Why I Want to Become a Farmer

by Addy, age 6

I want to be a farmer because my favorite part is going in the pens and helping my Uncle Duane to feed the calves. I also would like to be a farmer because I like nature and I think if I were a farmer I’d be around nature a lot.

I like to be a farmer, too, because you get to decide how much food your animals will eat and without getting too much or getting not enough.

I would like to be possibly a maple syrup farmer or a dairy farmer. My Grandma and Grandpa B. do maple syrup and my Grandma and Grandpa S. do dairy farming.

I have been practicing a lot. I am in 4-H and I also have some little corn plants by my turtle at home. I have been raising a bunny, which is really good practice, and I am going to move into the country and in the early spring help my B. grandparents with the maple syrup. I think when you’re making maple syrup it smells really good in the air.

I think that being a dairy farmer, the barn always smells good with manure. I have smelled when people are harvesting sugar beets, and I think it smells really good, but it doesn’t smell as good as fresh sugar beets. I’ve eaten a sugar beet before. They taste really good and crunchy.

I am going to go to Michigan State to be a farmer.

I would also like to be an astronaut. I think if there is any life at all up there, that I will be one of the first ones to discover it.

I am independent. Even though I am a girl, I would like to be a farmer.

Addy on the Horses Count web site

Thanks to Aunt Nini's work with the Horses Count in Michigan project, Addy's picture and short story are on this web site, also copied below:

http://www.horsescountinmichigan.com/YourHorseCounts/tabid/56/Default.aspx

"I don’t have my own horse, but I rode Sam for my sixth birthday. Horses are fun to ride and fun to look at and fun to pet. They’re good animals. I like all animals."

Butterflies

by Addy

A butterfly is like
a beauty-fly, a beauty-fly.

Oh butterfly, oh butterfly,
won’t you come and play with me?
Now go call all the butterflies you know;
call all monarchs, call all painted ladies,
call all swallowtails, call all leafwings.

And tell them to come play with me too.
I will not hurt you, don’t worry.

I would like to see how beautiful they are,
see all kinds.

I love butterflies.
I love all kinds of nature too.

The Ants in Pants Dance

by Addy

There once were these pants,
legs of ants,
feet of ants,
that always did the ants-in-pants dance.




Inspired by reading "Dancing Pants" by Shel Silverstein.

Addy and Dori

This is me and Dori. We made necklaces out of paperclips. We learned that each paperclip is one unit.

Note from Mom: Hey, who has my name for Christmas? I could use a new box of paperclips. This project took them all and now the girls don't want to give them back. We were doing a unit on measurement in our Singapore Primary Mathematics 1A book. We learned about measuring by household units, then progressed to standard measuring tools such as a ruler. And then we made paperclip jewelry. Why not?

Addy makes words

This is me, Addy. I am building compound words out of the cards that Mama wrote — the beginning and the ending.

Note from Mom: We use Explode the Code for our phonics learning. We're on Book 4. Addy was bored with the worksheets that day, so I turned the same thing into something a little more interesting.

Addy finishes books

I finished Homer Price. After that, we read Mr. Popper's Penguins. Now we're on Mountain Born.

I would recommend Homer Price to a kid who likes to read about adventures. I would recommend Mr. Popper's Penguins to a kid who likes to read about penguins.

Homer Price is a kid who is good at building TVs and saving people from robbers and finding out who other people are. My favorite chapter was about when Homer Price found some formula to making medicine.

Mr. Popper's Penguins was a book about Mr. Popper got a penguin sent to him in a little box with holes in it and then that penguin got kind of sick and he called someone who had another penguin and his was a little bit feeling sick, too, and they both wondered if it was because they had no one to play with, and then they had 10 eggs and then Mr. Popper and Mrs. Popper trained all those penguins to each do something special. The penguins performed lots of times.

I read classic literature to Addy as part of her Sonlight Core 1 curriculum. We study about two per month.