Farm Tot School

Color: Red

Shape: Square

Number: 10

Letter: F

Day 1: Farm

Read:

Songs:

Old Mac Donald
Farmer in the Dell
Abeka Fun Songs # 7, 19, 41
Driving my Tractor http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Lj_odhwo81s#!
Baby Einstien MacDonald
Charlotte’s Web

Snacks:

Haystacks (10 oz.Chow Mein noodles mixed with melted 1 cup chocolate and 1 cups butterscotch chips)

Activities:

Wooden Farm
Farm Puzzles
Stickers
Beanie Baby Farm Animals
Farm Sensory Tub
Farm Animal Movement Cards
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Barn Number Match
Paper Plate Tractor
Sorting Farm Foods

Day 2: Sheep

Read:

Songs:

Mary Had a Little Lamb
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Abeka Fun Songs #6, 8, 53

Activities:

Paper Plate Sheep
Do-A-Dot Sheep
Heard the Sheep

Day 3: Cow

Read:

Animal Alphabet Friends Card 3

Songs:

Connie Cow YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v5J1lcPZRA&list=PLtcVDUfj-tZytwkA64XHNSi0PwA0TMrJM&index=3
How to milk a cow by hand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6u-hGnCYsI

Snacks:

Chocolate Milk

Activities:

Paper Plate Cow
Do-A-Dot Cow
Milk the Cow

Day 4: Horse

Read:

Animal Alphabet Friends Card 8
Learning Numbers with Button Bear pg. 27
Arts & Crafts with Button Bear pg. 47
Nursery Arts & Crafts pg. 163

Songs:

Homer Horse YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WanxijTnXs&list=PLtcVDUfj-tZytwkA64XHNSi0PwA0TMrJM&index=8

Snacks:

Apples and carrots

Activities:

Paper Plate Horse
Do-A-Dot Horse
Rocking Horse (Stick Horse)

Day 5: Pig

Read:

Summer Fun with Amber Lamb pg. 21-23

Songs:

This Little Piggy

Snacks:

Pigs in a Blanket (Wrap hot dots in crescent rolls 375 degrees for 10 min)

Activities:

Paper Plate Pig
Catch the Piggies
Numbers & Colors Pig E Bank

Day 6: Donkey

Read:

Songs:

Abeka Fun Songs #10
Dexter Donkey YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQe7NrYVnBc&list=PLtcVDUfj-tZytwkA64XHNSi0PwA0TMrJM&index=4
Disney Small One

Activities:

Paper Plate Donkey
Pin the Tail on the Donkey

Day 7: Goat

Read:

Animal Alphabet Friends Card 7
Learning Numbers with Button Bear pg. 23
Nursery Arts & Crafts pg. 141

Songs:

Gomer Goat YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cItWWyC9dc&list=PLtcVDUfj-tZytwkA64XHNSi0PwA0TMrJM&index=7

Activities:

Paper Plate Goat.
Do-a-Dot Goat
Goat Colors and Shapes

Day 8: Rooster

Read:

Animal Alphabet Friends Card 18
Arts & Crafts with Button Bear pg. 97
Learning Numbers with Button Bear pg. 87

Songs:

Rusty Rooster YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPYjdfe_SKs&list=PLtcVDUfj-tZytwkA64XHNSi0PwA0TMrJM&index=18

Activities:

Paper Plate Rooster
Feather Rooster

Day 9: Chicken

Read:

Learning Numbers with Button Bear pg. 31
Summer Fun with Amber Lamb pg. 15
Nursery Arts & Crafts pg. 15

Songs:

Five Little Chickens

Snacks:

Hard Boiled Eggs

Activities:

Paper Plate Chick
Do-A-Dot Chicken
Feed the Chickens
Counting Chicks
Catch the Fox

Day 10: Mouse

Read:

Songs:

Hickory Dickory Dock
Abeka Fun Songs #40

Snacks:

Cheese

Activities:

Paper Plate Mouse
Mouse in the Color House
Mouse Colors and Shapes

Day 11: Cat

Read:

Songs:

Abeka Fun Songs #13, 28

Activities:

Paper Plate Cat
Do-A-Dot Cat
Cat Colors and Shapes

Day 12: Dog

Read:

Language Development card 19
Learning Numbers with Button Bear pg. 5, 125
Child Art for 2’s pg. 25
Summer Fun with Amber Lamb pg. 81
Nursery Arts & Crafts pg. 161

Songs:

BINGO
Abeka Fun Songs #37

Snacks:

Puppy Chow

Activities:

Paper Plate Dog
Do-A-Dot Dog
Doggy Doggy Where’s My Bone?

