Todd Kindergarteners Learn About Interdependency On Farm Field Trip

from the Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District:

From 1880 to 1924, Muscoot Farm on Route 100 was a working dairy farm owned by the Hopkins family. Today, Muscoot is still home to farm animals but it is an interactive park owned by Westchester County

Recently, Todd Elementary School kindergartners visited the farm as part of their unit on living environment.

“We were studying interdependency and how animals and the land are interdependent. Animals rely on the earth and vice versa,” said kindergarten teacher Leslie Newman.

During the field trip, students met with farm workers, who described how animals use different parts of their bodies for different purposes, such as chicken beaks, feathers and talons.

“We also saw bugs on a cow and learned how bugs and cows interdependent,” Ms. Newman said.

Students were able to touch the animals and pet them.

“My favorite part of the trip was petting the chicken, because it reminded me of my own chickens,” said Pepper.

Lila’s favorite part was seeing the cows.

“They were really sweet and I just liked how they looked, and they were so big!” she said.

This press release was produced by the Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District. The views expressed here are the author’s own.