Pronoun: Everyone

The main focus of the farm unit was animal names. We focused on the adult animals and the baby animals as well as the sounds each one made. It was a fun, noisy time in my classroom!! Each of the following crafts was made using the same lesson plan (geared toward each animal). But the overall concept was the same. So, I am only typing the lesson plan once! We focused on one animal a day.


Language Goals
Expressive language: pronoun everyone, adjectives big, medium and small. Color review
Receptive language: Who questions


To start off each lesson, I showed the students a picture of the animals we would be making. We talked about the animal. What color, which one is big, small, etc. Then holding up the items we would be using to make the craft (for the pig, big paper plates and circles and small ones).
T: What will we use to  make the mommy pig? The big paper plate or the small paper plate?
S: the big paper plate!
T: Who needs a paper plate?
S: Everyone needs a paper plate!
T:What color is the pig?
S: The pig is pink.
T: What do we need to do to our paper plate?
S: Paint it pink!
T: Who will paint the plate pink?
S: Everyone!
T: Will we use the big circle or the small circle for the mommy pig?
S: The big circle! 
T: Who needs a pink circle?
S: Everyone needs a pink circle! (draw the face on first then put right on when paint is wet. we also added ears)
Repeat process for piglet.


Pig

Piglet





For Centers and morning work we laced and stuffed a pig. Super cute! The printout is from Scholastic Biggie Patterns Favorite Themes

The kiddos also painted pigs in mud! Using the same pattern, the kiddos cut it out and glued it on brown paper. Then finger painted mud on the piggy!

Cow day was next.

We used corks to make the spots. Super cute!
For centers, the kiddos played a dice game and colored in the dots on the cow and used the dabbers to make silly cows, again the pattern came from Scholastic Biggie Pattern Favorite Themes.
Great cow activities can be found here

Next up, hen, rooster and chick.
I found the patterns at Making Learning Fun I did enlarge the biggest one a bit to make the contrast bigger between the rooster and the hen. I copied the patterns on sturdy white paper. Then We painted. I started with the chick, yellow. Then we painted the hen brown and the rooster black. The colors blended quite nice because we used the same brush for all three!! After they chickens dried, the kiddos added faces and yarn to the rooster.

More chicken activities can be found here

Sheep and lamb, I think turned out to be my favorite!! We made paper plate sheet and toilet paper tube lambs. You will need lots of cotton balls and glue!!!

The templates for the sheep heads can be found here

For centers the kiddos painted sheep with Q-tips. I copied sheep on black paper and the kiddos used white paper to dot paint the sheep.

Last animal we focused on was horse and foal. The template can be found here
I used craft sticks instead of clothes pins.

For centers, the kiddos made shoe print horses and sponge painted horses. The directions can be found here

I used the same template for the sponge painted as the language lesson.