At the Farm

Our count down is finally over! Last Wednesday, was our visit at Valleyview Little Animal Farm.  The children were very excited to see the farm animals and to spend a day outside playing.  On our way to the farm, we looked though the bus windows and noticed the changes in our surrounding.  Previously, we asked the children to describe what they could see in a city by looking at pictures of the city of Ottawa.  Now, we wanted the children to tell us what they could see outside our suburbs, for example more of a country setting.  At the farm the children did many fun activities.  Here are pictures of what they did:

Taking the bus to the farm.

Riding the train.

Feeding small goats.

Feeding big goats.

Petting animals.

Watching a video about Valleyview Little Animals Farm

Playing on the tractor.

Playing on the tire swing.

Having fun on the many play structures.

When we got back to class, we asked the children to name animals they had seen at the farm in French.  Here is our list:

J'ai vu...
des chèvres (boucs)
un cochon
des perroquets
des poules
un coq
des canards
des chevaux
un lapin
des chevreuils
des faons
des paons
des moutons

We did not see any "chat, chien".


We had the children compared city land and country land.  By comparing their city to the country, we want the children to "develop an awareness of ways in which people adapts to the places in which they live" (The Full-Day Early Learning - Kindergarten Program expectation). 

City	Country
Transportation: buses, subway, cars, airplanes, trains	Transportation: cars, trains
More people live in a city.	Less people live in the country.
Tall buildings, skyscrapers, shopping malls	Stores
Many houses everywhere (suburbs)	Lots of fields, less houses
Walk on sidewalks	Walk on gravel along the pavement or walker`s path along the pavement
Houses include: Single home, townhouse, apartment building	Single homes
Dogs and cats inside	Farm animals outside

 Giuliana mentioned that she was born in Ottawa.  We asked the children in there was anyone born in another country than Canada.  we have a few of our friends outside our country.

Folu - Nigeria

Ella - Kuwait

Ivy - China

Tammy - Israel

This week, we will look at pictures of those countries to compare with our country Canada.