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Old
MacDonald Had a Farm
Old
MacDonald had a farm,
E-I-E-I-O.
And
on that farm he had some pigs,
(pigs,
chickens, horses, cows, ducks, goats, sheep)
E-I-E-I-O.
With
an oink, oink, here
and
an oink, oink , there.
Here
an oink , there an oink.
Every
where an oink, oink.
(oink,
cluck, neigh, moo, quack, bleat, baa, quack)
Old
MacDonald had a farm,
E-I-E-I-O.

Books:
The Milk Makers ~
Gail Gibbons
Pigs Love Mud (Touch
& Feel Flap Book) ~ Richard Powell
Old MacDonald Had
a Farm (with cassette) ~ Holly Berry
Barnyard Banter ~
Denise Fleming
Cock-a-doodle-doo!
Barnyard Hullabaloo ~ Giles Andreae
Big Red Barn ~ Margaret
Wise Brown
"Not Now!" Said the
Cow ~ Joanne Oppenheim
Night Is Coming ~
W. Nikola-Lisa
Inside a Barn In the
Country: A Rebus Read-Along Story ~ Alyssa Satin Capucilli
The Cow That Went
Oink ~ Bernard Most
Wake Up, Wake Up!
~ Brian and Rebecca Wildsmith
Seasons on the Farm
~ Jane Miller
Parents in the Pigpen,
Pigs in the Tub ~ Amy Ehrlich
Oink! Moo! How Do
You Do? A Book of Animal Sounds ~ Grace Maccarone
Hide-and-Seek on the
Farm (a First-Start Easy Reader) ~ Laura Damon
Farm Babies ~ Janet
Campbell
Farm Animals ~ Elizabeth
E. Kaufamn
Buzzzzzzzz Said the
Bee (Hello Reader Level 1) ~ Wendy Cheyette Lewison
The Farm (trade books)
~ Literacy 2000
On the Farm (trade
books) ~ Literacy 2000
Mrs. Wishy-Washy ~
Joy Cowley (Wright Group)
Charlotte's Web ~
E.B. White
Baby Farm Animals
~ Garth Williams
Barnyard Lullaby ~
Frank Asch
Barnyard Tracks ~
Dee Dee Duffy
Cock-a-doodle-doo:
A Farmyard Counting Book ~ Steve Lavis
Cock-a-doodle-moo!
~ Bernard Most
Cows in the Kitchen
~ June Crebbin
Nothing at All ~ Denys
Cazet
Quacky Duck ~ Paul
& Emma Rogers
William Wegman's Farm
Days ~ William Wegman
Farmer Duck ~ Martin
Waddell
The Hullabaloo ABC
~ Beverly Cleary
One Windy Wednesday
~ Phyllis Root
The Thing That Bothered
Farmer Brown ~ Teri Sloat
This and That ~ Julie
Sykes
Click, Clack, Moo Cows That
Type ~ Doreen Cronin
*Click, Clack, Moo Cows That
Type video with more fun on the farm - Scholastic
Rosie's Walk ~ Pat Hutchins
Dollar
Tree Finds:Books with cassettes
Old MacDonald Had
Some Hens
Old MacDonald Had
Some Horses
Old MacDonald Had
Some Sheep
Old MacDonald Had
Some Pigs
Other
Resources:
Farm Animal Pencil
Stencils (Ideal School Supply Co. #6017)
Farm Animals Manipulatives
( Macmillan Early Skills)
ABC Farm: The Great
Farm Unit With Alphabet Cards (Totline WPH1402)
We Learn All About
Farms (Fearon Teacher Aids FE-4594)
A Day at the Farm
coloring book (Creative Child Press)
Fun to Learn Farm
Animals (Longmeadow Press)
Farm Animals: Reproducible
Puppet Patterns (Judy/Instructo JI8663)
Terrific Topics Farm
[Gr. Prek - 1] (Carson-Delosa CD0826)
Welcome to the Farm!
Reproducible Social Studies Activity Book [PreK - 3) (Judy/Instructo JI8691)
Baby Farm Animals
Whole Language Theme Unit [Gr. K-1] (Instructional Fair IF8818)
The Farm Early Years
Thematic Notes (Frank Schaffer FS4016)
On The Farm Giant
Floor Puzzle
Farm Floor Puzzle
(Frank Schaffer FS3716)
Farm Animals Giant
Floor Puzzle (Frank Schaffer FS3739)
Farm Animal Stickers
(probably Wal-Mart)
Farm Friends Write'N
Wipe Seating Signs (Instructional Fair IF 138)
Farm Animals Border
Magic [bulletin board border] (Creative Teaching Press)
Fun At The Farm Story
Stamps (Educational Insights EI1526)
Plastic Farm Animals
(probably Wal-Mart toy dept.)
Teacher's Helper Feb/Mar
1999
Teacher's Helper Sept/Oct
1999
Teacher's Helper -
Kindergarten - Apr/May/June 1994
March Idea Book -
Teacher's Friend Publications (TF0300)
April Idea Book -
Teacher's Friend Publications (TF0400)
The Mailbox - Kindergarten-Apr/May
1999
The Mailbox - PreK
- June/July 1990
The Mailbox - Primary
- Oct/Nov 1989
SCHOOLDAYS, Sept/Oct
1990 (Frank Schaffer)
SCHOOLDAYS, Apr/May/June
1991 (Frank Schaffer)
Farm Animals [Preschool/Kindergarten]
(TEC3185)
Learning Centers Through
the Year - Teacher Created Materials (#059)
Animals - Frank Schaffer
Publications (FS-8057)
Bulletin
Board: Our Class is "Moo-velous"!
or What an "Udder-ly" Wonderful Class! Enlarge a clip art cow
or coloring page to almost the size of your bulletin board onto white paper.
Add black spots to the cow. Make a pasture scene on your bulletin
board (gently rolling hills and sky will do), then add pictures of your
students to the cow's spots. Finish off the board by making a "cow
print" border and matching letters for the caption. This can be done
by just adding black spots to plain white letters and border. Or,
you might even be able to find cow print border in some of the school supply
catalogs or in your local teacher's store. Seems that I might have
seen some recently in a catalog.
Chicken
Board Topper: April Idea Book -
Teacher's Friend Publications (TF0400)
If you don't have
this resource, you could also make your own board topper. You'll
need the head and wings/hooves only of a farm animal enlarged on posterboard
and colored. Adhere it to the top of the bulletin to look as if it's
holding the board and peeking over. If you're really with it, you
could also add some legs sticking out underneath to finish off the illusion!
:)
Old
MacDonald Had a Farm! a - e - i - o - u! Bulletin Board:
The Mailbox - Primary- Apr/May 1992 Down
in the Barn ... Bulletin Board:
Your students help to create this bulletin board. Create the background
for their art work by adding the caption and a barn to your bulletin board.
Each student will illustrate a farm animal and either dictate or write
one sentence about the animal underneath their picture. Then just
mount their work to the bulletin board and you're all done!
Bulletin
Board: Create a large barn on your
bulletin board. Have students color/paint farm animals to go in the
barnyard. Dress each student in a straw hat and farmer clothes (overalls,
plaid shirt), and have them stand in front of the barn holding a toy pitchfork,
rake, or hoe. Take their picture and add it to the board as well.
"The
Cream of the Crop" Bulletin Board: On
your board have a barn with a corn field. On each corn stalk, have
2 - 3 ears of corn with each containing a student's picture.
Groups:
If
you label or group your students, then you might consider using
farm animals for groups/tables. Ex. The horses table, the cows group,
etc. You could even let the group vote to determine which animal
in the barnyard they'd like to be.
Vocabulary:
It's always a good idea to start a new unit off by making new vocabulary
words readily available to the students. Making a portable Word Wall
using one of your pocketcharts just fits the bill. The pocketchart
will be low enough for students to be on eye-level with the words, and
also to make it easy for them to access and interact with the words.
