~Quick & Easy Chicken Noodle Soup~

This is a quick and easy chicken noodle soup recipe, kid approved:)

~2c. Cooked & chopped chicken breast.

~8c. Vegetable broth

~3 Celery stalks, chopped small

~1c Onion, chopped small

~2c. Baby carrots, chopped in half

~3 cups dry noodles

~1/2tsp. salt

~ Pinch of pepper

~1 clove garlic or 1/2tsp. minced

~Pinch of thyme 

Combine broth and carrots into a large pot. Boil for 10min. Add all other ingredients. Return to a boil until noodles are done. I cook until noodles are al dente. Remove from heat to cool. I used all organic ingredients and precooked/hormone free grilled chicken, but soup is so easy to customize:)

~What's your Name?~

Not only does painting teach children creativity but it also teaches them to have an open mind. This craft stimulates a child in every way possible. From teaching colors, letters in the alphabet, coordination, and self expression. Painting is the best way to gain a life long appreciation for art and besides....

I love watching kids paint!

Decision making skills....where to paint and what color? Letter recognition....

Miles sees "His letter M"

By spinning the poster board, it gives more options for painting. Also helps cover all the white areas because well.....

that's our goal:)

Each day we add more paint and different colors. 

We gently remove the tape at the end of the week after all the paint is dry. I discovered that the younger ones enjoyed playing with the sticky tape more than helping. This is great sensory play so I will definitely be incorporating tape into our next project!

Pride....

What a great craft to improve Self Esteem:)

~Jordan's First Week~

We welcome Jordan this week. She is a farm girl at heart, and loves helping with morning chores at farm school🙂

  

Each morning she plays and 

waits for her friends to arrive. 

After Morning Tea Jordan sit with Kylie & Miles 

to do art.

Making faces at Mrs. Ty during potty time😯 

Dressing up for a trail ride....

Letting Patches out to play. She is such a little helper...

Go to sleep, go to sleep
Go to sleep little children

When you wake, right away
On the pretty little horses
Black and bay
Sorrel and gray
Whole heap of little horses

Go to sleep, go to sleep
Go to sleep little children

Water play with friends....eerrrr....pacas😂

Jordan spent the week getting to know our daily routines 

transitions and songs. She has adjusted well and loves story time and relaxing after lunch😉

Nature Bracelets

These nature bracelets are super easy to do and the kids love them. They get so excited when they find something pretty for their bracelet.

Supplies needed:

- Duct tape  (any color)

- Clear plastic wrap

- Hole punch

- Ribbon (any color)

Cut duct tape to wrist size. This can be fitted, as it will not have to slide over the hand when finished.There is a tutorial online to do these without hole punching and ribbon. You just tape around the arm and leave enough space to slip over the hand; but they remain very loose on the child's arm. 

Wrap around child's wrist inside out (sticky side up)

Go on a nature walk and let the children explore!

Anything can become art, if something doesn't fit, pull it a part and apply them in pieces. This is a good way to teach patterns, colors textures etc.

After your nature walk, lay all bracelets on a flat clean surface. Cover tightly with clear plastic wrap and and roll flat with rolling pin. Then trim edges.

Apply two holes with hole punch to each end.

Add ribbon and your finished!

The kiddos were so proud:)

 

These actually last a long time! The flowers kept their color even after a month! 

Pollywogs & Baby Frogs!

This year when I took the cover off of our pool I 

discovered it was full of tadpoles. I mean hundreds!!

Being the animal lover that I am, I could not see draining the pool and killing all of these innocent baby frogs:( 

So I decided to take advantage of this opportunity and this week we will learn about tadpoles!!!

The kids helped fill an old tub 

so we could "SAVE THE POLLYWOGS"

Project SAVE THE POLLYWOGS is underway!!

Here is one of the little guys almost completely developed.

Miles was very excited to help as I scooped each 

tadpole out (one by one) he ran over to dump them into the tub.

Kylie took her time and watched them swim in the bucket.

She had little conversations with each one.😁

  

 So this definitely took a while......

like the whole week!

Later we added limbs and leaves to create shade and 

this will also give the baby frogs and way out of the 

tub once fully developed. 

 We spent the week talking about development,

comparing and doing coloring pages.🐸

A week well spent...the kiddos learned a lot and 

I got my pool back!!!!!

Iggy the Piggy

The farm school kiddos could not wait to meet our baby pig, Iggy!

They spent the week decorating their favorite color pig.

Baby feeding, both cute and messy!!

They also discovered walking a pig is not always easy....

We will post more on Iggy later in our blog when she is 

old enough to be outside and have her own space. For now we will 

get lots of piggy kisses and continue her training.  

Busy Busy BUGS!!!

Good bugs....bad bugs....fuzzy bugs....and buzzy bugs. 

Any kind of bug the kiddos want to talk about; is what we will focus on this week. Lately the kiddos have been very dramatic about bugs, especially ants. Maybe after we do some exploring they won't be so fearful. 

After reading books and many discussions we did face paintings of our favorite bugs:)

 Now its time to explore!

ANTS!!!!!

The ants go marching one by one,
Hurrah, hurrah.
The ants go marching one by one,
Hurrah, hurrah.
The ants go marching one by one,
The little one stops to suck his thumb,
And they all go marching down
Into the ground to get out of the rain,
BOOM!  BOOM!  BOOM!

After a few minutes of searching

we find a lady bug.

and name her....

Lady;)

At the end of the week we became bugs ourselves...

GOOD bugs of course;)