Shady Lane Acres

Today we learned about chicken egg development in our Embrology class! We learned that chicks take 21 days to be fully developed. The mama hen will run her eggs 3x a day. Fertile egg yolks have a bullseye ring around the white dot in the yolk.
Then we followed up the lesson with a fun chicken egg hatching craft! 🐣
We hope to be announcing more classes in the next month or so. If you have any fun class ideas that you think your kids will enjoy, please feel free to message me! 😊

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. -Thomas Berry 🪱 🌿 ☀️

Our homeschool gardening class was a hit!
Students helped me assemble a worm compost bin! 🪱 They had a squealing good time! 😂

We learned about natural fertilizer, composting and the importance of healthy soil in the garden. We also learned about growing green beans and companion planting.

The students planted green beans and marigolds to take home and watch grow! 👀🪴 Followed by a fun, creative craft! 😊

Our next class coming up in May is Embrology, the study of chicken egg development! I hope to see yall in class! 🥚 🐣 🐔

SOURDOUGH 101 CLASS 👩‍🍳🥖

Where: Hardee County Ag Extension Office
When: This Saturday, April 13th. 1pm - 3pm

✨️ Spots are limited to 20 students per class.

Class is $60 per person and includes: 102 year old active sourdough starter, mixing bowl, mixing spoon, banneton proofing basket, a workbook that includes instructions and recipes, and a half loaf of soughdough bread to take home and bake.
Things you will learn include; how to feed your starter, recipes that work, how to make your own sourdough loaf, and the do's and don't of sourdough baking!

To sign up, PayPal with class title and name.
https://www.paypal.me/ShadyLaneAcres

Our Wood Shop class with Off-Season Woodworks was so much FUN!! 🔨 👷‍♂️ Mr. Donny started the lesson with building safety where students learned how to properly use each tool. Then students had a hands on building experience building their own bird house! 🐦 Then they used their creative minds to paint each bird house so unique and beautiful! 🎨 We had so many amazing artists and builders in class today!! 🤩

Due to reasons out of our control we have to reschedule our baking class that was set for 3/19 to 4/9, 1-3pm.

I apologize for this inconvenience.

Our bee class was an overwhelming success!! 🐝 We had 51 homeschool students show up!! 😳🙏🥰 I'm so thankful, it was such a great turn out! However, from here on out, we will start having capacities of 20 students per class so we can fit in the classroom better.

🐝 Here are a few things we learned from the ag extension officer during our lesson today:

1. Honey bees help pollinate and make farmers and plants more productive. 🌻
2. Honey is basically vomit.. 😳
3. There are 3 casts in a hive; the worker, queen, and drone.
4. A queen bee lays 8 eggs per MINUTE! 🤯
5. The queen 🐝 has a stinger but does not use it because it has been modified to lay eggs.
6. The worker bees (female bees) will sting you to protect the queen when they feel you are a threat. They lose their stinger when they stinger you and the bee dies because it's stinger gets stuck in your skin.
7. Humans started farming and domesticating honey bees 10,000 years ago! Christopher Columbus transported them from the region near Turkey and Irag by ship. 🚢
8. Bees can see colors that we cannot see. They have thousands of eyes compounded into their eyes on their face.
9. Bees have a 3rd eye that faces the sun, this eye absorbs energy from the sun to guide the bee like GPS, so the bee understands where it is.
10. They use their antennas to communicate.

And a bonus fact, bees are from the fly family! 🪰 🐝 🪰 🐝

I hope everyone enjoyed class today! ☺️

Sign up for our upcoming classes, registration will be closing soon!

To register, simply find the event on our events page and click on the one you would like to join, follow the registration instructions in the event.

I hope to see you all in class! 😊

To find out more information and to register for a class please go to our events page, and find the class you're interested in. To sign your child up, follow the paypal link in the event to purchase their ticket. Please include their name, age, and class name you are purchasing for.

I hope to see you all in class!! 😁