Farm Center

In the farm center children will explore and learn more about farms the buildings associated with farms and their uses.

Materials & Resources

Literacy Support

Dramatic Play Props:

Toy barns, plastic farm animals, fences, tractors, other various farming equipment related toys

Oral language, farming vocabulary, storytelling, emotional expression

Comprehension skills-problem solving and critical thinking

Story concepts- understanding plot, character, and setting

Literacy Props:

Clip board, paper, pencils, pens, markers

Oral language- farming vocabulary

Comprehension skills- role-play understanding plot, character, and setting, problem solving, and critical thinking

Functional use of print- listing the animals on the farm, recording inventory

Emergent writing- making signs for buildings

Environmental Print:

Farm Animals Poster

Farm Equipment Poster

John Deer Posters

Got Milk? Poster

(*Labels and posters with print in Spanish or other languages will be included as much as possible)

Emergent reading- decoding animal names

Concepts of print

Alphabet awareness

Phonemic awareness

Functional use of print

Book Examples:

Architectural photograph books

The Old Barn Book: A Field Guide to North American Barns and Other Farm Structures by Allen G. Noble, Richard K. Cleek, M. Margaret Geib,

*Rural Architecture of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado: Featuring : Fences, Barns and Corrals
by Myrtle Stedman.

*Big Red Barn (Spanish edition): El gran granero rojo by Margaret Wise Brown Going to Sleep on the Farm by Wendy Cheyette Lewison

Wake Up, Big Barn by Suzanne Chitwood Inside a Barn in the Country: A Rebus Read-Along Story by Alyssa Satin Capucilli

*Pig Surprise by Ute, Krause.

Oral language

Emergent literacy

Concepts of print

Concepts of books

Alphabet knowledge

Phonemic awareness

Comprehension skills- understanding plot, character, and setting, problem solving, and critical thinking

*Inclusion