Farm Animal
Kindergarten
Thematic Unit
By Jessica Bryant
Essential Question
What is a farm?
Unit Questions
• Why do we need farms?
• How do farm animals affect our lives?
Content Questions
• What are the animals normally found on a farm?
• What are the coordinating offspring to farm animals?
• What products or services do farm animals give us?
Day 1 – Introduction to Unit/ Cows
• Introduction of unit plan with PowerPoint
presentation
• Students will be introduced to farm animal
of the day by watching a short film created on
Windows Movie Maker by teacher. A 3
minute movie about cows.
• The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons. Students will watch Reading
Rainbow: The Milk Makers episode online.
• Journal Theme: students will color image of Cow/calf, and finish the
sentence, “My favorite thing about a cow is ______.”
• Class will play Farm Animal Structure Interactive PowerPoint game on smartboard,
constructed on Microsoft PowerPoint by teacher.
• Class will begin completing KWL chart, constructed on Microsoft Word, and projected on
smartboard. Chart will be completed on Friday.
Day 2 - Chickens
• Students will be introduced to farm animal of
the day by watching a short film created on
Windows Movie Maker by teacher. A 3 minute
movie about chickens.
•Journal Theme: Students will color image of
Chicken/ chick, and finish the sentence, “What I
know about chickens is_____.”
• Students will play Farm Phonics Activity online in computer lab.
• Students will construct Farm Animal Diagram using the Kidspiration Software in computer
lab. They will identify type of animal, offspring, and how they help us in our daily lives, using
images and naming words. Diagram will be graded with check list.
Day 2- chickens con’d
• Sing Farmer and the Dell song using online video.
Students will act out song, teacher picks the farmer, and
the students will pick the following character parts.
• Read The Little Red Hen by Alan Garner and Norman
Messenger, to the class using the Elmo. Students will
identify: parts of the book, title, the author, illustrator,
main character, plot, and outcome.
• As a class, students will complete the
Three Little Pigs Webquest using Smartboard
for projection. Worksheet will be printed off
and completed.
Day 3 – Horses/ Farmers
•
Students will be introduced to farm animal of the day and farmers by watching a
short film created on Windows Movie Maker by teacher. A 3 minute movie about
horses and a 3 minute movie on farmers/ farms.
•
Journal Theme: Students will color images of horse/colt, and finish the sentence,
“If I had a horse I would _____.”
• Paired with 3rd grade reading
buddies, students will complete Pig
Webquest in computer lab.
• Sing Old MacDonald Had a Farm
using online video.
Day 3 – Horses/ Farmers con’d
• Read Old MacDonald (Bunny Read’s Back) by Rosemary Wells,
on Elmo. Students will identify: parts of the book, title, the
author, illustrator, main character, plot, and outcome.
• Math: Students will group and count by ones, fives, and
tens using farm animal manipulatives.
Day 4 – Sheep/ Goats
•
Students will be introduced to farm animal of the day by
watching a short film created on Windows Movie Maker
by teacher. A 6 minute movie about sheep/ goats.
•
Journal Theme: Students will color image of a sheep/
lamb and goat/ kid, and finish the sentence, “Sheep and
goats are fun because _____.”
• In computer lab, students will construct classroom farm mural with
images they find on Clip Art Software. Each student will find image,
put into Microsoft Word, type the name of image, and print it out.
Students will then cut out images, and arrange them on farm mural.
• Math: Estimation: students will look at three identical cans with
different amounts of corn kernels in it, and try to guess correct amount
in the can. The same activity will be completed using three more cans
with different outside appearances. They will then tell if it is easier to
estimate a number if the container is the same or different? Why?
Day 5 – Review/Test/ Conclusion
• Journal Theme: Students will color image of barn and farmer (cover of book), and finish the
sentence, “The animals in my barn are a _____, _____, _____, _____, and _____.”
• Review of the week’s content
• Farm animal test
• Students will construct a book about farm animals using the journal themes (picture and
sentence) papers and farm animal picture diagram they made earlier in the week.
• Class will create graph of students
favorite farm animal, using
Smartboard and coordinating
Smartboard Software. Each
student will mark their answer on
smartboart, tell the class if they
have ever seen that animal in
person, if so where, and why it is
their favorite.
• Completion of KWL chart.
• Close out unit.
References
Online
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5K850
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7 mol6B9z00
• http://warrensburg.k12.mo.us/webquest/pigs/index.htm
• http://www-pub.naz.edu:9000/~tjgrzybe/webquest.html
• http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Farm/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIJNoM_eCec
Printed:
• The Little Red Hen by Alan Garner and Norman Messenger
• Old MacDonald (Bunny Read’s Back) by Rosemary Wells
• The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons
Farm Animal
KWL Chart
Name:________________________________
What I know
What I want to now
What I learned
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