Fun on the Farm!

We began with the usual sign-in and then going upstairs and outside to check the weather. Even the children said it was time for us to "find the sun", as once again it was cloudy and rather cold. Someone even noticed that our breath made "little clouds in the air".

Today's lessons were focused on farm animals, and we sat down to listen to our first book: The Noisy, Noisy Farm by Stephanie Stansbie. The children loved being able to push the buttons that made the realistic animal sounds in the book: a cat, duck, sheep, cow, chicks and a rooster. It was also a chance for them to predict each sound, and the only one that gave them difficulty was the "Cock-a-doodle-doo" of the rooster.

Everyone gathered around to push the buttons when ALL the animals cried out for the rooster.

For our movement this morning we were to move like the animals in the book. I would name one of the animals and the children moved as they thought that animal would move. And move we did!

In the picture below the children are being the duck and flapping their wings.

Here they are being the sheep or the cow.

Then it was over to the craft table to make some roosters to take home. I had printed a rooster onto heavy card stock paper and using the rooster in our story as a guide the children selected colors and found the correct areas to add color to their roosters. Once the coloring was done we used our glue and added feathers to the wings and tails.

See how cute our roosters look!

After all that hard work it was time to listen to another story. This time it was a silly story about a herding dog who lived in the city and had to spend a lot of time napping and was tired of doing this, so he started rounding up the rug and the chairs. This bothered the parakeet who told him to go out and find a cow. The problem was, the dog did not know what a cow looked like, and so he assumed many different animals were cows and that got him into trouble each time. The book is Find a Cow NOW! by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel and you need to get it from your local library to see how the story ends.

As a take-home project I had a cow printed on heavy card stock paper and suggested they put spots on it... perhaps with a Q-tip and black paint.

Next week is our last session until later in January or February. I hope you are able to come for a couple Christmas stories and some fun.

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Mitzi
Children's Librarian