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Preschool Farm Animals ThemeFarming is important for our life. Farm animals produce many things for our life. In preschool farm animals theme children will learn how farm animals helps us. Who and how to take care farm animals. What are the objective ? In farm preschool theme, children may learn :
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Learning Center ActivitiesART CENTER
Chicken Eggshell Collage. Collect eggshells, wash it using soap and let it dry. Paint the eggshell with yellow and red acrylic paint. Print the chicken pattern. (a new window will open)Ask children glue the eggshells on paper. Let it dry. Find another wonderful project for preschool art activities. BLOCK CENTER Make a Barnyard. Provide plastic farm animal and farm equipment toys to make a barnyard. Go to block center to find another activity. DRAMATIC CENTER Veterinarian. Put veterinarian prop box in dramatic area. Include item such as : stethoscope, thermometer, band aids and syringe, etc. Use stuffed animal as a patients. Farmer. Gather farmer clothes and prop. Include hats, overall, boots, scarves, gardening toys such as : rake, shovel, watering can, etc. Find another great activity for symbolic play. LANGUAGE ART CENTER Skill : Auditory Memory The Animals Go Marching. Arrange three or four farm animal on the board. Say those in a specific order, and then ask one child to rearrange them in that order. Skill : Auditory Discrimination Name Two Words. Name two words that related with farm animal. If they are same, children stand up. If they are different, children sit down. For example : teacher say, “horse, horse”, children stand up. Teacher say, ”pig, cow”, children sit down. The word that you can use : turkey, pig, chicken, horse, duck, cow, sheep, piglet, chick, hen, rooster, calf, lamb, cock, gobble, bleat, crow, cluck, quack, barn, stable, farm, farmer etc. Wonderful idea for preschool language activities for you to learn about and share with your children. MANIPULATIVE CENTER Skill : Pouring and Spooning Pouring and Spooning Grain. Provide different types of grain, such as : rice, corn, and wheat. Have children pour grain over plastic tube. Give them a spoon and ask them to fill up the plastic tube with the grain. A list of fine motor activities MATH CENTER Skill : Sorting and Sets Big and Small Farm Animals. Provide 2 sets of farm animals. One set is big and then the second set is small. Print farm animals. (a new window will open), paste it on cardboard, cut it out and laminate it. Make 2 sorting boxes made from shoe box. Let the children sort picture cards big and small objects. Preschool math activities can be used to teach children math. SCIENCE CENTER Tasting Diary Product. Provide many types of milk product : cow milk, goat milk, skimmed milk, cottage cheese, sour cream, cream, yoghurt, butter, cheese, and buttermilk. Encourage children to taste and smell. Let children compare the color and the texture. Tasting Eggs. Egg is one of the farm animal products. Prepare poached, scrambled, hard-boiled, fried, deviled, and raw egg. Ask children to observe the eggshell, part of the egg, the white and the egg yolk. Let children taste and compare. Feather Observation. Observe various types of feathers. Duck, chicken and/or turkey feather. Use magnifying glass. Discuss their purposes, such as keeping animal warm. Put the feather in the water to see if they float. Talk to the children why they float. Teacher hint : Why feather help duck float? Ducks feathers are covered in oil which their glands produce. This oil making them waterproof and prevents the feathers from getting soaked. Includes all of preschool science activities for the young scientist. COOK WITH KIDS Strawberry Milky Cups Ingredients : Method :
Look at another recipes in kids recipes for young chef. FIELD TRIP Visit a Farm. Let children talk to the farmer, discuss to the children how the farmer take care the animals. Encourage children observe animals and farm machinery. Visit Milk Station. discuss to the children about the cow and milk. What do cow eat. How do cow produce milk. Visit Grocery Store. Go to dairy section. Look at the types of dairy products at the grocery store. This is a good idea for preschool field trip. GROSS MOTOR SKILL Play Wolf and Chickens. Draw two lines approximately 15 meters apart. The children become the "chicken". The children line up and stand behind one of the lines. Choose one child become the "wolf". The wolf stands between two lines. The wolf pretend to be chicken and says, "cluck - cluck - cluck - cluck". When the wolf says, "wolf", all the chicken must run across to the other line. In this process, if the wolf catch the chicken, the chicken become wolf too and help the wolf catch the other. Continue the games until all the chicken are caught. The last one caught will become the first wolf for the next games. Contains exciting fun games for gross motor skill. SONG AND RHYME Old MacDonald Had a Farm Old MacDonald had a farm, ee i ee i oh! Old MacDonald had a farm, ee i ee i oh! Old MacDonald had a farm, ee i ee i oh! Old MacDonald had a farm, ee i ee i oh! The Farmer in The Dell The farmer in the dell, the farmer in the dell And the farmer takes a wife, the farmer takes a wife And the wife takes the child, the wife takes the child And the child takes the nurse, the child takes the nurse And the nurse takes the dog, the nurse takes the dog And the dog takes the cat, the dog takes the cat And the cat takes the mouse, the cat takes the mouse And the mouse takes the cheese, the mouse takes the cheese And the cheese stands alone, the cheese stands alone Contains song and rhymes related to your themes. Return from Preschool Farm Animals Theme to Return from Preschool Farm Animals Theme to |
