Tot School Farm Theme

Lately we have been doing a shape a week, as well as a fun theme for Tot School activities. Most recently, we did a farm theme. Here are some activities we did.

Matching  Farm Babies vocabulary cards. Juniper could mostly do these independently, but needed some encouragement to keep going.

Farm sensory bin. I used oats as a base, some farm Toob animals and some funny shaped pasta.

Farm Water Wow

Farm counters and number cards.

3 Part puzzles

Reusable farm stickers

Farm blocks were a big hit.

Some farm puzzles.

Books are a staple for every theme, so here are some of ours:

The Gobble Gobble Moo Tractor Book

Cock-a-Moo-Moo

I Know a Wee Piggy

A Mud Pie for Mother

Farm Peekaboo!

Noisy Farm

A Duckling for Daniel

Noisy Farm

The Very Busy Spider

Knock Knock Who's There!

Little Blue Truck

Everywhere a Moo, Moo

Farm Babies (printable book)

Meet the Digraphs book

Meet the Sight Words book

 

Farm Theme Resources

 

Printables:

• Farm Babies Printable Early Reader
• Farm Babies Vocabulary Cards
• Farm Animal Bottle Cap Cards

Blog Posts:

• Farm Theme Tot School Post (22 Months)
• Farm Theme Tot School Post (2012)

Tools and Manipulative Ideas:

My First Orchard Game

Lucky Ducks

Farm counters

Books:

Books are a staple for every theme, so here are some of ours:

The Gobble Gobble Moo Tractor Book

Cock-a-Moo-Moo

I Know a Wee Piggy

A Mud Pie for Mother

Farm Peekaboo!

Noisy Farm

A Duckling for Daniel

Noisy Farm

The Very Busy Spider

Knock Knock Who's There!

Little Blue Truck

Everywhere a Moo, Moo

Farm Babies (printable book)

Meet the Digraphs book

Meet the Sight Words book

Polar Regions Unit

We're getting to the end of our Around the World Homeschool Curriculum and Biome Units, so we're actually done with countries. This week we focused on the polar regions.

Since we didn't quite have enough resources and activities for Tundra to have its own post, I'm throwing those in here. We did these a different week, however.

Tundra Biome

20 Fun Facts About Tundra Habitats

What if There Were No Lemmings?

Angela's Glacier

Counting on Earth's Biomes

The Frozen Worlds

24 Hours in Antarctica

If Polar Bears Disappeared

You Wouldn't Want to be a Polar Explorer

Polar Animal Adaptations

Polar Bears and Penguins

Magic School Bus Arctic Adventure

Just Ask: What is an Iceberg?

Awesome Walruses & Cool Penguins

Desert Hare vs Arctic Hare

Living in the Arctic

Icebergs, Ice Caps and Glaciers

One Day On Our Blue Planet: In The Antarctic

Polar Bear, Why is your World Melting?

And Tango Makes Three

How Big is a Million?

Glacier Adventure

Except Antarctica

Sophie Scott Goes South

Little Walrus Warning

Polar Opposites

Cold Paws Warm Heart

The Whale Who Swam Through Time: A Two-Hundred-Year Journey in the Arctic

Where on Earth? Atlas: The World As You've Never Seen It Before

A Map for Penguins

Polar poetry from Around the World on 80 Legs

Read alouds for the week were Secret Explorers Missing Scientist and Race the Wild Arctic Freeze

Sticker page from Adventures Around the Globe Activity Book

Maze from Around the World Mazes

Antarctica page from page from Beginning Geography

Arctic Vocabulary cards with the Arctic Toob.

We try to do at least one solo logic game every week, so Penguins on Ice was a perfect fit.

We played Ice Cool. He tends to avoid adversarial games, so we didn't complete the game (the rest of the family likes the game, though).

Hey, That's My Fish! went over much better.

Polar Animals search and find puzzle. The borders of these make them easier to put together.

For art, he did a tape resist penguin from Arty Crafty Kids

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