At home learning | Sep 24, 2020

At Home Learning Sept 28

This week we are wondering "Do brown cows make chocolate milk?"

Welcome to our At Home Learning Page! Here we have agriculture and farming book suggestions and activities you can do at home. These activities do not build on each other and can be done in any order.

September is National Fruits and Veggies Month so we are focusing on finding some new favorites!

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Research what fruits and vegetables grow in your state. Visit a local farmers market and pick out some of your favorite fruits and veggies. Then make a fun salad! Even savory salads with lettuce can have some fruit! Try adding strawberries, blueberries or even peaches to your tossed salad! Use kid friendly search engine https://www.kiddle.co/ to help!

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Tomato - fruit? vegetable? Find out more about this mysterious food and learn how they grow

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Recommended reading!
The Fruit We Eat by Gail Gibbons
Vegetables by Gail Gibbons
Try It! by Mara Rockliff
The Very Oldest Pear Tree by Nancy Sanders
Grandpa’s Garden by Stella Fry
Sylvia's Spinach by Katherine Pryor
Apple Orchard Riddle by Margaret McNamara
Tops and Bottoms (This one has talking animals which we do not normally recommend, but it is a book that can easily be found at a library, so we have included it) by Janet Stevens
Right This Very Minute by Lisl H. Detlefsen
A Berry Good Project by Rick Henningfeld

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Lessons from Ag in the Classroom!
FoodMASTER:  Fruits grades 3-5
Fruit & Vegetable Bingo grades K-2
FoodMASTER: Vegetables grades 3-5

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Bonus! September is also National Honey Month!

Purple Plow Puzzler Bee in the Kitchen has students create a recipe using honey.

Check out the book Honeybee by Candace Flemming

And don't forget the Bee Ag Mag!

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Looking for the perfect gift but not sure what to pick?

An American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture Store gift card lets your loved ones choose their favorite ag literacy items!