Cow Shape Match – Learning With My Boys

The girls had fun learning about cows today. They enjoyed making butter and pretending to milk a cow. We got our recourses for today from the Letter C is for Cow, Car, Cat Preschool Pack Digital Download.

Cow Science

First we watched the Baby Animal- Calves The Good and the Beautiful video.
Then I read the letter C from the Abeka Animal Friends Flashcards to learn more about the cows. We watched Connie Cow Song to go with the card.
We learned more about cows by watching this Animals for Kids Cows video.
She also did her Cow page from her Abeka Letters & Sounds for 3’s book.
We used the Where does Milk Come From poster to visualize how honey is made as they tasted some honey on a spoon.
Last we put milk into a plastic glove and poked a tiny hole in the fingers. They could pretend to milk the cow’s udder into the bucket.

We poured whipping cream into a jar half full and then the girls got to shake it all morning. We shook it hard and fast as much as we could and then a ball of butter formed. Just dump out the buttermilk and save to make biscuits or pancakes with.

The girls each had a similar writing paper for the letter C. My 3 year old had a capital C and lowercase c with tracing arrows, along with a cow to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added a short poem and more tracing C’s and c’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the C is for Cow, Car, Cat Preschool Pack Digital Download.
She also Helped the Cows get to the Barn tracing page.

I printed this C is for Cow Craf t onto cardstock for the girls to paint. I cut out the Capital “C” for them to paint black spots on. After that dried they glued it to a piece of green construction paper. Then I cut out the head and tail for them to glue on.

We found this Go Danny Cowboy Dance for some active time today.

I printed out the Cow Color Match game, and cut them out. I laminated them and the cut them again. Then we turned them all upside down and took turns flipping to try to find matching colors. They enjoyed this game, and did great taking turns.

I printed out the Match the Shape Spots game on cardstock and then cut the pieces and laminated them. Then she reviewed her shapes as she matched up the spots on the cows.