Pre-K+3+Farm+Animals

Difference in kosher animals and nonkosher animals. ||  || Play a matching game of animals and their homes. Make a chart describing our real horseshoe. ||  || Transform room into a miniature farm with barn, hay, animals, ducks and pond, fences, tractors, farmers. Bring riding car tractor into room. Pretend to bring farm produce to a Farmer's Market and have people living in housekeeping come to buy. Giant farm animal puzzle. ||  || Count money at Farmer's Market to buy produce. Sheep card sequence game. ||  || Books and pictures of Farm animals and what we get from them - milk from cows, wool from sheep, eggs from chickens. Crack eggs and make scramble eggs for snack. Shake whipping cream and make our own butter. Look at real horseshoe. ||  || Work together on our pretend farm and in our Market. ||  || Collage soft yellow stuff to make chicks. Paint with bubble wrap and glue furry stuff to make our sheep. Eggshell art. Design a giant barn picture. ||  ||
 * = Essential Questions ||= Why do we need farms and what are the animals on a farm used for? || Content/ Skills ||
 * = Judaic Studies ||= Names of animals in Hebrew. Par, Seh, Sus, Tarnigol.
 * = Language Arts ||= Make a chart of farm animals and their offspring and use pictures to make a matching game,
 * = Social Studies ||= Look on computer of real milking of a cow.
 * = Math ||= Small farm animal color match up game.
 * = Science ||= Watch cow milking on computer.
 * = Social Skills ||= Work together to make butter.
 * = Creativity/ Critical Thinking ||= Pretend to milk cows by squeezing paint through rubber gloves and make "udderly" adorable paintings.
 * = Resources ||= Books, computers ||  ||
 * Assessment || Group discussions ||  ||