Language Project: Farm Signs

We’re introducing a new weekly activity based around language. Each week we will share a Makaton symbol and sign for farm words. We want to turn these into signage for the farm and would like your help.

If you speak and/or write in a language other than English please send us a video or audio of yourself speaking the word and/or an image of the written word together with the name of the language and the country or countries which speak the language. We will then share these each week for others to learn. We will also build the images into signs to display on the farm.

You can send us your images and recordings to administration@freightlinersfarm.org.uk or post them on our facebook group

Here you can see how to do the English Makaton sign for bird

Can you say this word in English or in another language? Can you write this word in English or another language?

Maths and numbers practice. How many chickens are going to bed?

Here is a video of our legbar and auracana chickens going to bed for the night. Can you count how many chickens there are?

You can mute to watch without sound to count yourself

or

Count with Dean first their evening snack of corn and then them heading up their ramp and in to bed.

Solution: Making a feed order

We asked can you work out what we need to order to get the bulk order prices for our animal feed

Dean has worked out how much of each type of animal feed we need to order for the next month. Our feed supplier Marriages needs an order of at least 1 tonne for delivery to be able to offer us bulk feed prices and free delivery. Each bag weighs 20kg. Can you work out whether our order is enough and if not how many more bags will we need to add on to get the best prices.

The answer to this question was that the basic order is not enough to get the bulk price and we need to order another two bags.

You can work this out two ways.

Method 1 : First fInd out how many bags you need to order to make a one tonne order

1 tonne of food is 1000kg

Each bag weighs 20kg

so to find out how many lots of 20kg (bags) make 1000kg we divide 1000 by 20

1000/20 = 100/2 = 50

So we need 50 bags to get the bulk price

Then to find out how many bags on the order we add them all together

1 bag aviary mix

20 bags layers pellets

8 bags of mixed corn

1 bag of rabbit pellets

3 bags of pot bellied pig pellets

1 bag guinea pig pellets

2 bags of beef nuts

5 bags of ewe nuts

5 bags of goat mix

+ 2 bags of sugar beet

———

= 48 bags total

We need to order 50 bags so that’s an extra 2 bags (50-48=2 or 48+2=50)

Method 2: First work out how much the base order weighs

Add up the total number of bags as above which gives 48 bags

Each bag weighs 20kg so that is 48x20kg for the whole order

48x20 =960 so Dean’s base order is 960kg

Work out how much more weight we need to order by taking away 960kg from 1000kg (1 tonne)

1000 - 960 = 40 kg

How many bags makes 40kg?

20 goes into 40 two times 40/20 =2 or 20+20=40

so 2 20kg bags are needed for the bulk order price

Maths problem: Making a feed order

Can you work out what we need to order to get the bulk order prices for our animal feed

Dean has worked out how much of each type of animal feed we need to order for the next month. Our feed supplier Marriages needs an order of at least 1 tonne for delivery to be able to offer us bulk feed prices and free delivery. Each bag weighs 20kg. Can you work out whether our order is enough and if not how many more bags will we need to add on to get the best prices.

1 bag aviary mix

20 bags layers pellets

8 bags of mixed corn

1 bag of rabbit pellets

3 bags of pot bellied pig pellets

1 bag guinea pig pellets

2 bags of beef nuts

5 bags of ewe nuts

5 bags of goat mix

2 bags of sugar beet

Music sessions with Nic

Join our weekly music sessions live with Nic for lockdown live on our facebook group every Tuesday at 1.30pm or catch up on our YouTube Channel.

So far we have made some musical instruments from objects and recycled packaging you might have at home.

• Tuning your drinking glasses or mugs

• Making musical instruments - shakers and maracas

Play, sing or shake along with Nic to Duff Thompson’s ‘Don’t Wanna Wake Up’

Solution Medicine Doses

How much medicine does our elderly sheep need if the medicine contains 20mg drug / ml and sheep need 1mg/kg. Our sheep weighs 70kg.

First work out how many ml of medicine contains 1mg drug

So there are 20mg drug in 1ml of medicine

and if I divide both parts by 20 then I keep the ration in balance

So there are 20/20 mg drug in 1/20ml of medicine

= 1mg drug in 0.05ml of medicine

A sheep needs 1mg of drug per 1kg of weight

From above this is equal to 0.05ml of medicine per 1kg of weight

Our sheep weighs 70kg so we can multiply both parts by 70 to find out how much medicine the sheep needs

70x0.05ml of medicine for 70x1kg weight sheep

= 3.5ml of medicine for a 70kg sheep

Solution Feeding Sheep

How much food is each sheep having a day?

We feed 1/4 scoop twice a day. So each day the sheep are fed

1/4+1/4= 2/4=1/2 a scoop or 2x1/4= 2/4=1/2 a scoop

To work out how much we feed the sheep each day we know 1 whole scoop holds 2kg so

1/2 a scoop holds 1/2*2kg=1 kg or 2kg divided into 2 which is 1kg

To work out how much each sheep gets a day. There are 2 sheep so each sheep eats half of the food provided each day.

1kg divided between 2 sheep is 1/2kg each per day

Maths problem Medicine Doses

Providing Veterinary Care

Medicine doses

Our elderly sheep has arthritis and sometimes needs medicine (NSAID ). The medicine comes in a solution which is 20mg drug/ml and a sheep needs 1mg drug/kg weight. Our sheep weighs 70kg can you work out how many ml of the drug the vet will tell us to give her?

Maths Problem Feeding Sheep

We need to check on how much concentrated food our old sheep are eating each day. Jasmine and Baarbara have 1/4 of a scoop between them twice a day. A scoop holds 2kg of sheep feed. Assuming they eat the same amount each how much in weight is each sheep getting a day?

Building a Greenhouse Solution

The answer to yesterday’s greenhouse building problem is yes you can make a roof panel for the greenhouse from the remaining clear polycarbonate sheet after cutting a length for the wall.

There is 1m length of polycarbonate left and the minimum length needed for the roof is 0.72m or 72cm. Once we had worked out the required length we decided to leave an over hang on the roof and used the whole 1m piece.

To solve the problem you use the measurements provided and Pythagoras’ Theorem click here to see how to do this.

And here it is in real life.

A Farming Education for Lockdown

Today we are launching our remote education activities to support our community with learning at home and to enable people to keep in touch with the farm. This is new for us so please do bear with us if we need to change things around. We are aiming to provide a programme of learning activities each day which complement the school curriculum in the real life setting of the farm.

Each day at 1.30pm a member of farm staff will host a live from the farm session on our facebook group. In the morning we will set a maths question from our work on the farm and in the afternoon we will provide the solution and working. For those of you able to pass by the farm gates as part of your daily exercise we will also be putting together do at home activity packs so watch out for the announcement.

So lets get started.

Todays maths problem is that we have a sheet of wooden board which we are making into the end of a greenhouse. The board is 2.4m by 1.2m. We want to cut the board as little as possible to make the end of the shed which needs to be 1.2m wide by 2m high at the lowest point. We also have clear polycarbonate sheets to make the roof and the walls which are 3000mm long and we need to know whether there is enough of these left after cutting the 2m piece to make the walls to use for the roof. Can we do this and how long is the minimum length of clear sheet we need for a roof panel? Here is a drawing of the wooden sheet with the measurements and the shape we will need to cut out to help you.