The mural must contain several figures and the definition of each one of them;

(Suggestion 2) Ask the students to make a drawing or collages of the products that come from the farm;

(Suggestion 3) Ask students to write the importance of caring for plants and animals to obtain quality food;

(Suggestion 4) Ask students to do a research on the difference between organic and processed foods;

(Suggestion 5) Have a picnic after carrying out the activities on the subject;

(Suggestion 6) Ask students to make a comic strip whose main theme involves day-to-day life on the farm.

More about it

Reasons why children need contact with the countryside:

• Farming teaches children where their food comes from

• Farming teaches children responsibility: Everything raised or grown on a farm is up to the farmer. Daily care for animals and plants is essential for the creation and production of a quality, healthy and delicious product.

• Farming teaches kids to care for animals: Proper care for animals is essential to creating quality food. Animals need food, shelter to grow up healthy and happy.

• Farming teaches children a greater appreciation for food: Spending a day, a week or a lifetime on the farm will change the way you look at food. Food becomes a reward, not just something that comes from a grocery store.

• Farming teaches children the cycle of life: One of the most difficult aspects of farming is the fact that where there are live animals, there are dead animals.

• Farming teaches children that hard work brings sweet rewards.

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