Farm to School Programs

http://www.betterschoolfood.org/what_you_can_do/farm_to_school.cfm

Kid's Zone: Activities for Teachers and Students

http://www.agclassroom.org/kids/farm.htm

http://www.agclassroom.org/kids/index.htm

Farms, Food, and Fun

http://www.farmsfoodfun.com/Default.aspx

Learn great things while chewing on something from the farm!

Music In The Ag Classroom

Are you interested in using brain-based learning in your classroom.  Differentiated education is the key to success for so many students, but it's the key to having fun and retaining information in our class.  Our classroom uses music to learn concepts in all different curriculum areas. We learn and kinds of writing and grammar tricks with songs. We sing about the Titanic, The Dirty Thirties, and King Tut.   In science we sing to learn about the planets, oceans, cells, bones, etc... Math is great. Because of our songs, students are able to learn more difficult concepts with ease and greater retension. We sing about place value, adding and multiplying fractions, decimals, etc...The students love it and there is research to back up the millions of reason why you should add music in your teaching.

Music in The Ag Classroom is a cultimation of nearly 100 songs that we sing about agriculture and related subjects.  We sing about where food comes from, farming, eating healthy foods, dirt, and planting gardens.  We sing about bugs and where crops grow.  We sing about farms on a mountain side and we sing about the watercycle.   If you're in Baltimore, Maryland in June of 2010, stop by the national conference "Agriculture In the Classroom" and join us for a song.

Remember, when a child is singing words off a paper, they are reading...this is an awesome way to ignite students' reading and writing skills.

"Be Healthy ~ Stay Healthy Day" Set

Our date is set!  Our school will be holding a "Be Healthy~Stay Healthy Day" will be having seminars and activities for all students preschool through fifth grade this spring.  Students will be learning to read labels, participate in activities, and learn about making healthy choices in the future regarding physical activities and eating healthy.  Our healthy food booth is sure to a great hit! Yum!  Lots of fruits and vegetables will be here to sample.

Students Publish "AG" Books

Our class is all excited about "ag".   We have written and illustrated ag books, and we've had them published. (hard covers, author's name on the spine, and keepsakes we'll enjoy for years)    We wrote about so many different topics. Natasha wrote about farms, Isaac and Joe M. wrote about bugs.  Brayden and Joe B. wrote about plants.   Mackenzie, Haley, and Isabel wrote about the food pyramid.  Daniel's book is about the trials and tribulations in agriculture.  August wrote about 'the dirty thirties' and how agriculture effected their lives for ten years.  

These books are beautiful hard cover books and each student in our third grade -fifth grade class gets the first copy at NO COST to them.   This was our first year participating in this wonderful writing project.  email me for more information at www.musicmovesmyclassroom@yahoo.com

American Farm

http://www.myamericanfarm.org/

Great concepts to learn in these wonderful areas:   math, science, language arts, and social studies... while learning about the American farms.