Cows!

This year Totara Park School started the milk for schools programme and after several weeks of drinking milk each day we have spent the last two weeks learning about cows and where milk comes from. Did you know that cows have 4 stomachs?

We wrote reports about cows and painted these amazing cow portraits. I used this blog post for inspiration for our paintings.

 

Before we wrote our reports we watched some clips from 'Rosie's World' and read some books about cows.

Here are some of our reports:

'Cows are animals. Milk comes from cows. Cows are red and white.'

 'Cows are animals. Cows make milk. Cows eat grass, they burp up the cud. Cows have 4 stomachs. The grass goes into one tummy then into the next tummy.'

'Cows are animals. They make milk. They eat the grass and burp the cud.'

'Cows are animals. They make milk from their udders. They are white and they are brown. Cows eat grass. Then they make milk. They have 4 stomachs.'

 We have also been reading the first verse of The Cow poem by Robert Louis Stevenson. Click here for a pdf.

Cute Cow Portraits

As part of our 'Milk Science' inquiry learning theme (and my attempt at incorporating our inquiry study into other parts of my classroom program) we have been reading the first verse of Robert Louis Stevenson's 'The Cow' poem (click here for a pdf printable). And I was desperate to thought I would attempt this cow portrait art lesson with my gorgeous bunch of 5 year olds.

Here are some of our portraits:

 Moo!