Melanie Voiles
EDUC 5133
Summer 2013
Farm Life Unit
Curricular Areas: Special Education-Speech, Fine Motor, Gross Motor, Social
Emotional, and Cognition
Grade Level: Preschool Program for Children with Disabilities (PPCD), ages 3 to 5
Time Span: Three weeks, fifteen sessions, 45 minutes per session
Goals
Students will:
1. Recognize and label the farm animals in their own words
2. Recognize different sounds and label with their own words Farm Animals
make
3. Construct understanding of how to match animals by their size, shape,
and color
4. Gain awareness of working with others and asking for help to identify
animals habitats and their sounds
5. Develop new skills in the areas of speech, gross motor, fine motor, social
emotional and cognition
Objectives
Students will:
1. Discover animals that live on a Farm and learn how to identify them in
pictures with 75%. (Speech and cognitive)
2. Listen and Classify different animal sounds with 75% accuracy. (Cognitive
and speech)
3. Organize and locate pictures in a book and/or with puzzles to match the farm
animal by their shape, color, and size with 85% accuracy. (Cognitive, fine
motor, speech)
4. Construct their individual life size stick horse as a group (with assistance), to
race other children at the end of the unit. (Gross motor, fine motor, cognitive,
speech and social emotional)
5. Role Play, dress up like, and identify the farm animals as well as their other
classmates with 70% accuracy. (Cognitive, gross motor, fine motor, social
emotional, and speech)
Teaching and Learning Activities
1. Identify farm animals by using flash cards, books, and Internet games.
2. Listen to a tape of farm animals and identify in a group setting.
3. Sing songs with motions to learn more about farm animals, and to help put a
word with an action.
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4. Decorate your own Farm animal by coloring, painting, gluing tissue paper,
pom pom balls, and other sensory materials.
5. Place a new picture of a farm animal in the classroom every 3 days to help
the students understand each animal.
6. Sensory table, with sand, dirt, etc. with plastic farm animals to allow the
students to have a hand on approach.
7. Allow a cowboy or farmer to come into the classroom to talk with children
about farm life.
8. Introduce one farm animal every 3 days to focus on the animal’s life, color,
sound, and environment to help students have a better understanding of
farm animals.
9. Have students make their own stick horse (life size, on a stick) and allow
them to have their own race in playground.
10. Allow students to dress up as the farm animal they choose. Have them tell
you what animal they are and the sound they make. Encourage them to go to
other classmates to ask what animal that child and the sound they make.
(With assistance if needed).
11. Incorporate snacks during the day that go with farm animal theme.
Materials and Resources Needed
1. Sensory water table
2. Sand/Dirt
3. Water
4. Plastic Animals
5. Animal shaped snacks
6. Art supplies such as crayons, glue, paper, pom poms, tissue paper, sticks,
string to make harness for stick horse
7. Pictures of farm animals with animals in English and other appropriate
languages
8. Costumes/Dress up clothes
9. Computer
10. IPAD
11. CD player/IPOD for songs
12. Flash Cards with animals in English and other appropriate languages
13. Fisher-Price Little People Animal Sounds Farm with animals
Books:
Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boyton
Open the Barn Door by Christopher Santoro
Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
Peek-a-Moo by Marie Torres Cimarusti
Poke-a-Dot: Old MacDonald’s Farm (30 Poke-able Poppin’ Dots) by Ikids
Peek-a-boo Farm (Touch-And-Feel Action Flap Book) by DK Publishing
Mrs. Wishy-Washy’s Farm by Joy Cowley
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Summer 2013
Touch and Feel: Farm by DK Publishing
Farming by Gail Gibbons
Driving My Tractor (A Barefoot Sing-along) by Jan Dobbins
A Barnyard Collection: Click, Clack, Moo, and More by Doreen Cronin
First 100 Farm Words by Sarah Cheese
Flashcards:
Itot cards application for IPAD (includes labeling the animal and its sounds in
multiple languages)
Animals of All Kinds (Bilingual Animals of All Kinds)
Computer Programs/Websites:
Animals on the Farm Game-Sheppard Software
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/preschool/animals/farm/animalfarmgame.ht
m
Farm Animal Funhttp://www.primarygames.com/science/farmanimals/games.htm
Dora Saves the Farm
http://www.nickjr.com/games/dora-saves-the-farm.jhtml
Farm Animal Lesson for Preschoolers/Know Different Farm Animals
http://www.turtlediary.com/preschool-games/science-games/farm-animals.html
CD:
Animals Rock-Farm Animals CD by Animals Rock
Evaluation/Assessment:
Observation
Class Participation
Identifying Farm Animals by name
Matching them by Size, Shape, and Color
Participating and Interacting with other Classmates
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Summer 2013
Lesson Plan
Title: Farm Animals
Curricular Area: Special Education- Speech, Cognition, Fine motor, Gross Motor,
and Social Emotional
Grade Level: Preschool Program for Children with Disabilities
Time Frame: Week One
Objective:
Students will:
 Discover animals that live on a Farm and learn how to identify them in
various pictures with 70% (speech and cognitive).
