Our Trip to Westham Island Farms

Today's trip was to a farm out in Ladner!  The farm is called Westham Island Herb Farm.  They have animals on the farm but they also grow all kinds of plants.
When we arrived, Farmer Sharon greeted us and showed us around her farm.  It has been in her family for 100 years now!

This is a Scottish Highland cow.  Look at her hair!

Sharon feeding the donkey and the goat.

The baby kids getting some milk from mom!  Ahh!  They are so cute!!

After visiting the animals, we climbed onto the back of the pick up truck for a ride out to the strawberry field!!  It was the first riding in the back of a truck for most of us!  It was SO EXCITING!!

As we drove up to the field we could see the RED RIPE STRAWBERRIES peeking out from under the leaves!!

Everyone jumped out of the truck and went straight to work, filling our baskets!!

There were so many little berries ready for picking!!

It didn't take very long to fill our baskets.

Trying to find a few more berries.

Here are all the berries we picked!!

We can't wait to take them home to show our families!

After a "long day's work", picking berries...

...we all needed a snack and a rest!  Then we climbed back onto our bus and headed back to school!

Cooking with Growing Chefs

We had another lesson today with Growing Chefs...we made a stir fry!!!  First we talked about our classroom garden and all the things that have happened since our last lesson.  The beans and snow peas were ready to harvest!  Then we talked about how to use knives safely..."claw and saw"!  Finally, we were ready to chop up all the vegetables!

Look at all the vegetables that we are putting into the stir fry~

We all got down to chopping!  Everyone learned how 

to use a knife safely.  We worked together and cut 

up all the vegetables.

We had a bowl ready for all the vegetable scraps.  They are going into the compost so that we can feed our gardens too.

Everyone took a turn to add vegetables to our stir fry.  The room was smelling SO GOOD!!

Finally the stir fry is ready!  We ALL enjoyed it!  YUMMY!!

Spelling List "Z" ( 26)

Here are the words for this week...


stick
trick
quick
back
pack
zoo
root
cook
look
looked


Can you see the spelling pattern for the words this week? 
We noticed that the "K" sound at the end of many words is spelled "-ck".  We also noticed "oo" makes two different sounds!  Tricky!!

Our Trip To Eagle Acres Farm

What a day we had at the dairy farm!  Here are two stories written by a couple of our students.  They will give you a good idea of what we all thought of this experience...

"Oh my gosh!  You can't belive it!  If you never been to a dairy farm this is the right story for you!  And if you guessed this story is about a dairy farm... guess what...this story is more!  Alot more!!! I went to a farm called...Eagle Acres.  Eagle Acres is more than what it sounds like!  It's fun!  It's peaceful!  It's wonderful!  There was a farmer named Brian.  He had a wife named Erin, too.  The teached us how to milk a cow!  And guess what...I did it!  The cow I milked was named Bling.  There was a cow that can give 18.5 litres of milk in just 5 minutes!  Isn't that amazing?!!!? I know, right?!  One time, Brian gave us milk bottles.  And guess what?  All the baby goats were running and charging at us!  You want to go now?  I bet you do!

And...another impression of our day...

"Yesterday we went to the ...farm!  It's name was Eagle Acres farm.  We went in the early morning.  When we just got there we was a black spotted dog with white on it.  There were a guy and his name was Brian and there is a girl name Erin.  They told us the rules and we went to the thedther.  they showed us milking a cow but not with your hands they used a machine.  they put it undet it's tits and it was working.  It only takes 5 mins.  When it finish we still was in the thedther.  They told us how to milk a cow and finaly it was finish next we milt the cow. Bit we had to wait in line.  When it was finaly my turn I was too too happy.  First I pet the cow and I milked it.  It's tits were super warm.  It was a little furry.  Next we went and saw the animals.  We fead the cows and we play with the goats then we sat down on hay.  Brian gived us milk he open the goat pen and they came rushing super quick.  They sicked all the milk.  We gotta explore the place.  the place was huge!!  I went to see and play with the goat.  I liked the black spotted one that one was so adorabol!  Next I thot I would fed the cows again. The cows havs very fat and super long tonugs.  I really didn't know there were kittens.  The kittens weren't that big.  They were tiny.  That was the first time I'd feel a kitten!!  2nd last I went to the potbelly pig.  It's name is Hercules the potbelly pig was crusty and fat. The very last thing I did was play with the goats.  the very last is I dirnk chocoloate milk net we ate luch.  Finally we had a fres ice cream to end the day."

Welcome to Eagle Acres!

Sophie the dog greeted us as we got off the bus!

Our 1st "chore" on the farm was to make butter! We all took turns shaking the bottle of cream.

With everyone helping, the cream quickly turned into butter!  The liquid left over is called "buttermilk".  We didn't eat the butter - we left it for Sophie and the cats to enjoy!

The cows come in and get hooked up onto the milking machines.

This is R2D2..the robot that milks the cows!  

Here is Bling, patiently waiting for all of us to milk her!  She is enjoying some treats (grains and seeds).

And the milking begins!

Giving Bling a nice "pat".  Her tummy is SO warm!

Here is Bling!

After milking the cow, we went onto our next chore which was to feed the animals!

Sam, the baby calf is only 9 days old!

Meet Hercules, the Potbelly pig!

Feeding the baby goats was SO much fun!

The kittens with their mommy.

A Trip To Writers' Exchange

Today our whole class had a a chance to get a taste of what it is like at the Writers' Exchange Program.  We were invited by Jennifer of Writers' Exchange to come down and do some writing together.  She arranged for 5 volunteers to come help us!

Jennifer and the other adults came and walked us over to their "place".  It was just 3 blocks away on Hastings Street.

When we arrived, everyone was SO excited.  Jennifer gave us a few minutes to walk around and explore.  Some of our classmates go to Writers' Exchange after school so they were our expert tour guides!

Do you know what these are???  They are typewriters.  People used these to write before computers!

After looking around, we finally got together in our groups for a game of mini golf!  You might be wondering..."What does mini golf have to do with writing?"

Well in this game, you had to add the number of strokes it took your team to get their balls into the holes.  Then the total score told you what characters and settings and things you had to include in your stories...which we were going to write next!

It is not easy getting the ball into the little hole!

Each hole had a book theme.  Do you know what book these 2 characters are from??

This team is at the "Green Eggs and Ham" hole.  I wonder what their score was??

The writing begins!

The ideas are coming fast!

Looking at books for some ideas!

Everyone worked so hard.

We illustrate our stories too.

Finally our stories were done.  The next part was very exciting!  We got to use a REAL microphone to read our stories to the class.  Then, before we knew it...the trip was over and we had to go back to school!

We want to thank Jennifer for inviting us to Writers' Exchange and for planning such a clever writing activity.  AND we want to thank Jackie, Shelagh, Haley, Mariah and Stacey for taking time out of their busy day to come help us and make writing so much FUN!!

THANK YOU WRITERS' EXCHANGE!!

PIGS! PIGS! PIGS!

Today we finally got to finish making our pigs.  We added the tails and ears...

And here they are...

Do you know what a group of pigs is called?  A group of young pigs is called "a drift" or "a drove" or " a litter".  A group of older pigs is called a "sounder"! 

The pigs went home today! 

List ''Y'' (25)

Here are the words of the week.


tree
trip
train
say
said
hop
stop
stopped
number
one


Don't forget your spelling rules.