Bio-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 1, 1995
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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.
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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.
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