Justine Lui-Kwon (left) and fellow preschool students at Carden West Elementary School have fun playing with pigs brought to the school by Abbie 4-H President Jamie Heiman, a senior at Amador Valley High School. Jamie’s mother, Gayli, is a pre-K teacher at Carden West. The mother-daughter team has set up this day-long “pig pen” for the past five years, ever since Jamie got involved with raising pigs, to teach the students about farm life. “Being a ‘farm kid’ I wanted to promote farm life to these ‘city kids,'” Gayli said. Students meet the real pigs while they are learning about farm animals in class. This year’s pigs, who are currently unnamed but affectionately called “Shake ‘n Bake,” came from Jaime’s grandfather’s farm in South Dakota. She is raising them to enter in the Alameda County Fair.
Playing with pigs
