Farm

We have 8 and 1/2 days until the last day of school!!  I'm not gonna lie I'm so EXCITED for summer!  It's not just me who is excited- my class thinks it's already summer break.  I have kids coming to school in sunglasses, tee shirts, and shorts like they just got back from a tropical vacation.  Look, I'm not knocking it, I feel the same way.  

Take a look...

This is a fantastic depiction of me through out the year.  

Anywho, 

Let's move on to the farm. 

We started out our farm adventure by recording our schema on the chart above.

Here are some of my favorite fiction & non fiction farm books.  

We read a non fiction book about who lives on a farm and recorded our learning on the anchor chart above. 

Next, we filled out this chart after we read a book about baby animals.  They learned about what baby belonged to what adult.

My kinders graphed their favorite farm animal.  I found the pictures for the graph here. 

We learned about the different parts of a cow and labeled them on the diagram above.  

Then, we learned about the process of how we get milk.  

We read many books about the life cycle of a chicken. The books pictured above are my favorites. 

After reading about the chickens life cycle we filled out this anchor chart. 

We read the book Chickens Aren't the Only Ones by Ruth Heller to learn about animals that are oviparous.  If you would like to check out how I taught my kinders about oviparous animals check out this post.  To demonstrate their understanding of oviparous animals each child completed the art/ writing above.

We went on a field trip to a farm. The kids had a blast!

Here's a picture of our farm board.  Each child made a farm animal.  

Check out our farm writings.

Happy Weekend!!

Miss Hood Had a Farm!

  Miss Hood had a farm Ee, I, Ee, I, Oh! And on that farm she had some...

We used different shapes to create our farm animals.  I enjoy doing art in this manner because it allows the students to be more creative with their art.  

We filled out this chart after we read a book about baby animals.  They learned about what baby belonged to what adult and the vocabulary words that went along with it.  

My class loved this book!  The animals in the book fold out which made this book extremely popular. 

I used this opportunity to teach my class about quotation marks.  After I taught the lesson I placed  it into the writing center for them to experiment with.  

Here are a couple of my farm themed centers.  Take a look...

This center required them to read the word and match it to the corresponding magnet. 

My class loves word searches.  I was thrilled when I found this farm word search on the blog Welcome to Room 36! 

I found this addition game at Kindergarten Hoppenings.  


Well friends I hope you enjoyed my farm unit.  Our next adventure is going to be to visit a real farm!  Boy are they excited!  Don't forget to leave me a comment as always I would love to hear from... anyone really!

Got Milk?

 

Where does milk come from? 

Inquiring minds want to know?

 

 Learning that milk comes from cows was an eye opening experience for many of my kinders.  You can imagine the answers I got when I asked them about where chocolate milk comes from.  One of my favorite comments was "Chocolate milk comes from cows that eat chocolate." How cute is that?  

We learned about the parts of the cow. 

This chart demonstrates the process of how we get milk.  

 They took home this little book to teach their parents about what they learned.

Down On The Farm

Hello Bloggers!  For the last couple of weeks I have been teaching a G.L.A.D unit on the farm.  Take a look at what we have been learning.

 We started our farm unit by filling out part of a KWL chart (KWL stands for know, want to know, learned).   At the end of the unit we will fill out the "learned" column.   

There are so many great books about farms!  Don't you agree? The books pictured above are some of my favorites.

This is my Cognitive Content Dictionary (CCD).  If you have never taught a G.L.A.D unit you probably are wondering what this is.  Well, it's actually quite simple, at the beginning of my lesson I  introduce a vocabulary word.  We discuss the meaning of the word and write it on the CCD.  The CCD can be used to teach vocabulary words that have to do with the a unit of study.  A new word is introduced each day and a movement is made up to help remember the definition. 

This short story comes from the Houghtin Mifflin Language Arts Curriculum.  We read this story and then completed the chart below.

Check back soon to see more of my farm unit.  

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