![]() ![]() Learning number sense is something to oink about! Your kids will have so much fun feeding the pig they won’t have a clue that they’re really developing numeral identification and counting skills!Ģ4 pages of “egg-cellent” learning that’s perfect for teaching and learning about chickens. ![]() Sit “baa-ck” and relax while your kids exercise their fine motor skills with these fun, farm-themed play dough task cards! Your little Farmers will love buying and selling fresh fruits and vegetables in this amazing pretend play scenario! Make learning fun and engaging with this FARM THEME BUNDLE!ĮXCLUSIVE Farm Theme Lesson Plans + EDITABLE TEMPLATE!Ĭompletely done-for-you lesson plans that help you save time and empower you with confidence to create effective lesson plans!ġ30 pages of fun, hands-on farm-themed literacy activities, to help your students develop awareness of beginning sounds, syllables, rhyming, and more!ĩ5 pages of entertaining and educational farm math activities to make learning math fun! Improve skills such as counting, numeral recognition, graphing, patterning, and number sense!ġ23 pages of done-for-you printable props to help you easily transform your dramatic play center into a super fun Farmer’s Market. For more adventurous children, have them figure out for themselves how to remedy any issues, e.g., too many “chickens” in a bag or not enough “chickens” in a bag.Get a “moo-ve” on with planning for your farm theme with these engaging, hands-on, and FUN activities to help your little farmers learn important math, literacy, and science skills.For children that need additional assistance, bring more adults in to help the activity run smoothly or have children work in teams.Thank the children for helping find the chickens and congratulate them on solving the problem by playing the “Problem Solved” song.Ĭonsiderations/Modifications/Extension Activities.Is 12 more or less than 10? What do we need to do to make sure he has only 10 chickens?” For example: “Sam was supposed to collect 10 chickens. If a child collected more or less than his assigned number, the adult should take the opportunity to discuss addition and subtraction, using the concept of more and less. Gather the children back together as a group and count out the chickens in each bag (with any attending adults helping).As they search, remind the children that the goal is to find only the number of chickens written on their bag, no more and no fewer. Get hunting! The children should look around the room for their assigned number of chickens.To make sure the children know how many they should find, go around the room and have the children identify the numbers on each of their bags. Give each child a paper bag and explain that the number on the bottom of each child’s bag indicates how many chickens that child needs to find.Explain to the children that, like Peg and Cat, you are “Farmer ” and that you have a big problem! You have lost your chickens and need help to find the chickens and bring them home.View the “Picking Up Chickens” video clip.Ask the children what animal makes the “peep” sound and acknowledge them when they correctly answer “chicken.” Tell them that they are now going to watch a clip from Peg + Cat in which Peg and Cat have to deal with a problem with chickens.THE WRITING SHOULD BE ON THE BOTTOM OF THE BAG AND NOT VISIBLE UNTIL ALL THE BAGS ARE DISTRIBUTED. If there are fewer, give each child more than one bag. If there are more than 10 children, use more than 10 bags and repeat numbers, or have the children work in teams. ![]() On the bottom of one bag, write the numeral “1” on the bottom of the next bag, write the numeral “2” and so on.There can be more than one “chicken” in one spot, but they should be scattered throughout the space. Cotton balls will represent chickens in the activity. Before the activity, hide 55 cotton balls for each group of ten children all over the space where the activity will be taking place. ![]()
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