We used funnels to play in colored rice!

Planting Bean Seeds

Cute book! Also available in paperback!

Repetitive, so the kids can "help" you read!

Chick Feed Treat

You will need:

Chex Cereal

Puffed Rice Cereal

Sunflower Seeds (without shell)

Raisins

Cupcake Liner

Mix the above ingredients and put in a cupcake liner and have a fun treat! 

This is one of my absolute favorite books when we talk about the farm, oh, and the kids love it too!

Bye, Bye, Butterflies!

We released our butterflies today! I sent home wings that I cut-out of posterboard and the kids and parents decorated them. They brought them back and they wore them today when we let the butterflies go!
 

Down on the Farm

This is our Reading Nest! I spray painted a little wading pool and filled it with raffia and little chick pillows. I allow two kids at a time in the nest so there is plenty of room!

Clicking on this will make it look a lot better! I'll get this figured out yet!

Books About the Farm and Farm Animals

Welcome, Little Chick by Janet Craig

Oink! Moo! How Do You Do? by Grace Maccarone

The Little Green Man Visits the Farm by Kimberlee Graves

Old MacDonald Had a Farm by Holly Berry

Here a Chick, There a Chick by Bruce McMillan

Mary Had a Little Lamb by Iza Trapani

The Three Little Pigs by James Marshall

Daisy and the Monster by Jane Simmons

The Flea's Sneeze by Lynn Downey

Wake Up, Wake Up by Brian and Rebecca Wildsmith

No Moon, No Milk by Chris Babcock

Animal Stories by Dick King-Smith

Baby Animals by Seymour Simon

The Thing That Bothered Farmer Brown by Teri Sloat

Where Is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox

What If? by A.H. Benjamin

The Hungry Farmer by Michelle Wagner Nechaev

Pigsty by Mark Teague

When You Take a Pig to a Party by Kristina McLarey & Myra McLarey

Storm is Coming! by Heather Tekavec

Going to Sleep on the Farm by Wendy Cheyette Lewison

Barney Goes to the Farm by Mark S. Bernthal

The Chick Book by Diane Muldrow

The Grumpy Morning by Darcia Labrosse

Over on the Farm by Christopher Gunson

Cock-a-doodle-doo! Barnyard Hullabaloo by Giles Andreae & David Wojtowycz

The Farm Book by Jan Pfloog

The Little Yellow Chicken by Joy Cowley

Dora's Eggs by Julie Sykes

Duck in the Truck by Jez Alborough

Little Quack's Bedtime by Lauren Thompson

Daisy and the Egg by Jane Simmons

Have You Got My Purr? by Judy West

My Sheep by Heather Miller

My Cows

My Goats

My Pigs

My Horses

My Chickens

They Are Finally Here!

Our butterflies are called Painted Ladies!

We are still waiting.....

We are still waiting for our butterflies! Usually before they come out, their chrysalis turns black and it is almost see through. You can see the color of their wings. The two on the right are almost ready, but the ones on the left are still brown. I'm predicting tomorrow will be the day for a couple of them! Hopefully I can get a picture of it!

This picture is very blurry, but you can see the color of their wings through their chrysalis!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

by Eric Carle

The caterpillar is a green sock and I glued wiggley eyes on it. The butterfly is a finger puppet. Before you start reading the book, put the butterfly on your finger and then slip it into the caterpillar sock puppet.

These are the foods that he ate through in the book. One apple, 2 pears, 3 plums, etc... I laminated all of them so they would last a long time. As you read it in the book have the caterpillar "eat" through each piece of food. I usually assign a piece of food to each child so they can feed the caterpillar.

This is the caterpillar eating the food!

I use the paper bag as his cocoon. While the caterpillar is in his cocoon I usually slip the sock off and.......

He's a beautiful butterfly!

The kids love this book. They think it's magic that the caterpillar turns into the butterfly inside his cocoon and they love to feed the caterpillar!

Our BIG butterfly book!

The kids love this book! I used it to teach them about the butterfly life cycle. It has great real life pictures!

Using our proboscis!

A butterfly's tongue is called a proboscis. Their tongue rolls in and out, just like a party blowout. Their tongue is like a straw and they suck up the nectar! So after we "planted" our flowers, they used their proboscis, just like a butterfly to get their nectar!

We "planted" flowers!

I filled our sensory table with potting soil. The kids wore gardening gloves and used garden tools to "plant" flowers. They were taking it very seriously. They would make a hole a put a flower in the hole and cover it up. So cute! I found the fake flowers at the dollar store. I searched high and low for boys gardening gloves. Either boys don't garden or they garden so much that there weren't any left! So poor Luke had to wear pink!

Finger Puppet Butterflies

I used a butterfly die to cut out white butterflies and then I cut a small slit in the middle. The kids colored them and made them fly around while we sang, "Flitter, Flutter Butterfly".

If you click on this it will come out clearer. I have been working to get it to look better for over an hour.

Flitter, Flutter, Butterfly

Flitter, flutter butterfly, (flap your wings)

Flying in the big blue sky. (hold arms up)

Flutter high, (flap your wings high)

Flutter low, (flap your wings low)

Flutter fast, (flap fast)

Flutter slow. (flap slow)

Flitter, flutter butterfly,

Flying in the big blue sky.

Drinking "Nectar"

I cut out a flower and then placed the cup in the center and traced around it. When I cut the center out, I cut it just inside the line. It's hard to tell in the picture, you can see it better if you click to enlarge the picture. Then I slid the flower over the cup and taped it on.

The kids have been learning about the butterflies proboscis (tongue). Their tongue is like a straw and they use it to drink nectar from the flower, so that is what we did. I put nectar (apple juice) in the cup and they used their proboscis to drink it!