On The Farm Unit with KO!

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Students in my K0 Strand class explored farm life through picture books, nonfiction titles and the arts. As the unit was beginning, the students visited Look Out Farm with their classroom teachers and other Kindergarten classes where they picked apples and pet farm animals. The unit was introduced by reading Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown. There's also a fun musical rendition that you can view with your child. Big Red Barn was our "mentor text." Mentor texts are studied and imitated and that is exactly what we did when we created our on big red barn on the great green field!

Students began by coloring a big cardboard template of the barn.
They covered the barn with red tissue paper. The roof and silo were made in the same way. I covered both with Mod Podge but did not alter their work in any other way.

Farm animals were templates that were colored with markers, water colors and feathers or cotton balls as appropriate to the animal.