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

Videos

Tot School: Creepy Crawlies

For Tot School, we have been working on a shape a week, as well as doing other themed activities. The most recent theme was Creepy Crawlies (bugs)

Matching Insects and Bugs Vocabulary cards and our Toob insects. She insisted on doing it while holding a toy shot, despite that making it much harder.

Butterfly light table page with  magnetic bingo chips 

Bug Jar Counting. We used a  six sided die and some bug erasers.

More counting with these sticker sheets from Confessions of a Homeschooler

Bug playdough tray with cookie cutters, beads, buttons and backyard bug rollers.

"Fishing" for bugs with this puzzle. She loved to pull them out, but wasn't great at putting them back in yet.

Wooden insect puzzles from this set. Some she can do more easily than others.

Bug matching game. I have her two boards and the corresponding cards. She had a fun time matching them up. When she's older we can try to play bingo with them.

Butterfly puzzle. This one she likes a lot and can pretty much do independently.

Sensory bin with Toob insects.

Bee dot page. I use pom pom magnets and had her match the colors. (printable here)

Bee line tracing. She liked trying, but couldn't actually do this well, yet.

Which is different bee page. She's a little too young for this, so we mostly just talked about it.

Toddler Bug Books:

You're My Little Cuddle Bug (one of her all time faves)

Peek Inside Bug Homes

The Very Busy Spider

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

 

Tot School: Diamonds

 We have been working on a shape a week, as well as doing other themed activities. This week was Diamonds and Creepy Crawlies. 

These are the shape related activities. Juniper was about 22 months.

This was her little area on our play room wall. The poster is from The Learning Effect. The rest is her completed work for the week.

She's been really into painting lately, so she just painted the diamond.

Practicing tracing in her dry erase center. She still needs a lot of help, but she enjoys it. (Printable found here)

Play dough included some fondant cutters and  a stamp. 

Coloring some diamonds. She can read all the colors and knew what she needed to do, but had some fun coloring the some diamonds the wrong colors. She's 1, no big deal. (Printable found here).

She seems to like using stickers on her dot pages the best, so she did that.