Bio-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 1, 1995 ,\\l JOYCE BUPP York Co. Correspondent FAWN GROVE (Yoik County) “How many of you like to eat?” was a question recently asked the fourth graders at the Fawn Grove Elementary School. Every student shot a hand up in the air. Most of the hands went up again when the question was asked how many of the students and their families grew food in gardens at home. But only a few hands waved in the air when visit ing speaker Gail McPherson asked how many lived on farms where *0 at Fawn Grove Elementary School will learn more about agriculture with “The Farming Game” given by Gail McPherson when she visited their classes for National Agriculture Week. agt -<i gu ..ks with fourth graders at Fawn Grove Elementary School about modern farming methods. Fawn Grovt radars donnad hat* to l*am about tha many Job* a farmar must id s * Fourth Graders Get Ag Day Lesson people raised food for others as their way of making a living. Fawn Grove Elementary School is located in a rural com munity, but only a few of the 56 children in the two fourth-grade classes live on farms. So Mrs. Hash and Ms. Whitaker, the fourth-grade teachers, invited a farmer, Gail McPherson, to visit with their class during National Agriculture Week. Gail McPherson and her hus band and family raise several hundred acres of orchard and grain crops just a few miles from Jlmi Nomikos reads a radio-spot announcement about agriculture to his fourth grade classmates at Fawn Grove Elementary School. Listening also are his teacher, Mrs. Hash, at right, and farmer Gall McPherson. the school. They also operate a land improvement business for building soil conservation improvement practices, like hill side terraces and ponds. Several of the fourth-grade stu dents dressed up with hats Gail McPherson brought along to show some of the many different kinds of jobs a farmer might do. Included in her hat show were the traditional baseball-style “farm cap,” a beekeepers hat with net to protect against stings to the face, a hard-hat with ear protection against noise, a floppy straw hat that could protect against the sun while harvesting benies and a hat and plastic gloves to be used for safety when working with crop protection materials. Students also talked with Gail McPherson about how wooded areas and fcnccrows on farms supply cover and homes for many types of wildlife. They passed through the classroom a series of large, colored pictures showing soil conservation methods which help keep the water clean and pre vent ersoion. ortie Mrs. McPherson told the stu- agriculture, dents about some different uses So that the fourth-grade classes for farm crops, like newspaper ink can continue to leant about agn made from soybeans. She culture, Gail McPherson gave explained another interesting pro- them the gift of “Hie Farming duct, made from com, which is Game.” This game is similar to used to melt ice on highways dur- monopoly, and players can arm, ing the winter and is more friendly buy and sell land, crops and to the environment than salt pro- machinery, take chances on the ducts which have been used in the weather and either be profitable or past. The classes also talked about lose money, depending on their the many careers that are related to skill and the luck of the game. Attention, Kids Kids, surprise your mother, that also, father, grandma or grandpa, by Send your letters, stories, photo sending us a little write up about s> pictures to Lou Ann Good, them. If you have a photo, please Farming, P.O. Box 609, include one with the story. If you E phrata, 17522. prefer to draw a picture, you may RECYCLING CONNECTIONS ReCyde Draw lines connecting the pictures of recyclables on the left with the items on the right which are things they can be made into. For Example: The line drawn in below shows that old papers can be made into boxes. Hint: Each of the left side recyclables may have more than one line. W tA »> cap 6 T TKnh
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