Weekly Highlights: May 24-28

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

This week - spelling, farm animal games, and a special trip to a Wisconsin farm to learn about farm animals firsthand!

From Sarah Trout:

This week we are focusing on farm animals. 

We have had an energetic, silly, and animated week so far.  We have pretended to be several animals on the farm searching for letters, words, and pictures.  My students had to pick animals out of a mystery barn and verbally say the letter or dipthong that begins each one’s name.  It was a fan game and the kids loved it – and got better at letter-sound linking!

We had one of the students pretend to gallop around on a horse singing “Down on the Farm”, and every time the student called out the name of an animal “on the farm”, the rest of the class had to find it and spell its name.  They lauged and were silly – it was exciting for me to see them have so much fun with this theme.

Also, we made Farm Joke Books.  Our favorite joke was:

Q: “Where do sheep go to get their haircut?”
A: “At the Baa Baa shop!”

Here’s our own little farm on campus:

On Tuesday, we went on a field trip to a farm in Osceola, Wisconsin.  Ruth Cracraft took some great pictures of the farm:

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2 Responses to “Weekly Highlights: May 24-28”

1. Jan says:

   June 2, 2010 at 1:29 pm

   Nice photos of real farm land. What a nice trip. It’s great to see that enthusiasm & I love the song activity!
   Here’s an extra joke: “Where do cows go on Saturday night?”
   (to the MOOOOOO-vies)
2. admin says:

   August 24, 2010 at 10:22 am

   Our students love to sing, to sign, and to blend the two. Thanks for reading!