Make word cards for
the vocabulary words and add a picture to the card when possible to be
used as a picture cue. Have another set of word cards without the
picture. Use the picture cards at the top of the chart, and have
the picture-less set available at the bottom. The students can use
the picture cards on the portable Word Wall to assist them when reading
or writing. They can also use the second set as a pocketchart
activity to match to the first set with the pictures. Victoria, at
Kinder
Korner, also lets her students remove the picture-less cards to use
for copying, but not the picture cards.
You can make picture
cards using clip art, coloring book pictures, worksheet or workbook pictures,
or even graphics software. If using the graphics software, print
your pictures and words onto cardstock, laminate, cut out, and they're
ready to use. Here's a couple of pictures of my farm vocabulary words in
the pocketchart.
Here are some farm vocabulary words:
horse |
cow |
pig |
duck |
dog |
cat |
barn |
tractor |
farmer |
goat |
field |
pasture |
sheep |
baa |
neigh |
quack |
oink |
pink |
yellow |
white |
green |
chick |
chickens |
hen |
eggs |
wool |
milk |
hay |
mud |
water |
corn |
crops |
moo |
plant |
plow |
house |
silo |
grain |
calf |
colt |
piglet |
puppy |
kitten |
kid |
ewe |
vegetables |
lamb |
mare |
bull |
rooster |
wheat |
ram |
cluck |
pitchfork |
bale |
slop |
This is such a fun
unit to teach and can take you in so many directions. And, it lends it
self so well to "teaching across the curriculum." You'll have more
than ample opportunities to incorporate literature, phonics, vocabulary,
math, social studies, writing, science, and more. So, with
all that in mind, I'm going to start off with my very favorite activity
in this unit, making a Farm Shape Book. ;)
Farm
Shape Book: This book could be
make in several different ways, but I chose to utilize the Ellison die-cuts
to complete our book. First, I had to draw a pattern for my
barn shape book. I made it as large as possible on a sheet of paper,
but left enough room around the edges for copying. If you wanted
to go ahead and add the text to each page before copying, you'd need to
make a template for each page, plus one for the front and back cover.
I copied the covers
onto red construction paper and the kids cut out all the pages. Then
we started the process of creating each page.
pg. 1 Horses
eat grass.
(Glue on a brown horse
cut-out, add the details. Glue on toothpicks for fence posts and
yarn for fence railings.)
pg. 2 Chickens
eat corn.
(Glue on yellow chicken
and add corn kernels.)
pg. 3 Pigs like
mud.
(Glue on pink pig,
add details. Add mud using brown marker, fingerpaint, or "chocolate
pudding paint.")
pg. 4 Cows give
milk.
(Glue on brown cow,
add details and grass clippings. You could use a white cow
and add black spots.)
pg. 5 Sheep give
wool.
(Glue on black sheep
and add white cotton to body only, leaving face and legs black.)
pg. 6 Ducks like
water.
(Glue on yellow duck
and add blue water with marker or paint.)
**Note:
I didn't do the duck page. I figured you got the picture. :)
Farm
Families Book: Make a Farm Families
book to share with your class using the Brown Bear, Brown Bear format.
Each page would follow the format below and use a different animal and
their baby. The page format would be:
Mama Cow,
Mama Cow, what do you see?
I see a little calf
standing by me.
Awards:
Cock-a doodle-doo! I'm so proud of you!
That's something to crow about!
Note:
You could also use these along with student work on a bulletin board.
Journal
Prompts:
* I think cows are
cool because ...
* Three Delicious
Dairy Foods
* I see a big brown
____.
* Milk is good for
me because ...
* What makes a cow
happy?
* What makes a pig
happy?
* My favorite ice
cream is _____.
* The Cow That Went
Oink!
* The cow said, "
___!"
* The pig said, "
___!"
* The Rooster That
Wouldn't Crow
* The Rooster That
Crowed at Night
* The Cow That Gave
Chocolate Milk!
* I wish chickens
had ____ eggs!
* What makes slop?
* If I were a pig
...
* You can tell a chicken
is happy when ..
* Mud is ...
* Pigs in mud are
...
Pig
Art Project: Take this opportunity
to make the TLC Pig. The picture below
shows our version to the pig. I provide them with the patterns, they just
have to cut them out and put them together (a following directions activity).
Cow Project:
I created the pattern below so that my students could make a cow, similar to the
pig that we'd made. After they made their cow, they wrote or dictated a
sentence about their cow on a mini-sentence strip. Then their cows and the
sentence strips joined the pigs in the hallway. :)
Farm
ABCs: Have your students
help brainstorm farm items to go with each letter of the alphabet.
You can either chart their answers, and/or afterwards add pictures and
make it into a class book. If making it into a book, you might ask
each student to illustrate a page.
A = apple
B = barn
C = cow
D = duck
Patterning:
Use Ellison cut-outs or animal/farm pictures to practice patterning.
The students can either glue their patterns on to paper or you can laminate
the pictures for use over and over again. I like to let my students
pattern in the pocketchart because it gives them more of a confined space
to work in.
Seriation:
Use either the copy machine or a graphics program to create farm pictures
in 3 or more sizes and print/copy on to cardstock. Color if needed
and laminate. The students practice sequencing them smallest to largest,
or largest to smallest. This is another good activity for the pocketchart.
Classification:
Have students sort animal pictures into farm/not farm, farm/zoo, or other
pictures into animals/food, fruits/vegetables, or living/non-living.
Real
Life: Hatch eggs or raise chicks.
Egg
Patterning: Use brown and white
Ellison die-cut eggs to pattern.
Math
Mats: Copy a nest onto each
of 10 - 20 (depending on what numeration you're working on) pieces of brown/yellow
construction paper. Cut out the nests and glue them onto black construction
paper. Program the front of each nest with a number. Laminate
the math mats as well as sheets of white or light brown construction paper.
Use the Ellison die-cut to cut out an appropriate number of small eggs
from the white/light brown laminated paper. Students count the appropriate
number of eggs into each nest on the math mats.
Flannelboard:
Make flannelboard pieces for the farm animals, barn, tractor, farmer, farm
house, and food. You can copy these pieces onto cardstock, color,
cut out, and laminate. Hot glue pieces of sandpaper to the back so
that it will adhere to the flannelboard. You can also make pieces
from Pellon interfacing, but don't use washable markers to color them.
If you do, it will come off on your hands during handling.
Barnyard
Banter: Use animal pictures and
have the students sequence them as to the order the goose saw them in the
book. If the pictures are small enough, they can glue them in order
on adding machine/cash register tape. (The pictures can be found
in the resource book: Farm Animals Preschool/Kindergarten (TEC3185)
This is The Education Center which I believe is also the publisher of The
Mailbox.)
Animal
Sounds: Make picture cards and
sound cards for the farm animals. Students match the animals to the
sounds that they make. < duck/quack, cow/moo, etc. >
Make
Butter: Use a half pint of
heavy whipping cream and a dash of salt. Put into a container with
a lid. Shake until cream turns to butter. Serve to students
on crackers. If the students will be the ones shaking the mixture,
make sure the cream is in a non-breakable container.
You can chant this
poem as you shake:
Shake, shake, shake,
Butter we will make.
Churn, churn, churn,
Now it is your turn!
~Author Unknown
OR this one:
Making
Butter Boogie
Shake it up
Shake it down
Shake it, shake it
all around.
Shake it high
Shake it low
Shake it, shake it
to and fro.
Shake it over
Shake it under
Pretty soon, you'll
have butter!
~Author Unknown
Block
Center: Add plastic farm
animals to your Block Center. Encourage students to build corrals
and pens for the animals.
Barnyard
Bingo: Make Bingo cards using
farm animals or farm words.
Stick
Puppets: Copy animal pictures onto
cardstock, color and laminate. Hot glue craft sticks to the back
to form stick puppets.
Five
Little Ducks
Five little ducks
went out one day,
Over the hill and
far away.
Mother duck said,
"Quack, quack, quack, quack."
But only four little
ducks came back.
