Farm Animals Unit Study

APPLICABLE DISNEYLAND SPOTS: Big Thunder Ranch Petting Zoo - One of my daughter's favorite spots at Disneyland is the petting zoo.  Children can pet and interact with goats and sheep.  Each animal has a name tag with a Disney themed name.  I like to point them out to M and have her read them back to me.  Occasionally they will have a cow or horse at the petting zoo as well.

WEEK 1 - Sheep
WEEK 2 - Pigs
WEEK 3 - Cows
WEEK 4 - Ducks
WEEK 5 - Spiders

CHAPTER BOOK: Charlotte’s Web

OTHER BOOKS: 

- Lena’s Sleep Sheep

- The Sheep Shenanigans

- There’s A Pig In My Class

- Olympig!

- Peppa Pig

- Click Clack Moo

- Are You A Cow?

- Cock A Doodle Oops

- Duck To The Rescue

- Duck Duck Moose

- Itsy Bitsy Spider and Itsy Bitsy Beetle

- Little Miss Muffet Counts to Ten

- Doug Unplugs On the Farm

Muddy Pig

ART/CRAFTS:
- Toilet Roll Sheep 

- Paper Sheep 

- Lamb Puppet 

- Muddy Pig 

- Paper Plate Pig 

- Cow Ears 

- Cow jumping over moon 

- Duck Footprint 

- Duck Shapes 

- Egg Carton Spider 

- Spider Lacing Web 

- Dangling Spider Web 

Dangling Spider Web

DRAMATIC PLAY: 

- Play with toy barn and plastic animals

- Dress up like farm animals

- Perfect your animal sounds.

- How To Milk A Cow - Milking a glove.

DISCUSSION: Barnyard animals; What do they eat?; What sounds do they make?

COOKING LESSON: 

- Make milkshakes – Discuss where milk comes from

- Make scrambled eggs - Discuss eggs and where they come from.

FIELD TRIP: Visit a local farm.

TV ENTERTAINMENT: 

- Lambert The Sheepish Lion

- Boundin’ Pixar Short Film

- The Three Little Pigs

- Charlotte’s Web

- Babe

- Ferdinand the Bull

- Home On The Range
- Big Top Pee Wee

- ON NETFLIX: Owd Bob, Charlotte's Web (live action), Rock-A-Doodle