Farm Week

This week the children enjoyed creating farm animals for our bulletin board. We have to be very watchful of the animals that are trying to get out of the fence. Be sure to notice the magic chickens that lay eggs that spell the children’s names.

Many related items were available for play:

Every day we sang a song using stuffed farm animals as prompts. The children loved this song and sang with gusto. I encourage you to sing this at home - you’ll have quite a treat. When you start the words, they will know the tune.

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‘I went to visit a farm one day. I saw a cow across the way. And what do you think I heard it say? Moo, moo, moo. Moo, moo moo.”
….sheep….Baa, baa,baa

…pig…Oink, oink, oink

…horse…Neigh, neigh, neigh

…dog…Woof, woof, wook

….duck…Quack, quack, quack

….cat….Meow, meow, meow

…goose….Honk, honk, honk

…rooster….Cockadoodle doo, cockadoodle doo, cockadoodle doo,

I read the lovely story Farmer Will. Will loves to play with his toy farm animals. In the story, he brings them outside every day, where the animals can ‘stretch’ and he appears to play with live animals. In the end, he brings them back inside as they revert to toy animals. I used props to recreate the action in the story. The children were mesmerized hearing the story while watching the props. Some children wanted to know how the animals became real and I told them the animals were real in Will’s imagination. Your children are at the cusp of identifying fact from fiction, true or false, real or pretend.