BINGO (Learn It) - Super Simple Learning BINGO (Learn It) Language Focus Other songs about: alphabet/spelling , intonation/rhythm Letter recognition, simple spelling and English intonation patterns. BINGO (Learn It) Lyrics and Actions ♫ There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-o. [Pat your legs to the rhythm.] B-I-N-G-O [Point to the letter picture cards.] B-I-N-G-O And Bingo was his name-o. [Pat your legs to the rhythm.] (Place one of the "clapping hands" picture cards over the "B" picture card.) There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-o. *-I-N-G-O And Bingo was his name-o. (* = clap) (Place one of the "clapping hands" picture cards over the "I" picture card.) There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-o. *-*-N-G-O And Bingo was his name-o. (Place one of the "clapping hands" picture cards over the "N" picture card.) There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-o. *-*-*-G-O And Bingo was his name-o.

(Place one of the "clapping hands" picture cards over the "G" picture card.) There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-o. *-*-*-*-O And Bingo was his name-o. (Place one of the "clapping hands" picture cards over the "O" picture card.) There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-o. *-*-*-*-* And Bingo was his name-o. (Remove all the "clapping hands" picture cards.) There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-o. B-I-N-G-O And Bingo was his name-o. ♫ Preparation Print the picture cards and use them as you sing the song. Place the B, I, N, G, and O cards at the front of the room. Before singing the song, introduce or review the letters. As you sing the song, place the "clapping hands" picture cards over the letters one by one as you progress through each verse (or print a hand card on the back of each letter and flip them over). This will help students understand when and how many times to clap in addition to developing letter recognition skills.

Classroom Benefits "BINGO" is a popular kids' song that follows a familiar pattern. For each verse, remove one letter and replace it with a hand clap. It is a great introduction to spelling, good for listening comprehension and helps kids develop rhythm. Activity Ideas Pause the song before each verse and select a student to come up and cover (or turn over) the next card. 1 Instead of clapping, try rhythm sticks, tambourines, or any of your favorite noisemakers. 2 After you learn this song, you can sing it without the CD and practice spelling other words. For more information on this, see our blog post on a holiday version of BINGO . 3 Your Videos The Activity Idea Place - preschool themes and lesson plans Art Torn Paper Dogs Supply the children with a full sheet of white paper and half sheet of brown paper. Ask them to make a dog by tearing pieces of the brown paper and gluing them onto the white paper. Small amounts of other colored paper may be used. Dog Ear Headbands Have the children cut out two strips of paper that when connected will fit around their head. Connect the strips with glue or tape, (staples will catch the child's hair).

Supply the children with brown paper for ears and have them cut the paper however they want to and tape them on the outside of the headband. Ask the children what they would like you to write on their headband.. ie Doggie Fred, Puppy Sarah. Sticker Art Supply the children with stickers of dogs and have them place them on a piece of white paper. Stamp Art Beagle Rubber Stamp Paint like a Dog Supply the children with paper and paint and have the children paint like a dog might paint. You may want to have them put a pair of clean socks on their hands to help them imagine not having fingers to use. Sponge Art Supply the children with sponges of dogs and paint and have them dip the sponge in paint and press onto white paper. Dog Collages Have the children cut out pictures of dogs from magazines, and glue them onto a piece of paper for a collage. Paper Plate Dog Mask Have the children paint a paper plate brown. When dry have the children add facial and ears made from construction paper. Cut out holes for the eyes and add a Popsicle stick to the back of the plate near the bottom with glue. Dog Place Mat Have the children cut out pictures of dogs from magazines.

Have the children glue the pictures onto a piece of paper. Laminate the paper and use for a place mat. Dog or Bone Rubbings Cut dog shapes from paper doilies or sandpaper. Tape these shapes to the table. Have the children place a piece of thin white paper over the shapes and rub a crayon over the shape. Cookie Cutter Painting Put a small amount of tempera paint in a large shallow container. (A pie tin works well) Show your child how to dip the dog shaped cookie cutter in the paint and press onto a piece of paper to create a print. Clifford Cut white paper in the shape of a dog, have your children paint it red. Dog Bone Prints Supply the children with dog bones. Have the children dip the bones into paint and press onto paper. Dog Crafts Dog cards, paper bag puppets, dog masks, and more. Dog Stickers and More Includes 418 Stickers, 32 vellum quotes, 24 printed papers & 24 sheets of cardstock Math/Science/Games Bingo Dog from amazon.com. Dog or Bone Shape Match Up There are many ways to set this up depending on the skill level or the particular skill you wish to work on.