Four little ducks went
out one day,
Over the hill and
far away.
Mother duck said,
"Quack, quack, quack, quack."
But only three little
ducks came back.
Three little ducks
went out one day,
Over the hill and
far away.
Mother duck said,
"Quack, quack, quack, quack."
But only two little
ducks came back.
Two little ducks went
out one day,
Over the hill and
far away.
Mother duck said,
"Quack, quack, quack, quack."
But only one little
duck came back.
One little duck went
out one day,
Over the hill and
far away.
Mother duck said,
"Quack, quack, quack, quack."
But none of the five
little ducks came back.
Sad mother duck went
out one day,
Over the hill and
far away.
The sad mother duck
said, "Quack, quack, quack."
And all of the five
little ducks came back!
~ Author Unknown
Cluck,
Cluck, Red Hen
(tune: Baa, Baa, Black
Sheep)
Baa, baa, black sheep,
have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir,
three bags full.
One for your sweater
and one for your rug,
One for your blanket
to keep you warm and snug.
Cluck, cluck, red hen,
have you any eggs?
Yes sir, yes sir,
as many as your legs.
One for your breakfast
and one for your lunch,
Come back tomorrow,
I'll have another bunch.
Moo, moo, brown cow,
have you milk for me?
Yes sir, yes sir,
as tasty as can be.
Churn it into butter,
make it into cheese,
Freeze it into ice
cream, or drink it if you please.
Buzz, buzz, busy bee,
is your honey sweet?
Yes sir, yes sir,
sweet enough to eat.
Honey on your muffin,
honey on your cake,
Honey by the spoonful,
as much as I can make.
Baa, baa, black sheep,
have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir,
three bags full.
~ Jackie Reinach
Chicken
Chicken, chicken,
you can't cluck too much for me.
Chicken, chicken,
now come down off of that tree.
Chicken, chicken,
chicken, you can't cluck too much for me.
"C" is for the little
chick
"H" is for the momma
hen
"I" cause I love that
bird
"C" for the cluck,
cluck
"K" for the kackle,
kackle
"E" and the little
"N"
C-H-I-C-K-E-N
That's the way to
spell chicken.
That's my friend the
chicken.
~ Author Unknown
.
Eight
Baby Pigs
Two mother pigs lived
in a pen. (thumbs)
Each had four babies
and that made ten. (fingers of both hands)
These four babies
were black and white. (fingers of one hand)
These four babies
were black as night. (finger on other hand)
All eight babies love
to play (wiggle fingers)
And they rolled in
the mud all day! (roll hands)
~ Author Unknown
*Note:
I would change the word "babies" to piglets.
another version:
Two mother pigs lived
in a pen (hold up thumbs)
With eight baby pigs.
Altogether there were ten. (hold up all ten fingers)
All eight babies loved
to play, (hold thumbs in, bend and straighten fingers)
And they rolled and
they rolled in the mud each day. (circle hands around each other)
At night with their
mothers they curled in a heap, (make hands into fists)
And squealed and squealed
till they went to sleep. (wiggle eight finger and squeal, then
make
fists again and be quiet)
~ Author Unknown
Cow
Poem
Cow loves to moo and
chew it's true!
Moo -- moo -- moo!
Cow flaps her tail
and fills a pail
Of her fresh milk
for you.
Cow wears a bell so
you can tell
When she's on the
roam.
And at day's end she
joins her friends
And cow comes strolling
home!
~ Author Unknown
This
Little Cow
This little cow eats
grass. (hold up one hand, fingers erect, bend down one finger)
This little cow eats
hay. (bend down another finger)
This little cow drinks
water. (bend down another finger)
And this little cow
does nothing. (bend down another finger)
But lie and sleep
all day.
~ Author Unknown
Sensory
Table: Use shelled corn (dried
corn kernels) or hay in your sensory table. Make sure to use a top
on your table so that you don't feed the mice! :) And if you're using
the hay, you could hide tiny toy mice in the hay for the children to find!
Just like in a barn!
Reading
Center: Stack haybales for
your students to sit on, and put farm related books in tin buckets, wash
tubs or bushel baskets!
Counting
Cows: Cut out white cows
using Ellison die-cuts. Program half the cows with a number on each
cow, and program the other half of the cows with black dots or spots.
Laminate. Students count the dots/spots on the cows and match to
the cow with the correct number.
Tractors,
Tractors
(tune: Daisy, Daisy)
Tractors, tractors,
Tractors help farmers
work.
They pull plows that,
Break up the clumps
of dirt.
A farmer can work
much faster,
Because he has a tractor.
There's lots to do,
The whole year through.
Tractors help farmers
do the work.
~ Author Unknown
To
The Farm
(tune: Twinkle, Twinkle)
Chicken, kittens, piglets,
too,
Donkeys, horses, cows
that moo.
Fish that swim down
in the pond,
Ducklings quacking
all day long.
All these things you
see,
If you to to the farm
with me!
~ Author Unknown
Shovels,
Rakes and Even Hoes
(tune: Twinkle, Twinkle,
Little Star)
Shovels, rakes, and
even hoes,
Help the farmer as
he sows.
First, he digs into
the ground;
Then he plants some
seeds around.
Shovels, rakes, and
even hoes,
Help the farmer as
he sows.
~ Author Unknown
If
I Were a Farmer
1. Oh, if I were a
farmer, a farmer, a farmer
2. Oh, if I were a
farmer, what would I do?
3. I would milk the
cows each morning
4. Each morning, each
morning
I would milk the cows
each morning, that's what I'd do.
*Repeat 1 and 2
Actions
1. sway to lines 1
and 2
2. then pretend to
milk and collect eggs
~ Author Unknown
I
Like Baby Animals
(tune: London Bridge)
I like baby animals,
Animals, animals.
I like baby animals,
I'll name some for
you.
Kittens, puppies, chicks
and foals,
Chicks and foals,
chicks and foals.
Kittens, puppies,
chicks and foals,
I can name some more.
Goslings, ducklings,
lambs and calves,
Lambs and calves,
lambs and calves.
Goslings, ducklings,
lambs and calves,
I like baby animals.
~ Author Unknown
Ten
Little Pigs
(tune: Five Little
Ducks Went Out to Play)
Ten little pigs rolled
in the mud-
Squishy, squashy,
felt so good.
The farmer took one
piggy out.
"Oink, oink, oink,"
the pig did shout!
Continue with nine,
eight, seven, etc.
No little pigs rolled
in the mud.
They all looked so
clean and good.
The farmer turned
his back and then,
Those pigs rolled
in the mud again!
~ Author Unknown
The
Wheels on the Tractor
(tune: Wheels on the
Bus)
The wheels on the tractor
go round and round,
Round and round, round
and round.
The wheels on the
tractor go round and round,
All around the farm.
The lights on the tractor
go blink, blink, blink.
The brakes on the tractor
go squeak, squeak, squeak.
The horn on the tractor
goes beep, beep, beep.
The farmer on the tractor
goes up and down, up and down, up and down.
~ adapted by Cindy
Montgomery
Sing
The Farmer in the Dell
Drama/Movement:
Students ...
*gallop like a horse
*neigh like a horse
*moo like a cow
*butt like a goat
*waddle like a duck
*quack like a duck
*crow like a rooster
*strut like a rooster
*wallow like a pig
Graphing
and/or sorting: Graph and/or
sort pictures of animals with two legs and with four legs.
Corn
Cob Painting: Use corn cobs
to paint with. |
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Animal
Stamps: Provide each student
with a page divided into quarters (or larger or smaller sections if needed
... depending on size of stamps). Program, or have the students program,
each section with a number. Have the students stamp the appropriate
number of animals in each section according to the number.
Milk
the Glove: This is a really
neat activity and it can be made even neater by adding to the original
idea. The original idea was to fill a latex glove with water, tie
it to the under side of a chair. Prick a hole in each finger.
Put a pail underneath and have the students practice "milking". You
can make this even more elaborate and fun by dolling up a saw horse or
even a cow cut out from plywood. What fun!
