Farm Time!

There is one word to describe this time of the year:  busy!  It feels like the sprint to the finish and there is still soooo much I want to do and teach your little ones!  I would love to share with you some things we did when learning about farms!

In the dramatic play center I had a bunch of farm animals and farm accessories and they had to make their own farm.  They loved this and could have probably played happily for hours!

We made a chart about what we knew about farms and what we wanted to learn.  At the end of the week we sat down and talked about all that we had learned.  I have such a smart group of kids.  <3

We practiced our counting and writing numbers to 20 by the game below.  They had to count how many dots were on the horse and then write the number.  They are really doing great with this!

We listened to farm stories!  Listening to stories has so much value for these children.  It is fun now, because most of them can follow along and they notice sight words and other things within the text!  I started a new activity after listening centers to focus on their comprehension of the story as well.  They have to rate how much they liked the story, and then write and draw about their favorite part.  I love, love, love this and feel like it is so worthwhile to the listening activity. :)

Of course, we  READ, READ, READ!!!!!!! :)

We have started learning about time, so I made this game where they had to read the digital clock and then draw the correct hands on the analog clock.  I was pleasantly surprised at how well they did this activity.  :)  We have started time to the nearest hour and we will learn time to the nearest half hour.

The students made a Farm Fact Book this week as well.  Every day we did a different page.  They had to find the correct words in their word bank and write it in the sentence.... making sure their sentence made sense.  Loved this!

Working hard on the sheep page. :) 

Cutting out eggs for the chicks!

Hmmmm.... where is that word?

Painting mud!

Cutting grass for the cow to eat.

 

"This is the way we churn our cream, churn our cream, churn our cream..... this is the way we churn our cream, when we make BUTTER!"  Oh yeah!  We made butter after learning about cows.... and the kids loved, loved, loved it! 

Shake, shake, shake!!!

Our fabulous finished BUTTER!

Time to eat! 

As usual.... we did SOOO much more than what is pictured.  We had a wonderful interactive writing about pigs.  I sent it home today so check it out!  They were BEAUTIFUL!!!  We read a ton of farm stories.  We learned three new sight words:  could, but, who.  We did a math activity about counting sheep.... and so much more!  Farms are fun!  :)

Before I bid this post adieu, I must tell you about something tragic (at the time) that happened last week.  So, I sit down to get ready to make an awesome slideshow and post about our Putnam Museum field trip.  I was excited to share all of my pictures! I take out my memory card, pop it into my card reader, wait.... wait.....wait for the pictures to pop up in iphoto.... and then, nothing.  Not a one.  I try again.  Still nothing.  I brought my nice camera too!  I was pretty devastated.  It has once again reaffirmed in my mind that technology can be your greatest friend, or biggest enemy.  I still have no idea where those pictures went.  **sigh**  So, I am vowing to bring TWO cameras to the zoo!  This cannot happen again! :)

Oh, and despite what one of my sweeties thinks, yes, I would still like you to practice money with your child even though we don't do it every day in class anymore. ;)

Have a great week!