Stock Show Education

One of our favorite trips every year is to the Stock Show. It is a great chance for the kids to gain a better understanding of where our food comes from and what it takes to raise the livestock.

As a homeschooling family, we're very open about life and death and the cycle of all living things. Maisie asks very straight forward questions about how we get our food: Do we have to kill it? Why do we eat it? What food comes from a cow? We feel that the more factual we are about it--while adding the sensitivity of "waste not, want not" and to be gentle to the animals because that is the humane way--the more likely our children are to respect life.

Each year, we make a lapbook of the Stock Show. We haven't completed it yet this year, but I'll post when we do. If you're interested in making one with your kids there is a great free online guide where you can get just about anything you want to put in a lapbook:
http://www.nationalwestern.com/nwss/education/other_docs/handbook.pdf
Big Kudos to 4-H, Tom Fey and CSU for the information.

I love homeschooling!

Photos to come.