Roll
in the Mud: Use a brown blanket
to simulate the mud and let the kids have a good time "rolling in the mud."
Environmental
Print: Use labels from milk cartons
(chocolate & white), bread wrappers, ice cream, corn, grits, grain
cereals, butter, bacon, ham, eggs, cheese, potatoes, vegetables, etc.
You can either mount these and make an "environmental print" Word Wall,
or mount each onto a page and make a class book.
Popping
Good Sheep: Copy a sheep
onto stiff cardstock or posterboard and cut out. Have students glue
on popped popcorn for the wool. Paint two wooden, spring-type clothespins
black and add to the bottom for legs. Add a wiggly eye. Eat
the left over popcorn.
Down
On the Farm
One red barn way up
on the hill;
Two brown hens perched
upon the sill;
Three pretty cows
spotted black and white;
Four fat sheep, a
fluffy woolly white;
Five pin pigs sleeping
in the sun;
Six yellow chicks
a-peeping on the run;
Seven happy farmers
work all the live long day;
Down on the farm -
that's where they want to stay!
~Author Unknown
Counting
Critters: Label cards with
numbers 0-10 or whatever's appropriate; laminate. Have students count
out the appropriate number of farm animal manipulatives to match the number.
Or, you can use pictures of farm animals instead. If using pictures,
you can put one animal per picture or use more than one animal in each
picture.
The
Color Farm
(tune: BINGO)
There was a farmer
had a cat
And Black was her
name-o.
B-L-A-C-K, B-L-A-C-K,
B-L-A-C-K
And Black was her
name-o.
continue with:
dog - brown
cow - purple
horse - green
duck - orange
bird - blue
chick - yellow
pig - red
~ Author Unknown
Shapely
Cow: Make a cow's face while reinforcing
shapes. Begin with a rectangle turned vertically. Add triangle
ears, circles for the eyes and two small ovals for the nostrils.
Glove
Garden: Provide each student
with a clear, plastic glove (the type used by food service employees).
Have them add a small amount to soil to each finger, then add seeds such
as lettuce or radish. Add a small amount of water, then hang in the
classroom and wait for them to sprout. (Sunlight not required)
After
the Field Trip: After a field
trip to a farm, have your students complete the sentence frames and illustrate
each sentence on a separate sheet of page. When finished compile
the pages into a book.
In the Barnyard
I saw a _____.
I heard a _____.
I smelled a _____.
I touched a _____.
Open
Up the Barn Door: When using
this poem, insert a child's name in the first blank, then let them supply
the animal sound in parenthesis.
Open up the barn door,
_____,
Before the clock strikes
two.
There's a cow inside
the barn,
And he is saying (moo).
Open up the barn door,
____,
It's a sunny day.
There's a horse inside
the barn,
And she is saying
(neigh).
Open up the barn door,
____,
Singing tra-la-la.
There's a lamb inside
the barn,
And she is saying
(baaaaa).
Open up the barn door,
____,
As fast as you know
how.
There's a cat inside
the barn,
And she is saying
(meow).
Open up the barn door,
_____,
And take a little
peek.
There's a mouse inside
the barn,
And he is saying (squeak).
Open up the barn door,
____,
And don't get off
the track.
There's a duck inside
the barn,
And he is saying (quack).
~Author Unknown
Farm
Animal Counting Book: Have
each student stamp an appropriate number of animals on each page to match
the text or number.
Mother
Match: If you have pictures
of mothers and babies (animals) then you can create a Memory Match game.
Add the pictures to index cards and laminate.
Farm
Mobile: Use a barn as the
center of the mobile, then add farm animals, a tractor, a farmer, etc.
as the dangling items.
Graph:
Favorite farm animal or favorite farm sound. In the picture below we graphed our
favorite animal from the book Cock-a-doodle-doo! Barnyard Hullabaloo!
(remember this is a SPED class and some of us were absent the day we did this :)
)
The
Animals in the Barn
(tune: Wheels On the
Bus)
The cow in the barn
goes moo, moo, moo.
The duck in the barn
goes quack, quack, quack.
The pig in the barn
goes oink, oink, oink.
The dog in the barn
goes ruff, ruff, ruff.
The mouse in the barn
goes squeak, squeak, squeak.
The sheep in the barn
goes baa, baa, baa.
The horse in the barn
goes neigh, neigh, neigh.
~ Adapted by Cindy
Montgomery
Here
Is the Barn
(fingerplay)
Here is the barn (form
a roof shape with your hands)
Where I like to go
(walk in place)
It's as tall as a
tree (point up overhead)
And cozy, you know
(hug body with arms)
Here is the barn,
(make a roof shape with your hands)
I'll go there with
you (walk in place)
To pet a sweet lamb
(pretend to pet a lamb)
And cuddle it, too!
(pretend to hug lamb)
~Author Unknown
A
Horse
A horse can trot.
A horse can run.
A horseback ride,
Is lots of fun!
~ Author Unknown
Goats
Nanny goat, billy
goat.
What do you say?
"Maa, maa", silly
goats,
Run away!
~ Author Unknown
The
Cow
The cow is big.
The cow says, "Moo."
The cow makes milk,
For me and you.
~Author Unknown
Pigs
Pigs can oink.
Pigs can snort.
Pigs are fat,
And kind of short.
~ Author Unknown
Sheep
Sheep are quiet.
Sheep are cute.
Sheep give wool,
To make a suit.
~ Author Unknown
Geese
Geese can honk.
Geese can squawk.
Geese can fly,
Or take a walk!
~Author Unknown
Old
Rooster
Old Rooster woke up,
Just so he could say,
"How do you cock-a-doodle-do
today?"
~Author Unknown
The
Farm
The farm has a cow,
And a horse and a
pig.
And a sheep and a
goat,
And a barn so big!
~ Author Unknown
The
Higgy Piggy
(tune: The Hokey Pokey)
You put your right
hoof in,
You put your right
hoof out.
You put your right
hoof in,
And you shake it all
about.
You do the Higgy Piggy,
And you turn yourself
around.
That's what it's all
about!
Oink!
continue the song and
dance with:
You put your left
hoof in ..
You put your right
hamhock (hip) in ..
You put your left
hamhock in ..
You put your snout
in ..
You put your curly
tail in ...
~ Author Unknown
Five
Friendly Farmers
Five friendly farmers,
Wake up with the sun.
And the chores must
be done. (stretch and yawn)
The first friendly
farmer
Goes to milk the cow.
(pretend to milk a cow)
The second friendly
farmer,
Thought he'd better
plow. (pretend to plow)
The third friendly
farmer,
Feeds the hungry hens.
(throw feed to the chickens)
The fourth friendly
farmer,
Puts the piggies in
their pens. (pretend to shoo pigs)
The fifth friendly
farmer,
Picks the ripe corn.
(pick corn)
And waves to the neighbor,
When he blows his
horn. (wave)
Five tired farmers
(yawn and stretch)
Tumble into bed! (go
to sleep)
~ Author Unknown
Barnyard
Gate
Had a little rooster
by the barnyard gate,
That little rooster
was my playmate.
That little rooster
went cock-a-doodle-doo,
Dee, doodle, dee,
doodle, dee, doodle, dee, doo.
continue with ...
*cat went meow
*dog went arf
*duck went quack
*pig went oink
*sheep went baa
*cow went moo
*horse went neigh
~Author Unknown
Old
MacDonald's Vowel Farm
(tune: Old MacDonald's
Farm)
Old MacDonald had a
farm, A, E, I, O, U.
And on that farm he
had a cat, A, E, I, O, U.
With an /a/, /a/ here,
and an /a/, /a/ there,
Here an /a/, there
an /a/, everywhere an /a/, /a/.
Old MacDonald had
a farm, A, E, I, O, U.
continue with ..
