MRS. GATES’S CLASS NEWS
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
THEME: Spring on the Farm
Week(s) of: April 18-22
SOME OF OUR ACTIVITIES:
SOME GOOD BOOKS:
*Farm Animal Lacing Cards
*Finger paint w/ ‘mud’ on pigs
*Review letters using HWT: magnetic boards, play dough, mini
chalkboards (wet-dry-try), wooden ‘big lines,’ ‘little lines,’ & ‘curves’
*Letter & Letter Sound Identification (w/ lambs)
*Graphing farm animals (comparing more, less, equal)
*Matching adult & baby animal (& learning terms), and match farm
animal or crop to the product they provide
*Using letters to match or create the words for farm animals &
objects found on a farm
*Paint w/ toy tractors
*Games: Uno Moo, Honeybee/Beehive, Eric Carle Animals Animals
Bingo
*Using tongs to sort farm animals by where they live
*Farm Gears
IMPORTANT DATES: *May 5 – PM Class field trip to the Stratford
*May 5 – AM Class NO SCHOOL
LETTER OF THE WEEK:
*Review
POEM: To the Farm
SENSORY TABLE:
*Beans, farm animal figures, tractors; soil w/ shovels, rakes, pots;
balloons (sheep) w/ shaving cream, cotton balls & popsicle sticks shearing *Animals in Spring by Martha E. H. Rustad
*Egg to Chicken by Camilla de la Bedoyere
*See How They Grow: Pony, Lamb, Duck by Angela Royston
*I Heard Said the Bird by Polly Berrien Berends
*Down on the Farm by Merrily Kutner
*Cows and Their Calves by Margaret Hall
*Ducks and Their Ducklings by Margaret Hall
*Farmyard Friends: Chickens, Horses and Ponies, Sheep, Cows, Pigs by
Camilla de la Bedoyere
*Hatch by Katie Cox
*Farm by Elisha Cooper
*Farm Animals by Wade Cooper
*Farm by Penelope Arlon & Tony Gordon-Harris
*On the Farm by Roger Priddy
SONGS:
*Cluck, Cluck Red Hen
*B-I-N-G-O
*Old MacDonald Had a Farm
*Old MacDonald Had a Band
ASK YOUR CHILD:
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*Ask your child about the products we get from the animals on a
farm
*Discuss terms for adult animals and their young (i.e. Pig: Boar,
Sow, Piglet)
Gross Motor: Locomotor skills: Object Control (throwing
overhand/ underhand, catching, kicking, striking w/ a paddle)