 Classify animals while listening to the different sounds they make with 70%
accuracy (cognitive and speech).
 Organize and locate pictures in a book and/or with puzzles to match the farm
animal by their shape, color, and size with 70% accuracy (cognitive, fine
motor, speech).
TEKS:
Science
(9) Organisms and Environments, A, B
(10) Organisms and Environments, A, B
Context/Modification:
 Prior Knowledge:
o Students, to some extent, will be able to interact with others, match
pictures, repeat sounds/words, and follow instructions (even with
hand over hand approach).
 Modifications for students who are Bilingual:
o Versions of flashcards in their primary language.
o Versions of computer programs in their primary language.
o Interpreter for parents when communication is needed.
 Modifications for students with Severe Special needs or Assistive Technology
o Allow areas for wheel chair or walker access.
o Have Speech Therapist use sign language to teach unit for children
with hearing impairment.
o Enlarge pictures for children with visual impairment.
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o Use Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) for children who
are non verbal.
o Assistance from Teacher’s Aide for children who need direction or
hand over hand to follow instruction.
Anticipatory Focusing:
 Ask students of their prior knowledge of farm animals.
 Students and teacher will read a book and sing songs with motions about
farm animals.
Setting Expectations:
 Explain to class we will be learning about farm animals, where they live, what
they eat, etc. The students will begin to explore books, color and decorate
animals (individually or with assistance) and Internet games on their own to
learn independently about farm animals.
 Students will work one on one with teacher to learn to label and identify
farm animals in flash cards, puzzles and books.
 Introducing different animal treats at snack time to have student request
animal by name.
Input:
 Circle time to sing songs about animals and encourage students to label the
animal and imitate their sounds.
 Websites/Games on Computer.
Modeling:
 Teacher will verbally label the animal and imitate sound, while encouraging
students to repeat.
 Teacher will demonstrate how to match animals with puzzles and books, as
well as taking hand over hand to encourage student to do the same.
 Teacher will sing songs with students and demonstrate motions to encourage
students to do the same.
Checking for Understanding:
 Teacher will monitor all activities by observing every student at work, in
group and individually.
 Teacher will ask student questions about animals such as “Which animal is
this?” “What sound does it make?” “Where does this go?”
 Teacher will ask student to use words to ask for snack.
Extension:
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 Students will be encouraged to color and decorate their own farm animal, by
what they have learned.
 Students may use books, computer, flash cards, puzzles, and songs to learn
more about the farm animals.
Closure:
 Students will work with teacher to identify flashcards individually
 Students will make their own stick horse or other animal of their choice with
a group, individually or with the assistance of the teacher.
 Students will ask for a snack using PECS or their own words to identify the
animal of their choice.
Provisions for students with assistive technology needs, who are bilingual, or
other severe special needs:
 Programs provided in multi languages.
 Sign Language interpreter if needed for hearing impaired students.
 Larger images for visually impaired students.
 Wheel chair/Walker access.
 Interpreter for communication with parents when needed.
Integration of Technology
 IPAD for flashcards with sounds and different languages.
 Computer programs to learn more about farm animals.
 CD/IPOD for farm animal sounds and songs.