*duck and /u/
*pig and /i/
*dog and /o/
~ adapted by Cindy
Montgomery
Farm
Mural: Create a big garden scene
with a barn and room for the barnyard. Have students create vegetables/plants
for the garden and animals for the barnyard. For the garden use tomato
plants with red construction paper tomatoes, corn stalks and ears of corn,
carrots, watermelons, etc. You can even add a scarecrow.
Addition
Math Mats: Create mud puddle
math mats by making two puddles on a piece of construction paper.
Leave enough room between the puddles to put a (+) sign. Laminate.
Mats can be used either horizontally or vertically, depending on what type
of problems are being done. Students place appropriate number of
pigs in each puddle to work the problem.
Ex. 2 + 2 =
___ (2 pigs in the first puddle, 2 pigs in the second puddle)
Counting
Mats: The same mud puddle
graphic or painting can be used to make counting mats as well. Cut
pieces of construction paper in half, and add a mud puddle to each.
Program each puddle with a number. Laminate. Students count
the correct number of pigs into each puddle.
National
Pig Day: March 1st
Red
Barn Word Wall: Enlarge a
barn shape onto red posterboard. Cut out and laminate. Add
farm vocabulary words with a vis-a-vis pen for a mini-Word Wall, or use
it for brainstorming during pre-writing activities.
Animal
Match: Using Ellison die-cuts,
cut farm animals from the appropriate color paper. Cut each animal
in half. Glue each cut half of the animal onto the very edge of an
index card, so that when put side-by-side, the two halves make a whole
again. Laminate the pieces. Place these in a center for the
students to match. Very young children may need whole animal "models"
to use when putting the two halves together.
Spelling:
Cut out farm animals using die-cuts and glue onto index cards. Provide
the students with magnetic letters, letter tiles, letter stamps, etc. to
use in spelling the name of the farm animal. The animal name can be
added to the picture for those students who need it.
Farm
Families: Use the animal names
to introduce Word Families
___ig
|
___en
|
___og
|
___at
|
___uck
|
___eep
|
pig
|
hen
|
dog
|
cat
|
duck
|
sheep
|
big
|
den
|
bog
|
bat
|
buck
|
beep
|
dig
|
Ben
|
fog
|
at
|
luck
|
deep
|
fig
|
men
|
hog
|
fat
|
suck
|
jeep
|
jig
|
pen
|
jog
|
hat
|
tuck
|
keep
|
rig
|
ten
|
log
|
mat
|
yuck
|
peep
|
wig
|
then
|
clog
|
gnat
|
truck
|
seep
|
twig
|
|
frog
|
pat
|
shuck
|
weep
|
|
|
|
rat
|
struck
|
|
|
|
|
sat
|
|
|
|
|
|
vat
|
|
|
Pocketchart
Spelling: Make picture cards
appropriate to the farm unit using clipart or a graphics program.
Program each card with the word written underneath. Laminate and
place the cards in a pocketchart. Students use cardstock letter tiles
to spell the word beside each picture card. (See the Literacy
Connections page for further explanation of the letter tiles that I
use with my pocketcharts.) More advanced students could use picture
cards without the word written underneath. For those students some
where in between, you could use the cards without the words, but have a
Word Bank for them to use.
Pocketchart
Math: Cut 3x5 index cards
in half and program with a number; laminate. Laminate appropriate
colored pieces of construction paper, then use the Ellison machine to cut
out farm animals from the laminated paper. Place animals on each
row of the pocketchart. Students count the animals and put the correct
number card at the beginning of the row.
You can also use these
same manipulatives, but in a different format. Place a number card
at the beginning of each row of the pocketchart. Students add the
correct number of animals according to the number.
Pocketchart
Addition: If your students
are working on beginning addition, you can use the animal cut-outs from
the activity above to practice in the pocketchart. Ex. 2 pig cut-outs
plus 2 more pig cut-outs equal. Use 3x5 index cards cut in half and
program with (+) and (=) signs; laminate. Then have the students
add the animals in each row and put in the correct numeral card after the
equal sign.
More advanced students can
practice writing number sentences for each problem as well.
More/Less Pocketchart
Activity: I created cards
(4x6 index cards) with stamps to be used in reinforcing more/less. Program
one card with the word "More" and another card with the word "Less". They
will be the headers for the two columns in the pocketchart. Then I created
9 sets of cards with stamps of things that could be on a farm. There were
two cards for each set. One set depictated more (3 carrots) and the other
set depicted less (1 carrot). The students sorted the cards into the
correct column by sets. For instance, the pocketchart would look like
this:
More |
Less |
3 carrots |
1 carrot |
4 cows |
3 cows |
This is a picture
of the carrots set:
Creating
and Interpreting Graphs: One of the MS
benchmarks is for the students to gather information, create, and interpret
graphs (not in those exact words). To reinforce that skill, I gave each
student a bag consisting of farm animals. (Make sure that you have
selected the animals so that when graphed correctly, there will be one type of
animal that is "more" and one type that is "less".
The student graphs the animals on
their graph. Then they remove each animal one by one and replace it with
an animal stamp. Once they've finished, I help them to complete the
questions at the bottom of the page. This is a page where I modeled how to
do the graph with them, that's why the stamped animals are already there.
In reality, there page only had the graph with the numbers and labels.
Poetry
Journals: Don't forget to
add all the poems and songs to their Poetry Journals. More on how
I use Poetry Journals on the Literacy Connections
page.
To
Market, To Market
To market, to market,
To buy a fat pig.
Home again, home again,
Jiggety jig.
To market, to market,
To buy a fat hot.
Home again, home again,
Jiggety jog.
~ Author Unknown
Use pink thumbprints
to decorate the nursery rhyme above for their Poetry Journals. Use
a black pen to add details to turn the thumbprints into pigs.
Farm
Riddles: Make up riddles
for the students to answer. Print them on index cards and keep them
in a tin pail. During calendar time/cirlce time each morning pull
out one riddle for "Riddle of the Day".
I am an animal,
And I have four legs.
I have a long swishy
tail,
And sometimes I have
horns.
What am I?
(cow)
I am a plant,
And I grow tall in
the garden.
I have ears,
But I can't hear.
What am I?
(corn)
I am a machine,
And I have 4 wheels.
The farmer rides on
me,
And I help him do
his work.
What am I?
(tractor)
I am a vegetable,
And I am orange.
Rabbits like to eat
me.
What am I?
(carrot)
I live in the barn,
And eat the corn.
I am small,
And I squeak.
What am I?
(mouse)
I sleep in the barn,
And I like to eat
hay.
I have 4 legs,
And I like to say
"neigh".
If I'm good,
Sometimes I get an
apple.
What am I?
(horse)
I am a fruit,
And I grow on trees.
I am red, round,
And smooth.
Watch out for worms!
What am I?
(apple)
I am big and red.
I'm made of wood.
Many animals
Come to visit me,
Especially when it
rains.
What am I?
(barn)
Some people think I'm
pink.
I really like the
mud.
I use it to keep cool.
I also like to eat
slop.
What am I?
(pig)
I am white.
I have a black face
and feet.
The farmer uses my
fleece
For wool.
What am I?
(sheep)
~ riddles written by
Cindy Montgomery
Hen
Art: Photocopy a hen onto
a page leaving room at the bottom of the page. Have the students
color the hen, then glue hay underneath her to form her nest. (There's
a link below somewhere that you can possibly use to make your hen.
You'll have to remove the egg from the picture. Look for the link
for "hen and egg coloring page".)
Mystery
Bags: Gather brown lunch
bags. Place one item in each bag : an ear of corn, hay, a boiled
egg, an apple, a carrot, a feather, a small milk carton, a strawberry,
a bandana, an onion, and any other farm items that you can think of.
Let the students take turns sticking their hand into a bag (without peeking)
and guessing what the item is.
Guest
Speaker: Scout around to
see if you can find a farmer to come in and speak to your class about their
job, their daily schedule, vacations, weather, etc.
Magnetic
Spelling: Glue a farm picture
to the beginning of a sentence strip, write the word beside the picture.
