Farm Week

Thanks to my sister-in-law, we had a lot of farm-themed activities to play with this week.  It was nice to have some ready to go without me needing to print, color or laminate.

This one matched capital and lower case letters using different adult/baby farm animals.

We got all the farm toys out to play with

and also used them for painting

We used wheat to practice numbers, counting and measuring

we also played this feed the chickens game from prekinders.  I put the kids on teams so the big kids could help the younger kids count the right amount of corn kernels, based on the number they rolled on the dice.

The kids love solving mysteries.  This time we did the 'mystery of the missing cow'.  The kids started by making predictions about what kind of cow they might be looking for.  They wrote things like: real or pretend (or just the first letter of the word.), what color, if it would make noise, quiet or noisy etc.  We then searched for the cow.  Once we found the cow the kids drew a picture and decided if it was what they had predicted it would be.

Brielle requested a farm lunch.  For this one, I cut a quesidilla and used food-safe markers to decorate it to look like a barn.  We then used celery for grass and hot dogs for horses to put in the barn doors.

I forgot to take a picture of our books before taking them back.  I remember the kids loved the books by John Himmelman.  He wrote Chickens to the Rescue, Pigs to the Rescue and Cows to the Rescue.  They also liked this book by Nicholas Harris called A Year at a Farm.  There are pictures to search for on each page, which is always a favorite activity for my kids.