Storytime: Farms
Storytime: Farms
Let’s go to the farm and visit the animals! We live in a rural area with a lot of farm animals, so it is possible to get up close and personal with chickens, sheep, pigs, goats, and cows. If you have an opportunity, visit a farm or a fair and talk about the products animals provide, how the animals can “help” each other on the farm, and how to properly care for an animal.
Join us Tuesdays, and Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. or Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room.
Ages 2-5
Sing, Talk, Read, Write, Play
Tip
Children hear a letter sound most easily at the beginning of a word. When several words have the same beginning, it is called alliteration. A fun way to help children recognize beginning sounds is with tongue twisters. Hearing and saying tongue twisters help develop your child’s phonological awareness. Hearing the smaller sounds in words helps with later reading. Let’s try a tongue twister now.
Activity
Recite a tongue twister with your child, going slowly first and then faster.
Books Presented
Simms Taback's Farm Animals by Simms Taback
Escape Goat by Ann Patchett
Real-size Farm Animals by Maire Greenwood
Go Sleep in Your Own Bed! by Candace Fleming
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
The Friendly Farmer Fished
The friendly farmer fished for
French fries in fragrant flower field.
He fished for French fries on a Friday,
but only found four flattened wheels
Harold, The Happy Horse
Harold was a happy horse
when hobbling through the hay, of course.
Until he hopped on hefty hen who hollered,
“Hey! You’re in my pen!”
Grandpa’s Farm
(CHORUS)
Oh we’re on our way we’re on our way,
on our way to Grandpa’s farm.
We’re on our way, we’re on our way,
on our way to Grandpa’s farm.
Down on Grandpa’s farm there is a big brown cow,
Down on Grandpa’s farm there is a big brown cow.
The cow she makes a sound like this: Moo! Moo!
The cow she makes a sound like this: Moo! Moo!
(CHORUS)
Down on Grandpa’s farm there is a little red hen…
Down on Grandpa’s farm there is a little white sheep…
Down on Grandpa’s farm there is a big black dog….
Down on Grandpa’s farm there is a big brown horse…
Open up the barn door
Open up the barn door, the spring goes “Boink.”
There’s a pig in the barn, saying, “Oink, oink, oink.”
Open up the barn door before the clock strikes two.
There’s a cow in the barn, saying, “Moo, moo, moo.”
Open up the barn door, it’s a sunny day.
There’s a horse in the barn, saying, “Neigh, neigh, neigh.”
Open up the barn door, singing, “Tra-la-la.”
There’s a goat in the barn, saying, “Blaa, blaa, blaa.”
Open up the barn door, while the sky is blue.
There’s a rooster in the barn, saying, “Cock-a-doodle-do!”
Credit: Storytime Katie
Crafts and Activities
Farm Animals
Farm Animal Craft
Additional Books
Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
Skip to My Moo: A Rollicking Barnyard Story by Iza Trapani
On the Farm, At the Market by G. Brian Karas
