Georgia Performance Standards (GPS) for Second Grade

You will learn all the parts, wheel, pedal, belt, flyer, and bobbin, of the spinning wheel and how they work together to turn fiber into yarn.  Learn about changes in size, weight, and color, and movement of things while noting those qualities that stay the same as Aunt Jan uses her spinning wheel to change fibers into yarn.  See a copper pipe and ammonia change the color of fibers right before your eyes.  compare the sizes, weights, and speeds of hand spindles and spinning wheels. 

(GPS # S2CS4 - a, b, c, & d)

Visit the petting zoo, chicken house, bee barn, bat theater, and bat Q & A board to learn about and compare different characteristics such as sizes, weights, ages and speeds of many different animals, especially the mommies and babies.  On the hay ride, you will observe many different breeds, sizes, and ages of horses.  You will also be able to identify and compare the characteristics, including those that enhance survival, and the basic needs of all the animals you meet.  The various stages of the life cycles of many different animals, including mammals, such as goats & sheep; birds, represented by chickens, turkeys, & peacocks; and insects in the form of bees in the bee hive, are easily observed on the farm.

(GPS # S2CS4 - c & d, S2L1 - a)

As you wander through various habitats found in the woods along the Nature Trail, stroll through the Vine Tunnel, and visit the Sundial, Herb, and Water Gardens you will observe trees and plants still in summer growth, some starting to transition into fall foliage, and others transitioning into winter dormancy.  All kinds of mushrooms and other fungi will found living in abundance along the Nature Trail.  You will observe and be able to identify the basic needs of plants, compare variables that might affect growth, identify the parts of a plant and their functions, identify a wide variety of plants and their uses, identify various habitats and the interdependence of the animals and the plants you see on the farm.  Without the bee, the pumpkin flowers would not get pollinated, and without the pumpkin vine there would be no squash vine borers or stink bugs for the bats and guinea fowl to eat.   The fish in the water garden need the food and oxygen produced by the water plants, and the carnivorous plants take care of pesky insects found in the woodland, pond and marsh habitats.

(GPS# S2L1 - b & c; QCC 10,11, 12, 14, 15,16, 17, & 18)