In week's 8 and 9, Kindy Blue and Kindy Red moved on to learning about farm animals and why having farms are so important.
First we brainstormed all about the animals and objects that you can find on a farm. The song " The Farmer in the Dell" taught us about all the hard work you have to do on a farm to get all the daily jobs done. The children had to choose their favourite farm animal and we put them onto a graph.
The songs " Old MacDonald" and the Dingle Dangle Scarecrow were big hits on the Kindy dance floor for indoor fitness.
In literacy, we read the story " The Little Red Hen". The kindies explored ways to remember parts of a story; the beginning, the middle and the end. We had to read the story a couple of times and we acted out the story with felt pieces.
We made scones just like the little red hen made bread in the story. Luckily the children all said they would help. It was great having good helpers not like the friends in the story who didn't want to help the little red hen.
The children made a story map of the main parts of The Little Red Hen. The children took them home so they could read the story to their Mum and Dad.
We designed a dinner plate from all the fresh produce you can get from a farm. Maybe there were a few treats like ice-cream added for dessert.
We played in the farmers market.
We even pretended to milk a cow just like they do on a dairy farm.
Next we looked at the farm story " Rosie's Walk" by Pat Hutchins. This time we viewed the story on you tube. The children learnt many words that help describe where somebody or something is. We call these positional language words.
Have a look at our maps we drew of the story, remembering all the things that Rosie did on her walk.
She went around over under past through and across.
To remember the story we made an obstacle course, acted out the story with props and played a word bingo game. The children enjoyed watching the sly fox try to catch Rosie in the story.
'Blippi' came to the rescue one raining day and taught us how clothes are made from wool from a sheep. That was very interesting. The children also got to see how a combined harvester works and how to make real yummy bread.
What a busy week we had learning about farms.
