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Farm animal momma and baby matching3/31/2024 ![]() I then placed clear contact paper over the printables, with the sticky side facing out. To prepare, I used to painter’s tape to hang black line pictures of a horse, sheep, and chicken on our wall. I planned a sticky wall activity to get the kids thinking about the fact that different farm animals have different types of coverings, such as hair, wool, and feathers. We used it to learn about the various food and non-food products that come from chickens, cows, sheep, ducks, and pigs. ![]() I found a great printable focused on farm animals and their by-products at Joyfully Weary. They laughed so hard when the water squirt me! We didn’t have the opportunity to milk an actual cow, but we did something almost as good – we made our own cow udder from a rubber glove! I poked small holes in the finger tips with a pin, filled it with water, and then let the kids “milk” it. We also matched animals from our Safari Ltd Down on the Farm Toob, Safari Ltd Farm Animals Toob, and Safari Ltd Farm Babies Toob to the pictures. (I’ve created a Farm Animal Families printable you can grab in my shop.)įirst we matched the picture-with-label cards to the picture-only cards. We learned the names for the father, mother, and baby animals in each animal family. I printed some farm animal memory cards from my Farm animal families Note: For more kid-friendly farm activities and printables, see my Life on the Farm Unit Study page. Toward that end, we did several activities to help us achieve these objectives for our learning about farm animals. The kids will know what kinds of products we get from farm animals.The kids will know the sounds made by common farm animals.The kids will know the mother, father, and baby names for common farm animal families (e.g, hen, rooster, and chick are all part of the chicken family). ![]() The kids will be able to recognize and identify common farm animals.For our farm unit, here are just a few of the objectives I hoped to achieve while learning about farm animals: When I start a new unit with the kids, I usually plan out a few learning objectives to keep me on track with our activities. I recently completed a Life on the Farm unit with my two kids, 4-year-old QBoy and 3-year-old XGirl. See my disclosures for more information.įarm animals are a great topic of study for preschoolers. Check it out on Amazon here! Teachers and parents alike are raving about how much they like the over 170 simple educational activities included in this book.This post may contain affiliate ads at no cost to you. Need more simple learning activities for preschool?Ĭheck out Everyday Preschool. Here are the free printable farm cards one more time –> download here. If you are visiting with a child who is doing this and want to narrate try phrases such as ” When you were a baby were you very little?” If there is no response maybe try something like” That chick is much smaller than the chicken.” I tend to open with things like this and then just follow where the conversation leads after that.įor older children, you can put more cards out to match up. Pop the cards in one container and the animal figurines in the other and place a few cards on the tray as an invitation. I’ll be laminating mine at school tomorrow. If you have a straight cutter use it, if you plan to use this farm matching activity in a classroom I’d laminate the cards. You will need to print out the Farm Babies Matching Cards ( click here for the pdf), scissors, some farm babies figurines like these from Safari, a few containers and a tray. ![]() From basic phonemic awareness that a word like cow starts with c which makes a /k/ sound to supporting spelling for children who are on the cusp of independent writing. The names of the animals are on the cards for a few reasons, it teaches children to associate print with spoken words when teachers point and use the words, but it also supports children at different levels of development. The goal of an activity like this farm matching activity is not just to match up the animals, it is to look at how an animal grows and changes, using the figurines allow the children to manipulate and examine the animal more closely than simply using two photos, and children can compare which animals change a lot and those that look similar from the time they are babies.
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