Oct. 1, 2005
Farm Unit Study
Posted in October Unit Studies
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Farm 5 Day Plan Science Make butter with real cream. Taste a variety of dairy products. Animal Sort Have their barn set out (or a picture of a barn) and have their safari mat set out (or a picture of a safari area). Gather all their plastic animals into one pile, and have them separate the animals between safari and farm, putting the animals in their correct homes. Animal Match Print out images of animals, cut in half, and have them match them up. To make it harder, cut into a couple of pieces. Arthur's Clipart Images Math Eggs Are Hatching - activity in a reproducible math book I have Farm Animal Shadow Matching worksheet make farm animal pattern worksheets dot to dot worksheets 1 2 maze worksheets 1 2 more/less worksheet Crafts Little Boy Blue shape craft hay * Ask and help child to identify the shapes Talk about the different shades of blue. * Encourage child to glue the template pieces to the body outline template. * When Little Boy Blue is assembled cut around and then glue Little Boy Blue to "sleep" over the hay mat template (suggest to color the mat in different shades of yellow & brown). You can also have the children glue some real hay, or cut-up raffia, construction paper in a coordinating color to the hay mat first and then glue Little Boy Blue on top (beige, brown). * There is a small marking on the hay mat marking to use a hole punch to insert a piece of yarn, string or raffia to hang as a decoration. Little Bo Peep Mobile Muddy Pig Cut out a pig out of construction paper and have children fingerpaint the pig with chocolate pudding. Cow Prints Sponge Print Farm Obtain sponges shaped as cows, pigs, farm houses, fences, clouds, etc. Have your child dip the sponges into paint and press on a piece of paper to create a farm scene. Paint with tractors - run through paint, and then onto paper to make tracks. Three Pigs House What You Need: Paper, Twigs, Spaghetti or straw, Glue, Paint What You Do: Let your children create the three little pigs houses by using red paper (bricks), spaghetti (straw), and small twigs (sticks). Sponge Painted Black Sheep Print
the sheep template onto heavy construction paper. Dip a sponge in black
paint and sponge paint the sheep's black wool. Let dry. Cut out
and glue onto a popsicle stick for a puppet. Food/Cooking Cow Milk Shakes Blend the following together: Milk, Ice Cream, Chocolate Syrup Bake bread Misc. Play with animal flashcards - matching mothers to babies Farm coloring sheet animal coloring sheets good coloring sheets With the coloring sheets, have them use a variety of art mediums to color - different paints, pastels, colored pencils, chalks, etc. Do Little Boy Blue and Little Bo-Peep little books Animal 3-in-a-row both from Early Childhood Units for Nursery Rhymes Books I've discovered the Bobbie Kalman books are great. The Usborne book of tractors / Caroline Young J 629.225 Y All about farm animals / Brenda Cook J 636.01 C Hooray for sheep farming! / Bobbie Kalman J 636.3145 KAL Hooray for orchards! / Bobbie Kalman J 634 K Life on a cattle farm / by Judy Wolfman J 636.222 WOL Life on a crop farm / by Judy Wolfman J 630 WOL Life on a pig farm / by Judy Wolfman J 636.4 WOL Richard Scarry's On the farm Little Red Hen Pioneer projects / Bobbie Kalman J 745.5 K Pioneer life from A to Z / created by Bobbie Kalman J 973 K Pioneer farm cooking / by Mary Gunderson : J 641.5973 G Pioneer farm : living on a farm in the 1880s ; by Megan O'Hara J 630 0 Nursery Rhymes Baa Baa Black Sheep - coloring pages Little Bo Peep (read Jesus and lost sheep - compare) - coloring sheets Little Boy Blue 3 Little Pigs - coloring pages |
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Oct. 1, 2005 - Cute ideas!
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