Do not trim the excess sentence strip. Laminate. Place the
sentence strips on a magnetic chalkboard, a filing cabinet, a storage cabinet,
or a large automotive oil drip pan (looks like a big cookie sheet).
Students use magnetic letters to spell the word beside where it is written.
More advanced students may not need the written word, and students in between
the two may use a Word Bank to help with spelling instead of the individual
written words on each strip.
Categorizing
Farm Families: More advanced students
can categorize word cards into Farm Families. Print the name of the
male, female, and baby of each farm family separate on 3x5 index cards;
laminate. Students sort the cards into families.
Ex. Pig Family~ boar,
sow, piglet
Ex. Chicken Family
~ rooster, hen, chick
Ex. Sheep Family ~
ram, ewe, lamb
Ex. Cattle Family
~ bull, cow, calf
Ex. Goat Family ~
billy goat, nanny goat, kid
You can even add the
sound that each family makes as well. (You'd add "oink" to the Pig
Family)
Haystack
Snack: Make Haystacks for
snack.
Pigs
In a Blanket Snack: Flatten
out canned biscuits and roll a cocktail sausage in about half of a biscuit.
Back until the biscuit is done. (You could also try this using canned
crescent roll dough.)
On
a Farm
(tune: London Bridge)
Animals live on a farm,
on a farm, on a farm.
Animals live on a
farm, with the farmer.
Cows and pigs live
on a farm, on a farm, on a farm.
Cows and pigs live
on a farm, with the farmer.
Goats and sheep live
on a farm, on a farm, on a farm.
Goats and sheep live
on a farm, with the farmer.
Hen and chicks live
on a farm, on a farm, on a farm.
Hens and chicks live
on a farm, with the farmer.
~ Author Unknown
Flannelboard
Story: This is a spin-off
story from Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman.
Are You My Mommy?
One day a little duck
hatches from its egg. He looks around but cannot find his mother.
"Where is my mommy?"
said the baby duck. "I must go and find her."
The baby duck sees
a cow and says, "Are you my mommy?"
"Why no, I am not
your mommy. I am a cow."
Then the baby duck
sees a pig and says, "Are you my mommy?"
"Why no, I am not
your mommy. I am a pig."
Then the baby duck
sees a horse and says, "Are you my mommy?"
"Why no, I am not
your mommy. I am a horse."
Then the baby duck
sees a big duck and says, "Are you my mommy?"
"Why yes, I am your
mommy." she answers. "I am so glad you found me."
And off they went together
for a swim in the pond, and they were very, very, very happy.
~ Author Unknown
~
Recipe
for Slop!:
Slops
(makes 24 half-cup
servings)
6 cups vanilla yogurt
3 cups cut-up fruit
3 cups crunchy granola
1 cup grated carrots
1 cup nuts
Mix together all ingredients.
Serve in a paper cup or small bowl ... spoons are optional! :)
Farmer,
Farmer, What Do You See? class book:
Have your students help write a spin-off of Brown Bear, Brown Bear.
You can start off with the farmer and what he'd see while traveling around
the farm.
pg. 1 Farmer, farmer,
what do you see? (picture of a farmer)
pg. 2 I see a pig looking
at me. (picture of a pig)
pg. 3 Farmer, farmer,
what do you see? (picture of the farmer again)
pg. 4 I see a cow looking
at me. (picture of a cow)
Or, you can do the
more traditional version ...
pg. 1 Farmer, farmer,
what do you see? (picture of a farmer)
pg. 2 I see a pig looking
at me. (picture of a pig)
pg. 3 Pig, pig, what
do you see? (picture of the pig)
OR, you can combine
the text of pgs. 2 & 3 and just use the one pig picture.
Another
flannelboard story:
Hens of Different Colors
This little hen is
BLACK. (add black hen)
She stands in the
barnyard by a big haystack.
This little hen is
RED. (add red hen)
She is very tired
and won't get out of bed.
This little hen is
BROWN.
She is feeling sad
and wearing a frown.
This little hen is
YELLOW.
She's friends with
the rooster; he's a handsome fellow.
This little hen is
WHITE.
She dances and plays,
oh what a sight.
This little hen is
PURPLE.
She spends her day
running around in circles.
This little hen is
GREEN.
She is the silliest
hen I've ever seen.
This little hen is
BLUE.
She lays eggs for
me and you.
This little hen is
PINK.
She goes down to the
pond to get a drink.
All of these hens live
at the farm,
Out in the big RED
barn. (add red barn)
~ Author Unknown
Clucking Hen:
Poke a hole in the bottom of a styrofoam cup and string a 20 inch piece of cotton
string through it. Break a tootpick in half and tie it to the end
of the string that will be inside the cup. Pull up on the string
so the toothpick anchors it in the cup. By wetting the string and
running it through their fingers with a jerking motion, students can produce
a sound that resembles the cluck, cluck of a hen. The wet string
vibrates, thus producing a sound that is amplified by the cup. (Frank Schaffer
Publications [FS-8057] Animals)
Pink
Pig-Sicles: Mix together
2 C plain yogurt, 12 oz. unsweetened frozen apple-cranberry juice concentrate,
& 2 t vanilla. Pour the mixture into small paper cups and insert
plastic spoons for handles. Chill in the freezer until set.
Makes 8 to 10.
Piggy
Art Project: Cut each student
out a pink pig. Have them glue it to a piece of paper and add a farm
scene. Then provide them with chocolate pudding or brown tempera
paint to paint mud onto their pig and picture. Of course, if you
use pudding, save some to eat!
Pig
Snouts: Cut toilet tissue
rolls in half and paint pink. Add a pink circle to the end with nostrils.
Punch two holes in the other end and add string or yarn to tie them on
with.
Playdough
Pigs: Provide each student
with a small chunk of pink playdough. Have them roll balls of different
sizes to form their own pig. Let harden.
Cutting:
Make a sheet with about 3 - 4 barns down the left side. Then put
3 - 4 animals across from them on the right side. Draw a line from
underneath each animals feet to the barn door. The first line should
be straight, the next live a little "hilly", the next live could be zig-zagged,
etc. The idea is for the lines to get a little more difficult the
further they go down the page. The directions will be to get each
animal to the barn by cutting along the lines.
An
Animal I Met In a Book: Allow
students to choose one animal from a favorite Farm Unit book and write
about the animal. Then they draw a picture of the animal.
Pocketchart
Punctuation: Cut out a pig
and a cow using die-cuts (or any two farm animals will do). Program
one with a period and the other with a question mark. Laminate.
Place both in the top row of the pocketchart to form the headings for two
columns. Type the farm sentences on the computer using a landscape
page format. Make the font as large as needed for your students and
make sure you leave enough room between the sentences. You don't
want your sentence strips to be too tiny. Print onto cardstock and
laminate. Cut the sentence strips apart. The students will
read the sentence and place each one under the correct punctuation.
For more advanced students,
add another farm animal to the pocketchart with an exclamation point.
Contractions:
Cut out farm animals. Program half with contractions and the other
half with the two words that make the contractions. Laminate.
Students match the contractions to the matching words.
For more advanced students,
cut out animals in sets of threes. Program on animal with the contraction,
then two more animals each with one of the words that makes up the contraction.
Students must find the two words that make the contraction and match all
three.
Counting
Center Activity: Using farm
animal stickers or stamps, stick/stamp animals on index cards (size
depends on the size of the stamps/stickers). Then cut additional
cards in half and program with the numbers to match the animals sets.
Laminate all. Students count the animals on the cards and match to
the correct number. *Note : You could also put the animals on red
barn cut-outs.
Mrs.
Wishy-Washy: The
Mrs. Wishy Washy page is now online! This
book/series is sooo much fun and ties in great with a Farm Unit.
What We Know About
the Farm Chart: This would be a good group culminating activity for
this unit. Divide chart paper into 6 columns with a heading.
Program each column with one of the following sub-headings: Animals,
Their Sounds, Farm Products, Animal Families, Facts About Animals, Other.
