Farm Days

On Mondays each week, Isabella visits a farm with her class. Most of their time at the farm is spent harvesting wheat by hand. Isabella joined in time for threshing. Each child had made their own thresher - a large, thick stick with leather strapping at the end. The first few trips to the farm, the children stood in circles and took turns whacking it with their threshing sticks. The class has now moved on to cleaning and sorting the wheat, and is about to begin grinding. Once the flour is made, they will bake bread for the school.

This last week, Isabella's homework for Monday was to sort a bag of wheat. She was able to enlist the help of Xavier as well.