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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Kindergarteners and first-grade students got to sojourn the workplace to larn astir the value of agriculture astatine Clovis East High School.
"We got to favored babe goats, and we got to favored a guinea pig," a Clovis Unified pupil said.
Clovis Unified kindergarteners and archetypal graders are exploring the satellite of agriculture.
"It was my archetypal clip astir workplace animals," a Clovis Unified pupil said.
Agriculture Department Chair astatine Clovis East Jennifer Knight says the Spring Agriculture Fair is tally by precocious schoolhouse students to thatch younger generations astir workplace life.
"This is their accidental to thatch the aboriginal generations astir the value of AG and each the antithetic vocation opportunities that, you know, they mightiness beryllium capable to deliberation astir erstwhile they turn up," Knight said.
She says this lawsuit gives kids opportunities to perceive and spot what they larn astir successful the classroom, with acquisition and engaging activities, from conservation games to learning astir plants.
"When they larn astir subject successful school, they tin spot however that's applied to thing wherever they're really increasing nutrient for their families, are producing animals that volition either supply companionship oregon nutrient for america arsenic well," Knight said.
Clovis FFA President Jaliyah Jones enjoyed showing young students the value of farming.
"It's important that they cognize that we request animals for food, we request plans for our veggies, we request everything conscionable to beryllium capable to person the satellite however it works," Jones said.
On Saturday, the Clovis FFA volition big 500 students competing successful 7 Ag contests astatine Clovis East.
