Farms & Food

Learning Goal: Plants and animals provide the foods we eat.

• Reading= Young MacDonald by David Milgrim, Duck on a Bike by David Shannon, If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff and Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm by Jerdine Nolen. Letter of the day: F is for farm.
• Science= Talk about a variety of foods that come from plants and animals. Play a matching game in which children match the food to the plant or animal that produces it. Talk about how farmers plant seeds and care for plants and animals. Show them how to milk a cow using a latex glove filled with milk (or water). Punch small holes in the finger tips so the liquid will squirt out when the glove is squeezed.
• Art= On a large piece of green construction paper, glue several types of inexpensive dried seeds (popcorn, pinto beans, peas, apple seeds, pumpkin seeds, oats, etc.). Squeeze out a long stripe of glue along the length of the paper. Sprinkle one type of seed along the glue stripe. Make more stripes of glue, adding different types of seeds to each. The finished collage will look like rows of seeds planted in a garden.
• Music= Sing Old MacDonald Had a Farm. Move to music with Study Op. 25 No. 1 In A Flat Major by Chopin. Pretend to be a variety of farm animals (roll in the mud like pigs, walk like a chicken, gallop like a horse, etc.)
• Play= Play a game of horse shoes, have an egg hunt or take a field trip to your local farm.