Smith's Corner Farm School

Here is our daily schedule for our 2021 Fall sections:
https://www.namaaastegoatyoga.com/farm-school-schedules

Here are our lesson topics for Tuesdays this Fall 2021:
https://www.namaaastegoatyoga.com/lesson-topics

Our Fall 2021 offerings are up! We are offering 2 12-week sections this Fall! Tuesday AM or PM. Please use the link below for more information! https://www.namaaastegoatyoga.com/smith-s-corner-farm-school

Well, we have been BUUUUSSYYYYY! Whew! Welcoming the new baby goats, chicks, butterflies, tadpoles, kittens and ducklings this past spring was a whirlwind! Here are some pics (in no particular order) of some of our activities! We are planning now for the Fall/Winter 2021/2022! This year's lessons will be available again next year (in case you missed it!) for a once-a-week offering! Please like/share our page to stay in the loop!

Turtles and frogs and toads, oh my! Week 3 wrap up!

Week Two!

Clementine greeted our little learners with a smile this morning! 🤣

Just a sneak peek of our first week! Our little learners learned all about farm animals for science this week, created cave art paintings and learned about communities for social studies!

Here at the farm we turn your traditional story time upside down making learning relevant, engaging, and fun by reading to our goats!

It must be something about their deep sighs, the warm snuggles, or even just a second set of eyes keeping watch on the world, animals connect people to each other and this bond strengthens their ability to work together. Our baby and miniature goats allow children to focus on the goats instead of feeling self-conscious about their reading.

One of the most important aspects of facilitating reading skill development is motivating a child to engage in reading. As children love interacting with our goats, a connection that also teaches them about kindness and empathy, it makes learning and reading joyful.

This program utilizes our highly socialized and friendly miniature goats to help kids improve their reading and communication skills and also teaches them to love books and reading increasing their confidence, lending itself to continued literacy improvements.

Children will enjoy a read aloud story, then will be assisted in choosing their grade/level appropriate books to read to our goats. As reading to goats progresses, a PA certified teacher will support and help students with guided reading.
Guided reading is an instructional approach that involves a teacher working with a small group of readers. The teacher provides support, coaching the learners as they use problem-solving strategies to read the text. Each session, the teacher will offer the students and parents instructional support and take home tips on how to further help their children. The ultimate goal is independent reading.

This program is multi-age designed for emerging readers aged 4 through to fluent readers age 9.

Parents’ attendance is mandatory for this program.

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