Try these different set ups: (Use your own dog or bone Shapes... Penguin, Seal, Bear etc) ---Cut out dog or bone Shapes from different colors of paper. Give each child one dog or bone Shape. Ask the children to find one person with the same color dog or bone Shape. ---Cut out dog or bone Shapes from different colors of paper. Cut the dog or bone Shapes in half using a puzzle type cut, like zig zag or interlocking pieces. Give each child one half of a dog or bone Shape, and ask them to find the person with the other half. Or Give the children two pieces and have the children make a circle, with one child that has one match on one side and the other match on the other side. You may end up with 2 or more circles depending on how the dog or bone Shape pieces are distributed. ---Cut out dog or bone Shapes from one color of paper. Cut the dog or bone Shapes in half using a puzzle type cut, like zig zag or interlocking pieces. Give each child one half of a dog or bone Shape, and ask them to find the person with the other half.

Or Give the children two pieces and have the children make a circle, with one child that has one match on one side and the other match on the other side. You may end up with 2 or more circles depending on how the dog or bone Shape pieces are distributed. ---Cut the dog or bone Shapes from one color of paper. Label one set of dog or bone Shapes with numbers, i.e. if you have 20 children, label the dog or bone Shapes with the numbers one to ten. The other half, draw one dot on one, two on another, and so on until ten. Give each child one dog or bone Shape and have them find the child with their match. ---Cut the dog or bone Shapes from one color of paper. Place matching stickers on two dog or bone Shapes. Give each child one dog or bone Shape and have them find the child with their match. ---Cut the dog or bone Shapes from one color of paper. Cut the dog or bone Shapes in half using a puzzle type cut, like zig zag or interlocking pieces. Place matching stickers on each half of a dog or bone Shape. Give each child one dog or bone Shape half and have them find the child with their match.

---Place matching dog or bone stickers on separate index cards. Give each child a card and ask them to find the child with their match. ---Try all the above, but in a file folder format. Glue one part of the dog or bone Shape to the file folder and laminate it's match. ---Cut four or five different dog or bone Shapes from different colors of paper. Give each child one dog or bone Shape and have them form groups depending on what color they have... red animals here... or have them form groups depending on what animal they have.. penguins here. Bean Bag Toss Have your child toss dog shaped bean bags into a box or a laundry basket. You can use masking tape to mark where the child should stand. Vote and Graph it Have the children vote for their favorite kind of dog and graph the results. Showing pictures of various breeds may help. Which kind of dog did most children like the best? Dog or Bone Shape Hop Cut out large dog or bone shapes from colored paper. Laminate them and cut them out. Place them on the floor and ask the children to hop from one shape to another. These may also be used at seat markers for group time.

Dog or Bone Hide and Seek Have all the children hide their eyes while you "hide" a dog or bone in the room. (It should be placed in plain view) Tell the children to find the dog or bone, but not touch it. Once they spot it they should sit back down in their spot. The first one to sit down again will get to hide the dog or bone. Dog or Bone Hide and Seek Play the game the same as above, except hide the dog or bone. Then tell the children individually whether they are "hot" or "cold" to the relation of the dog or bone. Allow the other children to have a chance to hide the dog or bone, and tell children whether they are "hot or cold". It may be a good idea to discuss the meaning of hot and cold before you play this game. Dog or Bone Shape Fishing Game Tie 3 feet of string to a wooden spoon. Attach a magnet to the end of the string. Cut and laminate many different colored dog or bone shapes from construction paper (not too big though). Attach a paper clip to each dog or bone shape. Spread the dog or bone shapes on the floor and let your child try to catch the dog or bone shape.

