Field Trips 

• Students read books to our horses. This offers a calming and enriching experience to practice reading skills, provides a non-judgemental environment to build confidence, empathy, and reading fluency. Animal and farm animal themed books can be provided, or bring your own. 

• Students paint horses' bodies, exploring a new surface texture and canvas. Unleash art skills in this fantastic animal assisted activity. 

• Students meet our animals in the round pen and Education Center. Students can interact and explore the animals hands-on, with touching, safely handling, feeding, and observing. 

• Students take a hayride down to the back field to meet our cows and goats. 

• Students can eat lunch outside, or inside the arena, dependent on weather. 

• 2.5 hours 

• $15 per student 

Choose three of the following activities: 

• Students count around the barn, recording and compare quantities of equipment, materials, animals, and more. 

• Students go on a shape hunt around the barn, finding examples of 2D and 3D shapes in real life. 

• Students measure and record data of animal height and length using various materials, such as popsicle sticks, counting cubes, paint brushes, pencils, and more. 

• Students can observe, organize, and represent data of animals and their measurable characteristics. 

• Students weigh, compare, and record data of objects and supplies around the farm, using various materials, such as pennies, counting cubes, counting bears, and more. 

• Students can experiment with light waves, testing the transparency of objects and supplies around the farm through a beam of light. 

• Students meet our animals in the round pen and Education Center. Students can interact and explore the animals hands-on, with touching, safely handling, feeding, and observing. 

• Students can explore how plants and animals depend on each other for survival through observing animals in their environments and learn how each is connected through a sensory walk around the property, while tapping into each of our five senses. 

• Students can eat lunch outside, or inside the arena, dependent on weather. 

• 2.5 hours 

• $15 per student 

• Write a first person narrative from an animal's perspective. Students can interact with animals to gather sensory and behavioral details, complete a sensory chart, choose a writing prompt, and work with a partner to write a story through an animal's eyes using empathy and imagination. 

• Create a living diagram. Hands-on labeling a horse's body with newly acquired vocabulary words. Students will also generate descriptive adjectives and sensory details to label on the horse. 

• Storytelling. Students are presented with a story-bag full of materials from around the barn. Students choose, think, imagine, and create a descriptive story with a partner to share with the group. 

• Hands-on, open exploration and engagement in the round pen with our animals. This may include observing, touching, safely handling, and feeding animals. 

• Sensory nature walk. Students can observe animals in their environments and during a sensory walk around the property, while tapping into each of our five senses, and recording what they notice. 

• Students can eat lunch outside, or inside the arena, dependent on weather. 

• 2.5 hours 

• $15 per student 

• Feeding time fractions! Students create, explore, and play with real feeding fractions in various engaging ways, such as with feed buckets, food, and egg cartons. 

• Count and measure. Students measure animals, enclosures, and various things around the barn. Students can measure in different units and convert measurements. 

• What do farm animals need to survive? Students observe animals and their needs, touch and interact, record traits and behaviors, and think about what these animals need to survive and thrive in their environment. Hands-on, open exploration and engagement in the round pen with our animals. This may include observing, touching, safely handling, and feeding animals. 

• Animal adaptations. Students build an animal adaptation with recycled parts and materials and then test it to see if is a productive adaptation. Adaptations such as constructing a "beak" to scoop food or water or "tail" that helps an animal balance. 

• Sensory nature walk. Students can observe animals in their environments and during a sensory walk around the property, while tapping into each of our five senses, and recording what they notice. 

• Students can eat lunch outside, or inside the arena, dependent on weather. 

• 2.5 hours 

• $15 per student