For our class on Wednesday, we learned about the Letter "F" by playing a game called "Feed the Frog". I told them that our Frog King was really hungry but that he only likes to eat things that start with the letter "F". So, I had a basket of pictures of things that start with the letter "F", along with other pictures of things that start with "A-E". They had to look at the picture and decide if it was a word starting with "F". If it was, they got to put it in the frog's bowl.
We learned about the number 5 and talked about how special it is because we each have 5 toes on each foot, 5 fingers on each hand, and we each even have 5 friends in their class. They then each took turns using the pointer finger to count each of their friends. We read some books about farms, including one at the end named "The Grumpy Morning" that we read at the end for our Character Count about a farmer who slept in and all the animals were hungry and needed tending to. We discussed the farmer's responsibilities and how we each have responsibilities (more like, this is what I tried to do because at that point they weren't interested in listening anymore and they just wanted to play :))
For our lesson/craft they made their own farms. We used graham crackers as the walls and frosting for the glue and the grass. We had animal crackers (frosted ones) to put inside the barns and they "glued" a barn and trees to the outside. While we were making them we sang "Old McDonald Had a Farm" but we substituted each of the kids names for each round (ex. Old McAna had a Farm...) and that person got to pick the animal for that round.
When they were finished with the craft, they helped each other clean up...(how cute is this?!)
We started out the week on Monday with a Field Trip to Mother Nature's Farm. We had a blast picking pumpkins, going through the corn maze, riding the hay ride, and looking at the animals.
