Farm Animals - A Reading and Writing Pack

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.

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Down on the Farm  is now 121 pages long

There are clear links to USA and Australian Curriculum

Down on the farm

My students have been working on farm animals and getting to know what farm animals do for us.

 

Here are some pictures of my grade using some of the tasks in my 'Down on the Farm' pack.

 

This work allows for differentiation and different groups can have a different focus.

 

Here are two children matching baby animals to their mums - as well as matching names of animals.

 

This Venn Diagram is comparing a pig to a sheep. The fun part was listening to them decide where to put pieces of information.

 

This task asks the student to place information/facts around the animal.

 

 

 

I have placed a series of cards in the pack - where depending on the animal the task is slightly different. So this pig one has - words hat start with 'p', words that rhyme with pig and words that end in 'g'. They loved writing on them in markers.

 

This task is about four animals and adding the labels that belong. So cow has leather, beef, milk, yoghurt. Again I loved the conversation when they were deciding where to put some labels. I also loved hearing them work out where they went - some were surprised about leather and didn't like the fact my boots may have come from a cow - funny!!!!

 

So if you are doing farm animals - your kids will love this.