We introduced the theme with different pictures of farm animals and print, songs, books and short 1-2 min videos about farms, and how to milk a cow.
Tuesday Swimming
Classroom outside all week
Art
Monday- Painted on paper with red paint and added craft sticks to make a farm
Wednesday-Sheep- painted with koosh rings and white paint on black paper
Thursday- stamped with baby chick foot stamps on white paper and yellow and orange paint
Friday- Finger painting with brown paint on pink paper
Math
Colored small farm animal counters with pink pig containers with small scoops to organize by color or same animal, number magnets with cookie sheets to practice counting and number recognition, number wooden blocks and various size colored blocks to build, make patterns, name numbers, learn new numbers and work together with peers, and colored math tiles for lining up, organizing by color and/or create a structure.
Motor Development
Farm animal paper with scissors to practice finger/hand grasp, eye-hand coordination, various size pool noodles and string for lacing, colored eggs and egg cartons for opening and closing, filling up carton sorter, farm animal memory matching,
Sensory Table
Oatmeal, farm animals, various size cups
Activities
Old McDonald felt board
dry erase sentence boards and markers
Down on Granpa’s farm song and movement
Farm animal picture cards with facts
Name the animal sound
Play Ball
Balloon Toss
Ok and Not Ok picture cards
Hands are not for Hitting/tails are not for pulling book and review
Dancing raisins Friday
Milking a cow- we pretended to milk a cow by filling a glove with milk and squeezing the fingers to watch the milk come out into the bucket- we also watched a short video on how to milk a cow.