Do your students know where our food comes from? This Farm Animal – Reading and Writing Pack will help you with establishing these connections. The activities focus on animals on the farm.
Word Wall
- I am a firm believer that all work should start with a word wall. This enables our students to have access to words that will help them formulate texts and ideas.
- Print in color or use the save ink version.
- Display the pages so that the students can see them and add to them over time. As you move through the Unit add to the list.
- Brainstorm words your students know and add to the correct section. This will allow you to check for sound confusions and word pronunciation.
Word Work
- Alphabet Key - With a partner add words in the correct box for Farm animals and food we get from the farm.
- Making Words – g, ao, c, t, d, g, p, h, n, m, sh, ee
Writing Tasks
- Record what you know about farm machinery, chickens, cows, ducks, goats, horses, pigs, roosters
- Farm Research Grid
- What I see – think and wonder about - chickens, cows, ducks, goats, horses, pigs, roosters
- Farm animal facts for chickens, cows, ducks, goats, horses, pigs, roosters
- Venn Diagrams – pig/sheep, cow/horse, chicken/hen
- The animal I like best- A job I would like to do – What I know about food from the farm
- Diary of a farmer and an animal
- A variety of papers are in included for writing
Reading Tasks
- Set One - Match the mother to the baby
- Set Two – Match the labels to show hatch animal gives us
- Two small readers
- If possible have some chicken eggs and an incubator in your classroom. The next best thing is a clip available from social media sites that show the chicken growing in the egg at different stages.
- Use library books to read and then help to order the life cycle and add facts about chicken and eggs!
Science Tasks
- Look at the page with the different stages of the chicken growing within the egg. Number them and add information.
There are clear links to USA and Australian Curriculum
