Busy Bees

On the Farm
Book: Moo Moo Peek a Boo by Jane Dyer
Book: When the Rooster Crowed by Patricia Lillie
Share: Bring an item that begins with letter U (we had Underwear, an Umbrella, a Unicorn, the movie UP!, and Utensils)

Dramatic Play: Farm Prop Box (straw hats, bandannas, plastic shovels and play vegetables, plastic farm animals, plastic fence pieces, buckets and stools)
Sensory Animal Sounds Guessing Game
The baby animals have a sound byte button on the bottom. I placed all of them in a bag, and the children took turns guessing what animal was making the sound in the bag.
Fine motor: Farm Animal Puzzles


Sensory: U is for Udder! I filled rubber gloves with milk/water for the kids to squish and squeeze and pretend to milk. (singing to Row Row Row your Boat: Milk Milk, Milk the cow, I'm sitting on a stool, squirting squirting squirting squirting, now my bucket's full)

Art: Cotton Ball Sheep

Art: I filled one of the "udders" with watered down white paint, poked a hole in the finger tips, and the kids "milked" their artwork! This turned out to be much more successful than I had anticipated. The kids loved it.


Science/Cooking: Homemade butter
1) Fill baby food jars 1/2 full with heavy whipping cream
2)Tighten the lids on and let the kids shake shake shake their sillies out.
3)They got creative and rolled the jars down the slide
4) After awhile it will look like this
5) give it a quick stir with a Popsicle stick. The butter will immediately separate from the liquid. Dump the liquid, add a little salt and serve on crackers (...ahem, or a baguettes)

Language: Sharing Day and add to our list of U-words

Practical Life: We need animals. Talk about where we get wool, eggs, ham, beef, and milk (and from milk, cheese, yogurt and butter)
Music and Movement: Farm Animal Songs
Mr. Conway's Farm (animal sounds)
Old MacDonald Finger Puppet Play
The Animals on the Farm (sung to farmer in the dell)
The Animals on the Farm The Animals on the Farm Hi ho the Derry Oh The Animals on the Farm. Other verses (The cows give us milk, the chickens give us eggs, the pigs roll in the mud, etc)