Have them try to catch biggest shape, or the brown one. For a twist, label the dog or bone shapes with letters or numbers. Dog or Bone Games The following games require you to cut out many different dog or bone shapes from construction paper. You may choose to laminate these dog or bone shapes so they last longer. Dog or Bone Sizing Cut out many different sized dog or bone. Ask the children to line up the dog or bone from largest to smallest. Dog or Bone Numbers Cut out ten shapes. Number them one to ten. Ask the children to line up the shapes from one to ten. Dog or Bone Colors Ask the children to sort the shapes by color. Dog or Bone Sort: Supply the children with plenty of dog or bone shapes of many sizes and colors. Ask the chidlren to sort the shapes by size, color or type. Ideas for dog plastic figures --Have the children sort the animals by size. --Have the children sort the animals by the kind they like the best to least. --Buy two or more sets and have the children sort the animals by type. --Supply the children with a balance and let them experiment. --Have the children count the animals. --Supply the children with cards with numbers on them.

Large playing cards work well. Have the children place the appropriate number of animals on each card. Ie 4 animals on the card that has a 4 (or 4 of diamonds) on it. --Put snow in your sand and water table (or clean dish pan) and let the children play with the animals. --Put the dog or in the block area. --Supply the children with paint and white paper, and give them a figure of a dog. Have them dip the animals feet in the paint them press on the paper to make dog tracks. Lacing Cards Cut colored poster board into a dog or bone shapes and punch holes around the edges. Then let your child lace yarn or a shoestring into the cards. Stamping Patterns Use dog or bone rubber stamps to create a simple pattern on the top half of a piece of paper. Ask your child to help you recreate the pattern on the bottom half of the paper. Tip: Start with one stamp, and have your child pick which stamp you used. Start slowly and work your way up to more complicated patterns. Songs and Group Time Knick Knack Paddy Whack Sing along with this rollicking take on a traditional tune that introduces instruments and counts from one to ten.

There are educational notes about instrument families as well as a simple music score at the end. Book with CD editions include song sung by acclaimed children's performer SteveSongs. Doggie The Dog Went Over the Mountain Tune: For He's a Jolly Good Fellow The dog went over the mountain, The dog went over the mountain, The dog went over the mountain, To see what he could see To see what he could see, To see what he could see The other side of the mountain, The other side of the mountain, The other side of the mountain, Was all that he could see Was all that he could see, Was all that he could see, The other side of the mountain, Was all that he could see! What time is it Mr Dog? Played like What time is it Mr. Fox? The Dog Song Sung to "The more we get together" If I could be an doggie an doggie, an doggie If I could be an doggie, What kind would I be?

a Collie, a Shephard, a Poodle, a Dalmation If I could be an doggie, I would be quite (child fills in the color) Talk about Dog Care Talk about what a dog eats, going to the Vet for shots, grooming, and the things an owner needs to do keep the dog healthy. Field Trip Ideas Visit a Pet Store or a Veterinarian's Office Have a parent bring in a dog Have a Veterinarian visit your center Have A Humane Society Member visit your center Have a parent read a story about a dog. Doggie Says: And Bingo was his name-o! There was a farmer had a dog, And Bingo was his name-o. (Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap) (Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap) (Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap) And Bingo was his name-o! This Old Man This old man, he played one, He played knick-knack on my thumb; Knick-knack paddywhack, Give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played two, He played knick-knack on my shoe; Knick-knack paddywhack, Give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home. This old man, he played three, He played knick-knack on my knee; Knick-knack paddywhack, Give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home. This old man, he played four, He played knick-knack on my door; Knick-knack paddywhack, Give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home. This old man, he played five, He played knick-knack on my hive; Knick-knack paddywhack, Give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home. This old man, he played six, He played knick-knack on my sticks; Knick-knack paddywhack, Give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home. This old man, he played seven, He played knick-knack up in Heaven; Knick-knack paddywhack, Give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played eight, He played knick-knack on my gate; Knick-knack paddywhack, Give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home. This old man, he played nine, He played knick-knack on my spine; Knick-knack paddywhack, Give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home. This old man, he played ten, He played knick-knack once again; Knick-knack paddywhack, Give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home. Dog Bone Jar For older children. Fill a small jar with dog bones. Ask each child to guess how many dog bones are in the jar. For younger children, limit the number of dog bones to less than ten. Record each child's guess. Count the dog bones. Dog Bone Jar for School Agers Provide three identical jars with pre-counted dog bones of 20, 30, and 40. Label these jars 20, 30 and 40. Place 20 to 40 dog bones in a fourth identical jar. Allow the children to examine all four jars before they guess.

