There is a school where children use pumpkins to learn about colors and counting. They learn about 1 by planting seeds 30 centimeters apart. Interesting? Yes, that's the 2 school. For students at this school in Hamilton, Virginia, the classroom is 3 every day. Jaclyn Jenkins is a founder of the school. The 4 for a school like this started after Jenkins and her husband Kenny bought a farm shortly after their marriage. The Farm School is a 5 –a place for three and four-year-olds to learn and play.
Teacher Alison Huff says The Farm School gives its students more of a hands-on learning 6. Children can use everything a 7 preschool uses, but out in the garden. In addition to planting vegetables and fruits, youngsters help prepare food and 8 afterward. The school teaches children to cook using the food they have grown. They can 9 what they have in the garden 10 going to the grocery store and buying it. Besides, the preschoolers also learn words in languages other than English. Huff speaks 11 in both English and Spanish. Her assistant speaks French and Arabic.12, a 3-year-old in her class speaks four different languages.
What's more, Farm animals are also playing an important part in the education program. The youngsters learn about a 13 animal every month. Two months ago, the animal they learnt was a cow. They get to see what the cow is like, and we learn what cows eat. We use little gloves and try to 14 a cow. Using the milk from their work, we make yogurt.
More and more families 15 The Farm School. Their children come home with new experiences, new knowledge and sometimes a few vegetables they plant by themselves. So this kind of school is getting more and more popular!
