Farm Unit Week 4 Click, Clack, Moo (Feb. 6-10)

Last Week of Farm Unit

Weekly Book and Vocabulary

Click, Clack, Moo

Why do farmers have animals?

(letter, snoop, furious, typewriter, electric, demand)

Literacy Small Groups

Beginning Sounds on the Farm- We will review listening for the same beginning sounds in words. We will say three words and decide which two have the same beginning sound.  We will place the words that begin with the same sound in a barn and the one that doesn’t belong will be thrown in the mud! 

Lowercase Letters- We will be working on lowercase letters m and n this week. We will be using magnet boards, colored salt trays, chalk boards, or shaving cream to form these letters within our small group time. We will then expose the children to the Fundation lines. Fundations is the curriculum used in kindergarten. We will be exposing the students to the language (ie. sky line, plane line, grass line, and worm line) when forming our letters.

Sorting Food from the Farm- We will sort food from the farm based on how we get it. For example, milk comes from an animal and corn comes from a plant. Then we will cut and glue the corresponding word to go with the pictures based on initial letter sounds.

Journals- Writing about our favorite animals from the farm. We will use "ear" spelling by writing the letters we hear in words.

Handwriting/Letter Groups

-Handwriting Without Tears Program-Diving Letters books(m and n)

Math Small Groups

How Many Legs?- We will practice recognizing and comparing quantities without counting.  Using toy farm animals, we will look closely at their legs.  We will sort them based on the number of legs they have using the terms “more, less and equal.”  Then we will draw the animals with the same number of legs.

More or Less Bean Toss-We will play a partner game to practice recognizing quantities to five and determining quantities that are more or less.  Using a dot dice students will take turns rolling and placing the quantity on their mats.  They will record their turns on their sheet and determine who had the most beans for each round.

Click Clack Moo Math-Using cow counters and barn math mats, we will practice more/less/equal concepts by counting and placing our cows on our mats.  We will compare quantities and work to make them equal.    We will also learn about number parts.  Use this activity with your child to extend math learning at home.

Farm Animal Ten Frames- Animal Pictures with a ten frame will be placed around the room with the ten frame filled with numbers up to 10.  We will find the animal and record the number in the ten frame on our clipboards.  

Centers

Art Table-Farm animal books continued

Block Area- farm animals

Sensory Table- Grass (Easter Grass) and animals

Book Area- Exploring Books about community

Easel-Markers and paper

Writing Table-Farm Lists

Dramatic Play- Office / computers/ envelopes/ letter

Math, Puzzles, and Manipulatives-farm puzzles

Rug- Tracks and Vehicles

Science/Social Studies/Math Circle Concepts

-Tracks that vehicles make

-Wheat from the farm

-Good for you food
-Take Away Stories

Preschool Life Skills

- We will be focusing on our curriculum of Preschool Life Skills during this time to help us transition into our new classroom.

1. When I call your name, stop what you are doing, look at me, and say, "Yes".

2. When I give you an instruction, do it "right away"

(Ask your child what do you do when your teacher tells you to do something.  They should reply "I do it right away." You can reinforce this at home too.  "Put your legos away and do it "right away""

3. When I give you  instructions, do them "right away" (multi-step directions)

4. When something is too hard say "Help me please"

5. When you want something from a teacher or friend, say "Excuse Me" to get their attention
6 When someone is in your way or has something that you want, say "Excuse Me, May I__________?" to get what you want.