On the Farm

This week Play School is filled with barns, windmills and tractors as we visit the farm and give children a sense of the farming lifestyle! We look at the different kinds of work that needs to be done on a farm, as well as food crops, conservation of water and caring for animals. On Monday we are visited by a mother duck and her ducklings and observe them at play. Every day this week, Farmer Big Ted rides his tractor and we sing Down on the Farm. The tractor is an essential part of farm machinery and each day we see it used in a different way - a trailer is attached and feed for animals and the harvest is transported, a plough is used and seeds planted and an auger is attached to dig a hole for a fence post. Through the windows we gain insight into life on an outback station, an alpaca farm, a potato crop, sheep shearing, a sheepdog rounding up sheep and produce being displayed for an agricultural show.