Record the children's approximations. Count the dog bones. Musical Dogs Cut out dog or bone shapes from colored paper. Laminate them and cut them out. Place them on the floor. It is best for younger children to have more shapes than children. Play music and have the children walk around the room. When the music stops, each child needs to find an shape to stand on. Doggie Doggie, Where's Your Bone? Children sit in a circle. The teacher chooses one child to be the doggie, that child sits in the middle of the circle and hides their eyes. Then the teacher gives a toy to one child. The child hides the toy behind their back, while the other children pretend to have the toy, by holding their hands behind their backs. The children then chant: Doggie Doggie, Where's Your Bone? Somebody took it from your home Upstairs, Downstairs, by the telephone Wake up Doggie, Find your bone. The child in the middle now can uncover their eyes. The child guesses which child they think had the toy (bone) by pointing at the child. The child shows his/her hands. The child in the middle gets up to three guesses.

Regardless of whether the child in the middle was successful, the child who was hiding the toy, now sits in the middle. Bean Bag Toss Draw a dog shape on a piece of cardboard. Cut out the mouth. Have the children toss bean bags into the dogs mouth. Dog and Bone Match Cut out a variety of dog and bone shapes from different colors of paper. Have the children match the same color dog with the same color bone. How many Dogs do You Have Graph Ask the children how many dogs they have and graph the results. A variation may be how many pets do you have? How many dogs would you like? What dog do you like best? Different Kinds of Food Place different kinds of pets foods into plastic bags. You can use dog food, cat food, bird food, guinea pig food, etc. Have the children guess which food was made for dogs. Dog Bone Treats Add white frosting to the tops of elongated oval cookies for a "dog bone treat". Dramatic Play Pretend to be a Veterinarian Provide your children with stuffed dogs, play stethoscopes, and bandages for the children to play with.

Pretend to be a Pet Groomer Provide your children with stuffed dogs, empty shampoo bottles, brushes, ribbons, collars, plastic bathtub, and towels for the children to play with. Pretend to be a dog Provide your children with dog toys, empty boxes of dog food, and boxes for the children to crawl into. Dog items for Dramatic Play from amazon.com Skip counting songs Skip counting songs We found it was a great way to learn to multiply and divide. We have a tape, but it's really not necessary. You use both hands when singing the songs. So those very tactile, visual, auditory learners have great success with this method (Although as the sounds and facts became better known, the fingers were not used as often- or just sort of tap gently on the leg in a discreet manner ;-) ) However, I have to admit that I still use the "Dozen's song to count by twelve's. (and use my fingers, too) Each set of multiplication facts have a different song. We didn't add a new song until we had the prior one down very well. Then each time we'd sing one song, we'd sing all the others before it as well.

It kept us from forgetting any of the facts already learned. The Method: Put up a finger for each number, adding a finger with each new number. Make sure you always start with both hands in fists and make sure you always add fingers in the same way. So the student knows immediately from looking at his hands where he is. The same songs work for multiplication and division. Kate put the words to melodies that she was enjoying at the time. We had no song for ones....since they are just counting...but do that and show how to pop up one finger at a time when you say the new number. i.e. "1" (put up one finger) "2" (put up another finger, too) "3" ( add another finger, keeping the first two up, etc) all the way to 10 with all ten fingers out of the fist. This same method is used with each of the songs. 2's Kate knew those already so she just said them, but called them doubles 3's (first song we figured out) sung to the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb".

"three, six, nine, twelve, fi-ifteen, eeeighteen, twen-ty-one (that should take you through the melody line for "Mary had a little lamb, little lamb little lamb") twenty-four and twenty se-ven all the way to 30." (The first 3 is said where you would say "Ma", the 6 is sung where you would normally sing "ry". 9 is sung where you would normally sing the word had" etc.) 4's sung to Old MacDonald make it fit the rhythm of the tune "4, 8, 12, 16, she knew....no song, just practiced them rhythmically 6's she was dreading this one so I made it up for her. sung to "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" from Wizard of Oz "Sixes are not so hard!, yes they are! (Kate sung that line) No, they're not! (I sung that line) Sixes are not so are to do.

