Saying Goodbye to the animals at SALI’s Farm
Our first group of children at SALI’s Farm started in the beginning of June and had their last day this Tuesday. Throughout the program we knew we had to prepare the children for it to end. Each week we told them how many more weeks they had. We told them that the last day would be a celebration of each of their success and accomplishments at the farm and they were ready to party when they got off the bus!
Volunteer Jane had organized a scavenger hunt as a way for the children to say goodbye to each of the animals and to the garden. I was overwhelmed with how much creativity, and thoughtfulness she put into it. It started out with a clue at circle time
And off they went to find the treasure box and next clue at Miss Morgan & Puddings house. They discovered the box in the tack that was hanging on the fence and discovered individually wrapped gifts for each of them. A beautiful decorated carved wooden horse! Then we went looking for the two horses in their field. Off in the distance the volunteers saw Miss Morgan laying on the ground and we thought the worse. Had she passed away over night? We kept the kids with Pudding and I ran over to check. She was alive! But moaning and was not getting up to get her treats in the buckets that the kids had. This was not a good sign. In a few minutes we were reassured by the owner that all was good and she just took extra long to get up. If we had have been patient we would have seen her pull herself up in 10 minutes and she gave us a sad look as we were on our way to the next treasure box. The volunteers will make sure she gets extra treats when we come back next week to water the garden and do some chores.
All the treasure