On the Farm

This morning the kids used dry erase markers to write farm animals, find farm equipment in a picture and complete a fruit maze! During morning circle the kids practiced the days of the week and months of the year. We reviewed our "everyday words" and practiced Sounds Around Town. We reviewed the lip poppers, tip tappers, and throat scrappers. Our new sound brothers today were the lip coolers. To make the /f/ and /v/ the kids bit their bottom lip and pushed air over it to cool it off.

Our story today was "Farmer Dale's Red Pickup Truck" by Lisa Wheeler. Farmer Dale is hauling a load of hay into town when he meets some bossy barnyard animals looking for a lift. The kindly farmer lets them all squeeze in, but then his trusty truck breaks down. Everyone will have to pull together to get that old red truck moooooving again. After reading the story we started to make a chart about things we find on the farm. The three categories or animals, things that grow and places. We will add to the list as we learn more about the farm.

For art today the kids made a sheep. They followed 2 step directions to complete the activity. First they glued grass onto the paper because they like to spend time in the grass. Then they used soft cotton circles to make the sheep's body and head. Then they glued 4 legs and a mouth onto the sheep. The sheep are very soft!

Before lunch we worked on our writing centers. The kids wrote in their journals, practiced writing the letter "C" and used the iPad apps to practice writings words. The kids are starting to really get the hang of writing capital letters!

Today was a great start to learning about farm animals. When we come to school tomorrow it will be Octobers!