This week was the first
of our two-week study about Farm Animals! We focused on fiction books this week
and will focus on non-fiction books next week. We started the week by reading
the book On A Farm by Alexa Andrews. After reading the book we build our
own farm on the felt board. I had each student come up and put a part of the
farm onto the board. During centers the students water colored a picture of a
farm.
A special center we had
this week was our vet center! I had a doctors kit, a clipboard with pen, and
beanie babies to use as patients! The students loved taking care of these
animals!
Tuesday morning we had
a surprise visitor on our playground, a black chicken!! Me and a co-worker had
to chase it off the playground, it was pretty humorous! It was the perfect week
for it to show up on our playground since we were learning about farm animals
:) Also, for lunch we were having chicken nuggets that day so the kids think we
ate the chicken haha.
During our lesson we
read the book Meow Said the Cow by Emma Dodd. This is a silly book about
a mischievous cat who casts a spell on the farm animals that mixes all of their
voices up! After reading it I let the kids listen to different farm animal
sounds on my ipad and guess what they were. I then had each student come up and
make his or her own farm animal sound for us to guess. During centers we played
a fun game! It is called “Uno Moo”. It is the same concept of Uno but instead
of cards we use different colored farm animals. It was simple enough for them
to understand and they loved it!
This week we have been
learning about the letter Q. Thursday morning we practiced writing it in our
salt trays. We had some great Qs!
During lesson we read
the book Little Lamb Lost by David Bedford. After reading, I asked the
students if they had ever been lost before and what we should do if we get
lost. During centers we made a little lost sheep of our own!
I also had the students
build a pen for their farm animals (beanie babies) in another center. These
boys made some awesome pens!
After lunch we had our
bible lesson. We read the story of Noah’s Ark and then did an ark craft. The
students glued a cut out picture of the ark onto their blue construction paper,
made some waves and rain with a blue crayon, and then glued animal crackers
onto their boat.
Friday was the day
before one of my student’s birthday! For morning work we all made him a card.
During our lesson we
read the book Hogwash! by Karma Wilson. After reading it we did a
rhyming activity. I had a poem that we read called “Big Red Barn”. The poem was
made to guess different farm animals. The students had to figure out what the
farm animal was by listening for the beginning sound and a word that rhymed
with it. They did an excellent job figuring out the rhyming animal name!
During centers we did
some finger painting with pudding, which is always a hit! I had the students
first trace the words on their paper (Pigs like mud). Then I had them color
their pig pink and then finally they could paint some “mud” on it with the
chocolate pudding.
Along with our vet
center, I had some materials for a pet groomer. The students enjoyed “bathing”
their pets and giving them hair cuts!
Stay tuned for our
second week of farm animals!
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