I ordered a couple toddler age books from Abeka.com. Following are some of the specific books with links that are used in this Farm Tot School Unit:

Grant’s Farm

Baby (High Contrast) Farm Book List:

Farm by James Brown
Black & White Farm by Charles Reasoner
Hello, Farm by Cani Chen

Toddler (Live Animal) Farm Board Book List:

Busy Doggies by John Schindel & Beverly Sparks
Busy Barnyard by John Schindel & Steven Holt
Busy Horsies by John Schindel & Casi Lark
Pocket Piggies Opposites! By Richard Austin
Farm Animals by National Geographic
Sleepy Cat by David P. Hall

Toddler (Sing Song) Farm Board Book List:

Five Little Ducks by Little Scholastic
The Chicks in the Barn by Aly Fronis
Old Macdonald had a Farm by Pam Adams
Moo, Baa, La La La! By Sandra Boynton
Skip to My Lou by Nadine Bernard Westcott
Farmyard Rhymes by Clare Beaton
Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boynton

Toddler (Lift-a-Flap) Farm Board Book List:

Noisy Farm by Covent Garden Books
Moo by Matthew Van Fleet
Pop-Up Peekaboo! Farm by Dawn Sirett & Sarah Davis
Farm! By Lori Froeb

Toddler (Touch-and-Feel) Farm Board Book List:

Baby Touch and Feel Farm Animals by Dawn Sirett
Touch and Feel Farm by Scholastic
Baby Touch and Feel Tractor by Dawn Sirett & Charlie Gardner
Farm by Phillips
Baby Einstein Touch and Feel Farm Animals by Julie Aigner-Clark
Touch and Feel Farm by DK Publishing
Touch and Feel Tractor by John Deere
Touch & Feel Farm by Dwell Studio
Fuzzy Farm by Little People
Night Night Farm by Amy Parker
F is for Farm by Aimee Chapman
Good Night Farm by Patricia Hegarty
On the Farm by Little Bee Books

Toddler (Animal Sounds) Farm Board Book List:

Clifford’s Animal Sounds by Normal Bridwell
My Farm Friends by Wendell Minor
Farm Friends 101 Dalmatians by Disney
Find the Piglet by Stephen Cartwright
Funny Farm by Grosset & Dunlap
Baby Animal Farn by Karen Blair
On the Farm by Kate Riggs
Moo, Moo, Peekaboo! By Jane Dyer
Farm Babies by Emily Bolam
Farm Friends Little People by Fisher-Price
Farm Animals by Charles Reasoner

Preschool (Favorites) Farm Book List:

The Donkey’s Christmas Song by Nancy Tafuri
Going to Sleep on the Farm by Wendy Cheyette Lewison
Little Red Hen by Beverly Capps Burgess
Farm Lullaby by Karen Jameson

Preschool (Lift-a-Flap) Farm Book List:

The Berenstain Bears Visit the Farm by Mike Berenstain
Peek-a-Moo! By Marie Torres Cimarustk
PeekABoo Farm by Jane Dyer

Preschool (Colors) Farm Book List:

One Sheep, Blue Sheep by Thom Wiley
Moo Moo, Brown Cow by Jakki Wood
Moo, Moo. Brown Cow Have You Any Milk? By Phillis Gershator

Preschool (Numbers) Farm Book List:

Tiny Puppies by V.C. Graham
My First Counting Book by Lilian Moore
Ten Sleepy Sheep by Phyllis Root
Barn Cat by Carol P. Saul
Pocket Piggies Numbers! By Richard Austin
Big Fat Hen by Keith Baker

Preschool (Alphabet) Farm Book List:

Usborne Farmyard Tales Alphabet Book by Heather Amery & Stephen Cartwright
John Deere Farm ABC by John Deere
Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack by Doreen Cornin & Betsy Lewin
G is for Goat by Patricia Polacco

Preschool (Sing Song) Farm Book List:

Barnyard Boogie by Jim and Janet Post
Mickey and Friends Old MacDonald Has a Farm by Margaret Snyder
Pete the Cat Old MacDonald Had a Farm by James Dean
Old MacDonald Drives a Tractor by Don Carter
When Cows Come Home by David L. Harrison

Preschool (Story) Farm Book List:

The Farm Book by Jan Pfloog
Big Red Barn by Margret Wise Brown
Tractor Power! By Catherine Nichols
Duck on a Bike by David Shannon
The Puppy Book by Jan Pfloog
Baby Farm Animals by Garth Williams
Where Do You Sleep Little One? By Patricia Hopper
Good Morning, Farm by Lori Reiser
Let’s go to the Farm! By Carly Hart & Lauren Tobia
Piglet and Granny by Margaret Wild