This chart can be completed in two ways. The first and easiest way
would be to have the students just state facts for each column. The
other way would be to have the students identify one animal at a time and
complete the chart going across based on that animal. For example
...
Cow/moo/milk, beef,
leather/cattle/Eats grass and hay/Doesn't give chocolate milk
Counting Mats:
Copy a barn pattern onto red construction paper. Cut out, program with a
number, laminate. Students count animal manipulatives to match the number
on the barn.
click on image to enlarge
Math Addition Mats:
Use the same barn pattern from above, but make addition mats instead of counting
mats. Reduce the pattern so that two barns will fit onto a green sheet of
construction paper. Copy the barns and glue to green paper. Use a
Sharpie to make a (+) sign in between the two barns. (You can make mats
for both horizontal and vertical math problems) Students place the number
of animals for the top number of their problem in the top barn, and the correct
number of animals in the bottom barn for the bottom number of their problem.
The problem for this mat would be:
3
+2
click on image to enlarge
Patterns:
Use farm animal die-cuts and have students glue them onto sentence strips to
form patterns.
click on image to enlarge
Farm
Style Breakfast: You can
wind up the farm unit by having a farm style breakfast. Enlist volunteers
to help you cook and serve any of the following breakfast foods:
eggs, bacon, ham, toast, biscuits, butter, grits, cheese chunks, strawberries,
apple and peach slices, jams/jellies, milk, apple juice. Of course,
serve the breakfast on red/white plaid tablecloths, with white napkins,
and a vase of wildflowers in the center of the table. And everyone
has to tuck their napkins in at the neck! :)
Ana's new baby!
Links:
The
Teacher's Bookbag
http://www.teachersbookbag.com/farm.html
New! 7.6.08
Work on a Farm (printable)
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/class/pdfs/2005S/050304_bp3.pdf
The
Farmer in the Dell
http://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/farmer/index.htm
Down
on the Farm
http://www.esc20.k12.tx.us/etprojects/formats/sampler/misc99/farm/Farm.html
Farmer
Grover
http://www.sesameworkshop.com/sesamestreet/games/play.php?contentId=1140
At
the Farm
http://www.sbcss.k12.ca.us/sbcss/specialeducation/ecthematic/farm/
Fun
Farm Activities
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/8911/farm.html
The
Little Farmers' Place - Agriculture for Young Children
http://littlefarmersplace.com/
Farm
Theme
http://www.teacherfeatures.com/themes/farm_theme.htm
SchoolExpress.com
(Farm Jigsaw Puzzles)
http://www.schoolexpress.com/funtime/jigsaws/farm01.asp
FWAG
- Virtual Farm Walks
http://www.fwag.org.uk/html/vfw.htm
Farm
Unit - North Canton Schools
http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~greentown/farmunit.htm
The
Farm Unit
http://www.ualr.edu/~teachered/farm/
Down
at the Farm Theme
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/themes/farm.shtml
Farm
Animals and Farm Theme Coloring Pages
http://www.first-school.ws/theme/animals/cp_farm.htm
Farm
Theme Unit
http://abcteach.com/farm/farmtoc.htm
The
Teacher's Guide Farm Lesson Plans & Theme Pages
http://www.theteachersguide.com/onthefarm.htm
DLTK's
Farm Animal Crafts for Kids
http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/farmlinks.html
Farm
Animals
http://www.dltk-kids.com/nina/farm_animals.htm
First
Farm Animals Preschool Activities and Crafts
http://www.first-school.ws/theme/animals/farm.htm
Farm
Animal Stick Puppets
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAFarmAnimalStickPuppets-DramaPK.htm
Let's
Make a Farm
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/OLetsMakeAFarmActivityIdeaPK.htm
Farm
Animals for kids and teachers - kiddyhouse.com
http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Farm/
Farm
Animals
http://www.kidsfarm.com/farm.htm
Pro
Teacher! Farm lesson plans for elementary school teachers in grades K-6
including dairy
http://www.proteacher.com/090006.shtml
Cows
& Pigs & Chickens & Such ... Debbie's Unit Factory
http://www.themeunits.com/Farm.html
Weaving
Technology into Thematic Units: The Farm
http://www.okaloosa.k12.fl.us/technology/training/tools/elem/farm.html
Farm
Animals
http://www.okaloosa.k12.fl.us/technology/training/tools/elem/haylesfarm.html
Farm
Life
http://www.okaloosa.k12.fl.us/technology/training/tools/elem/flemingfarm.htm
North
Dakota Reading Month: "Cultivate Reading"
http://ndreadon.utma.com/readingmonth.htm
Animals
on the Farm
http://mason.gmu.edu/~cregier/farmanim/farmanim.htm
Perry
Elementary School Kindergarten Farm
http://www.perry-lake.k12.oh.us/pes/GradeLevelWebsites/Kindergarten/kohl/Farm/
Farm.htm
Farm
Themed Math Pages
http://kidzone.ws/math/farm/index.htm
Ideas
for Who Took the Farmer's Hat? by Joan L. Nodset
http://www.ri.net/schools/Central_Falls/ch/heazak/farmhat.html
Farm
Coloring Pages
http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/farmcoloring/index.htm
Mrs.
Wishy Washy at The Virtual Vine
http://www.thevirtualvine.com/mrswishywashy.html
Mrs.
Wishy-Washy
http://www.ualr.edu/~teachered/farm/book1.html
Mrs.
Wishy Washy and The Wishy Washy Day
http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/Sandy/
Paws
for Reading (Mrs. Wishy-Washy)
http://nwscc.cc.al.us/wishy.htm
Lesson
Exchange: Shared Reading: Mrs. Wishy-Washy
http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/2102.html
The
Little Red Hen
http://www.ualr.edu/~teachered/farm/book2.html
Old
MacDonald Had a Farm
http://www.ualr.edu/~teachered/farm/book3.html
Old
MacDonald Had a Farm
http://www.theteachersguide.com/Songs/old_macdonaldold_macdonald_had_a.htm
Old
MacDonald Had a Farm: Songs for ESL Teaching
http://www.esl-lounge.com/songs/songoldmcdonald.html
Brooke's
Sing a Song Page: Old MacDonald Had a Farm
http://www.northern-pine.com/songs/oldmac.html
Singing
Babies Nursery Rhyme Lyrics: Old MacDonald Had A Farm
http://www.singingbabies.com/OldMac.html
Old
MacDonald Had a Farm
http://www.treca.org/schools/danville/elem/rowley/old_macdonald.html
Old
MacDonald
http://riverbee.com/caitlyn/oldmacdonald.htm
K-Crew's
Farm Unit
http://www.thekcrew.net/farm.html
Mini-Unit
on Tractors
http://www.kinderkorner.com/pics27.html#tractors
Crazy
About Cows
http://www.kinderkorner.com/pics27.html#crazy
Mud,
Mud, We Love Mud!
http://www.kinderkorner.com/pics27.html#mud
Down
on the Farm
http://www.kinderkorner.com/farm.html
Animals
Babies on the Farm
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/act/farm.html
Chicken
http://abcteach.com/AnimalShapes/chickenshape.htm
Clothespin
Horse
http://abcteach.com/abcbabysit/Projects/clothespin_horse.htm
Duck
http://abcteach.com/Animals/duck.htm
Goat
Shape Book Pattern
http://abcteach.com/AnimalShapes/goat.htm
All
About Cows for Kids
http://kiddyhouse.com/Farm/Cows/
All
About Turkeys for kids and teachers
http://kiddyhouse.com/Farm/Turkeys/
Sounds
of Farm Animals
http://kiddyhouse.com/Farm/animalsounds.html
Nursery
Rhymes Coloring Pages: Old MacDonald Had a Farm
http://www.niteowl.org/kids/mcdonald.html
Education
Center Activity: On the Farm or At the Zoo?
