The importance of instilling the concept of...
This month's KidsSoup theme emphasizes the importance of farms. Many preschool or kindergarten children may have never been on a farm--in fact, they might even not know what a farm is. Through listening to farm-realted books and felt stories, sorting and matching pictures of foods and animals, participating in sensory activities, playing games, making crafts, singing songs, and performing in movement activities, children will form a basic knowledge of what a farmer does and what foods come from a farm.
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Focus Book: A Day in the Life of a Farmer
Through discussion, listening to books and felt stories about farms and farmers, and participating in farm-related activities, children will learn about what a farmer does and the animals that live on a farm.
Focus Book: Jobs on a Farm (World of Farming)
Using pictures, songs, and games, child will use reasoning skills to determine the jobs a farmer does and does not do on a farm. They will also play a board game using letter tiles and create a hay bale craftivty to practice making and writing words that end in -ay.
Focus Book: John Deere: Touch and Feel: Tractor (Touch & Feel)
Children will learn through discussion, exploration, and hands-on activities, how tractors are integral to the running of a farm. They will learn the parts of a tractor and sight words, make a tractor using shapes, and use their hands, toy tractors, and digging implements to experience what a farmer does to get the soil ready for planting.
Focus Book: Big Red Barn
Through listening to books and felt stories, singing songs, and reading the booklet Open the Farm Door, children will learn about the animals that live on a farm and the sounds they make. They will develop a farm animal vocabulary, and then they will practice writing the farm animal-related words and completing sentences with them.
Focus Book: Tops & Bottoms (Caldecott Honor Book)
Through listening to the book Tops & Bottoms, viewing pictures, playing a circle time game, and creating a craft, children will learn about the plants that grow on a farm and which ones grow below the ground and which ones grow above the ground. They will also play a game in which they "plant" play dough potatoes to practice their letter recognition.
Focus Book: On the Breakfast Table (KidsSoup Emergent Reader)
In this fun culminating lesson and the accompanying activities, children will discover that many of the foods they eat for breakfast--both plant and animal-based--come from farms. They will work with a partner using a rubber glove to simulate milking a cow as they create an artwork, they will make homemade butter, they will match pictures of breakfast foods to their source, and they will participate in a hoedown, dancing to bluegrass and country music.
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