Farm – 3.2 – Add A Little

Movement Moment

Animal Herding

Supplies:

• Toy farm animals or alternative. Consider:
  • Stuffed animals
  • Plastic animal toys
  • Balls
  • Balloons
  • Pompoms
• A large basket, or hula hoop, etc. (See Prep)

Prep:

• Designate an area as the “animal pen”. This could be a large box, a fenced-off area, a hula hoop, or a couch.

Time to Play:

• Gather your children and explain that on a farm, farmers build fences to keep animals safe from getting lost or getting into other mishaps. Sometimes, however, the animals escape and the farmer has to herd them back into the pen.
• Show your children the animals and the pen. Explain that their job is to herd the animals back into the pen when they escape.
• Have fun running around to gather the animals into the pen.

Art Activity

Old McDonald Farm Puppets

Supplies:

• Colouring sheet of several farm animals. I have a free two-page colouring sheet below for you to download and print. It contains eight farm animals.
• Crayons (or pencil crayons)
• Scissors
• Optional: Popsicle sticks
• Optional: Tape

Download the Old McDonald Farm Puppets Colouring Sheet – S J Little

Prep:

• Print the colouring sheet – one copy per child

Time to Create:

• Invite your children to the table and encourage them to colour the farm animals.
• Once your children are satisfied that they have completed colouring the farm animals, cut them out. This could be done by the adult or by the child with supervision. (For tips on teaching children to use scissors, click here.)
• Optional: Tape a popsicle stick to the back of each farm animal to give them handles.
• Now you have farm animal puppets.
• Sing Old McDonald Had A Farm using the farm animal puppets to indicate which animal is being sung about.

Five-Minute Focus

Let’s Learn the ABCs

Letters of the Unit

• D E F

Letter Activity

•  Air Tracing – Using your finger, reach up and write the letter in the air. Encourage your children to copy.

For other letter teaching techniques, visit: https://sjlittle.ca/preschool/teaching-the-abcs-at-circle-time/