Language, Literacy & Communication Skills
‘ON THE FARM’
 Farm stories (learn, retell and re-write Pie
 Tally charts/pictograms and graphs of
Corbett style) –
 Retell stories (e.g. The 3 Little Pigs) using
puppets, role play
 Instructional texts – how to look after an
animal / how to wash your hands properly
Mathematical Development
favourite farm animals/favourite food –
Ideas to develop throughout the topic.
Dependent on children’s interest and
where they will take the topic.
 Sorting animals according to criteria (using
large wooden farm animals outside)
 Dozens – eggs
 Using money to buy food from role play shop
 Labelling animal / tractor parts
 Make animals using 2D shapes
 Role play – farm shop – write lists for shop
 Problem-solving exercises (Thinking Skills –
 Make a non-fiction fact file book about farm
farm related activities)
animals
 Farm animal puzzles
 Lists – jobs that a farmer has to do
 Farm number songs (5 little ducks, 10 fat
 Alliteration – soft, smelly sheep etc
sausages, 5 little speckled frogs)
 Farmer’s diary – sequencing activities
 Role play shop- buying and selling (money)
 Letter writing – prayer to God to thank him
for the food he gives us
 Daily guided reading/phonics/handwriting
Physical Development
 Moving like different farm animals
 Fine motor – milking cows using gloves with holes
 Animal lacing cards
 Acting out different farming jobs – shearing, cutting etc
Creative Development
Knowledge & Understanding of the World
 Observational drawings of chickens
(Science)
 Animal masks and puppets
 What is it like on a farm? Identify animals that live in local environment
 Make a scarecrow
 Life cycles – chickens and ducks
 Paint tractors
 Farm animals and their babies
 Make a tractor from collage materials
 Living things in our environment – labelling parts of animals
 Farm songs – 5 little ducks, 5 little speckled frogs, Farmer in
 Match food product to the animal
the Den, 10 fat sausages, Old Macdonald had a farm
 Farm shop-role play different roles, sell food off the farm
 Look at feathers and their uses e.g. for bedding. Do they float or sink?
Look at feathers with magnifying glasses
 Wool – process from shearing to spinning to end product
 What crops need to grow
(History)
 Victorian farms (farming traditions today compared to long ago)
 Different farm machines - compare to long ago
 Farm artefacts – shearing machines, milking tools, horses and tractors,
machinery – mowing grass by hand versus tractors
PSED
(Geography)
 How do farmers look after animals?
 Washing hands after touching animals / handling food (hygiene)
 Different types of farms
 Label main geographical features of a farm
 How are farms set out? Make maps
 What do farmers do in different seasons? Understand the effects the
seasons have on animals
 Identify natural and man-made features in local environment