This unit, Farm Time Fun, is strategically linked to the Common Core Standards. it is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, worksheets, science, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. The lessons (games or activities) included are scripted. They are written in a format that can be easily taught by the teacher or readily handed off to a parent volunteer or a classroom aide with complete confidence that objectives of the lesson will be reached.
Contents Include:
Scripted Literacy Lessons With Independent Options:
The Muddy Farm: Naming Alphabet Letters (or Sight Words)
Potato Truck Bingo: Alphabet Letter Identification
Barnyard Flash: Reading CVC Words
Down on The Farm: Segmenting Words into Phonemes
Where’s The Chick? Matching Sight Words
Independent Activities
Writing Words: CVC Words
Digraphs on The Farm: Identifying Digraphs
Scripted Math Lessons With Independent Options:
The Auction: Making Sums of 10.
Farmyard Flip: Greater Than/Less Than/Equal To
Farm Patterns: Extending and Creating Patterns
This Little Piggy: Counting Items to Match a Given Number
Pigs In The Mud: Subtracting Objects
Independent Activities
Farmer Fran: Connecting Numbers 1-20
Number Barns: Reading and Writing Number Words
Guided Reading Books
The Farm -Level A
The Farm- Level C
Class Made Books
The Farm
Science
Making Ice Cream: Changing Liquid Into a Sweet Solid
Is It Alive? Classifying Living & Nonliving
Writing
What I Know About Farms
Farm Animals
Farm Word Wall
Art Projects
Make a Shape Farm
Art School: Drawing Farm Animals
Songs/Fingerplays
Grandpa’s Farm
The Wishy Washy Farm
Old MacDonald
The Rooster