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/barn/zoo.html
Farm
Phonics Activity (Online)
http://kiddyhouse.com/Farm/farmphonics.html
Farm
Worksheets for kids
http://kiddyhouse.com/Farm/farmwsheets.html
Farm
Clipart
http://kiddyhouse.com/Farm/farmcliparts.html
John
Deere Kids' Corner
http://www.deere.com/en_US/compinfo/kidscorner/index.html
Down
on the Farm
http://www.angelfire.com/ma/1stGrade/pagefarm.html
House
of Hugs Farm Animals Coloring Page 2
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/8004/colorfarm2.html
Farm
Animal Booklet
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/8004/colorfarm.html
Farm
Animals Song
http://kiddyhouse.com/Farm/farmsong.html
Chicken
Dance Song for Kids
http://kiddyhouse.com/Farm/Chicken/Chickensong.html
Race
to the Barn
http://www.execpc.com/~byb/game.html
The
Farmer in the Dell
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/farmer.htm
Old
MacDonald Had a Farm (song)
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/mcdonald.htm
The
Barnyard Buddies Color Me Pages
http://www.execpc.com/~byb/paint.html
Old
MacDonald's Farm Coloring Book
http://www.weekiwis.com/omdfarm.html
DLTK's
Farm Animal Coloring Pages
http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mfarmposter.html
Farm
Snacks
http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/preschool_themes/farm/farm_snacks.html
Vegetables
- ChildFun's Food and Nutrition Themes
http://www.childfun.com/themes/veggie.shtml
Make
a Farm
http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/LESSONS/102.html
KD
PC Download: Make a Farm
http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/pc/makeafarm.html
Big
Dave's Cow Pages: Cow Clip Art
http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~dschmi1/cows/clipart.html
Cow
http://abcteach.com/AnimalShapes/cowshape.htm
Wow!
It's a Cow!
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/brooklyn/cows/
Ducks
for kids and teachers
http://kiddyhouse.com/Farm/ducks.html
Make
Way For Ducklings Traveling Buddy Backpack Project
http://www.angelfire.com/ma/makewayforducklings/nataliethomas.html#Make%20Way
%20For%20Ducklings%20Traveling%20Buddy%20Backpack%20Project
Ducks
http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/ducks.html
All
About Sheep for kids and teachers
http://kiddyhouse.com/Farm/Sheep/
Kid's
World- General Agriculture Coloring Book (online)
http://www.agr.state.nc.us/cyber/kidswrld/java/colorbig2.htm
Down
on the Farm Coloring Book
http://www.agr.state.nc.us/markets/kidstuff/dotf/colbook.htm
ANIMAL
LANGUAGE: A Children's Song by Duncan Wells
http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Cottage/5207/anilang.html
Life
on the Farm
http://www.shapebooks.com/sb/2389.pdf
Garden
Activities and Themes
http://www.childfun.com/themes/garden.shtml
Fun
on the Farm Unit
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/2221/farm.html
Animal
Coloring Pages to Print and Color
http://www.kinderart.com/kindercolor/coloring_animals.shtml
Can
Teach: Songs & Poems - On the Farm
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems55.html
Dairy
Facts!
http://www.mda.state.mi.us/kids/pictures/dairy/index.html
Adam's
Animal Sounds
http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/9496/farm.html
NASS
Kids Jokes
http://www.usda.gov/nass/nasskids/jokes/index.htm
Baa,
Baa Black Sheep - Enchanted Learning
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/Baabaa.shtml
Baa,
Baa Black Sheep at The Virtual Vine
http://www.thevirtualvine.com/baa.html
Hickety,
Pickety, My Black Hen - Enchanted Learning
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/Myblackhen.shtml
Little
Bo Peep - Rebus Rhymes
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/Bopeep.shtml
Little
Boy Blue - Enchanted Learning Software
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Littleboyblue.html
Mary
Had a Little Lamb - Rebus Rhymes
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/Mary.shtml
This
Little Piggy - Enchanted Learning Software
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/Piggies.shtml
Fun
at the Farm
http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/1481.html
Farm
Animals for Toddlers
http://www.magickeys.com/books/farm/index.html
Efarmlife.com
- cows, field trips, live video of cows
http://www.efarmlife.com/
FARM
http://www.angelfire.com/ga/prespecial/farmwebpg.html
Chicken
& Egg Coloring Page
http://mtcarmelbaptistchurch.org/images/coloringbook/easter/l-chick-egg.gif
Barn
http://www.adoptionworld.org/pip/barn.gif
ChildFun's
Animals Activity Theme
http://childfun.com/themes/genanimal.shtml
Kidz
Korner Barnyard Page
http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Tower/9730/Barn.htm
Farm
Animal Graphics Index
http://rats2u.com/clipart/alphabet/clipart_afarm.htm
Early
Literacy Technology Project - Farm Lesson
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/littlekids/archive/lesson_farmword.htm
KIDiddles
Song Lyrics: A Farmer Went Trotting
http://kididdles.com/mouseum/f023.html
KIDiddles
Song Lyrics: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
http://kididdles.com/mouseum/b001.html
KIDiddles
Song Lyrics: Chicken
http://kididdles.com/mouseum/c002.html
KIDiddles
Song Lyrics: Daisy, the Good Jersey Cow
http://kididdles.com/mouseum/d033.html
KIDiddles
Song Lyrics: Farmer Brown's Cow
http://kididdles.com/mouseum/f038.html
KIDiddles
Song Lyrics: Farmer in the Dell
http://kididdles.com/mouseum/f001.html
KIDiddles
Song Lyrics: Had a Little Rooster
http://kididdles.com/mouseum/h001.html
KIDiddles
Song Lyrics: Hinky Dinky "Double D" Farm
http://kididdles.com/mouseum/h006.html
KIDiddles
Song Lyrics: Little Bo Peep
http://kididdles.com/mouseum/l005.html
KIDiddles
Song Lyrics: Maggie the Cows Are in the Clover
http://kididdles.com/mouseum/m048.html
KIDiddles
Song Lyrics: Making the Hay
http://kididdles.com/mouseum/m053.html
KIDiddles
Song Lyrics: My Grandma's Farm
http://kididdles.com/mouseum/m064.html
KIDiddles
Song Lyrics: Old MacDonald
http://kididdles.com/mouseum/o009.html
KIDiddles
Song Lyrics: Six Little Pigs
http://kididdles.com/mouseum/s074.html
KIDiddles
Song Lyrics: The Barnyard
http://kididdles.com/mouseum/b057.html
KIDiddles
Song Lyrics: The Farmer
http://kididdles.com/mouseum/f056.html
KIDiddles
Song Lyrics: The Farmyard
http://kididdles.com/mouseum/f037.html
KIDiddles
Song Lyrics: White Sheep and Black Sheep
http://kididdles.com/mouseum/w062.html
KIDiddles
Song Lyrics: Who Has Seen Little Boy Blue?
http://kididdles.com/mouseum/w054.html
Kids
Farm
http://www.kidsfarm.com/
Mini Book printable
http://www.scholasticdealer.com/prodimages/sample/941127.pdf
Horse Coloring Pages
http://www.first-school.ws/theme/animals/cp_farm/cp_horse.htm
Authur's B&W Horse Clipart
http://members.fortunecity.com/equines1/horsesbw.htm
Egg-cellent Chicken Ideas
http://home.earthlink.net/~gbnewman/chicken_eggs.html
Chicken Little - A Children's Book
http://www.geocities.com/mjloundy/
The Story of Chicken Little
http://eleaston.com/chicken.html
Rosie's Walk Story Patterns
http://kizclub.com/storypatterns.html
Farm Animals (printable)
http://kizclub.com/animalcrafts.html
Barnyard Boggle (printable)
http://kidscrafts.suite101.com/article.cfm/BarnyardBoggleGame
Farm Animal Dominoes (printable)
http://kidscrafts.suite101.com/article.cfm/FarmAnimalDominoes
Pin the Pocket On the Farmer
(printable)
http://kidscrafts.suite101.com/article.cfm/PintheFarmerGame
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