6, 12 and 18, 24, 30, 36 and 42 ooo, 48 (shout that number) 54 (whisper that one) 60 and that is all, 60 is at the end and now you are through with them so ....sixes are not so hard, Yes, they are, no they're not. Sixes are not......." that melody repeats itself so we would end up singing it over and over and over...it became a favorite game of ours 7's sung to the tune of "Bingo" (there was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name O ) "7, 14, 21, 28 and 35. 42, 49, 56 and 63. 70 (clap, clap, clap) she knew so we said them with fingers added just for reinforcement 11's once again only said, but using fingers 12's sung to "I Feel Pretty" from the musical South Pacific, I think. "I like dozens, many dozens. I like 12, 24, 36.

48, and from 60 I will then go on. 72, 84, 96, 108, one-twenty. One hundred thirty-two, one hundred forty-four" For division you use the same songs, but, Kate identifies the "number in the box" (what you are dividing) and knows it is her "stop number" then she knows to sing the song that is the number in front of the box. She then counts the fingers she has up when she got to the "stop number" and that's her answer. When multiplying she knew she had a choice of two songs....and I let her always choose which one she'd sing to get her answer. Well that's it One reason it worked well, I think is because it took us several different melodies for each one til we found a sound that would work our for that number group. By the time we found a song that would work out, we both knew the skip counting well! Let me know if you have questions and need more explanation. We made up lots of songs for lots of things, like article adjectives, etc.

The secret is making sure you don't add a new song til the preceding one is pretty well firm in their minds. We also would vary speed and volume in the songs...anything to make the number stick in your mind. MK At one point we had a tape for them, that you could use to sing alongï¿½.let us know if it would be helpful Mdo651@airmail.net Free letter B book of rhymes and songs - The Measured Mom The Measured Mom Education resources for parents and teachers First Name We love to sing! That’s what I created my free printable letter books of rhymes and songs . Today I’m sharing our letter B book. (This post contains affiliate links.) My rhyming letter books are easy to assemble and print! Here are the songs and rhymes you’ll find in our letter B book: Here is the Beehive But where are the bees? Hiding inside, Where no one can see. Here they come, out of their hive… 1, 2, 3, 4, 5… BZZZZZZZZZ! Bubbles fat and bubbles round Bubbles on my toes and nose Blow a bubble, up it goes! Bubbles floating all around.

Bubbles falling to the ground. Baa Baa Black Sheep Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full! One for my master, one for my dame, And one for the little boy Who lives down the lane. Baa, baa, black sheep, Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full. Three Blind Mice Three blind mice, three blind mice. See how they run, see how they run. They all ran after the farmer’s wife Who cut off their tails with a carving knife. Did you ever see such a sight in your life? As three blind mice. There was a farmer had a dog, And Bingo was his name-o! B-I-N-G-O! B-I-N-G-O! And Bingo was his name-o! Rockabye Baby Rockabye baby, in the treetop. When the wind blows, And down will come baby, Cradle and all. Download your free book by clicking HERE . How to assemble my Little Letter Books: Print the document in color (if you desire) on cardstock. Be sure to print pages 2-3 front to back (page 1 is my Terms of Use). You will need only one piece of paper.

Cut an even line across the center of the page. Fold the two sheets to make a book. Make sure the cover is in front, and insert the other page inside. Staple with a long arm stapler . Click on the image below for more ways to learn about letter B: And don’t miss our entire Little Letter Book collection! Did you know that can get all the letter books in a single file? What a time-saver! Learn nursery rhymes in the car! We love these. © 2014 – 2016, Anna Geiger . All rights reserved. Did you like this post? Get even more freebies! Join 45,000 readers and get access to our exclusive subscriber library. It's free! Old MacDonald's Farm at The Virtual Vine 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.

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~ 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 - 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) S

CHOOLDAYS, 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: 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 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 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, Shake it, shake it all around. Shake it high Shake it, shake it to and fro. Shake it over 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 (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, 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 . 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 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 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. 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 1. sway to lines 1 and 2 2.

then pretend to milk and collect eggs ~ Author Unknown (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 ...

*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. 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 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: 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 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 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 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 ...

*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 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: 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 buy a fat pig. Home again, home again, I have a black face and feet. The farmer uses my fleece For wool. (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 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 ~ 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: 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 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! :)

Question: Finish this line from a popular kids song: There was a farmer had a dog, and ____ was his name-o!
Answer: Bingo