Cow and Farm Writing Crafts

Do you love using the farm as a theme for learning in Kindergarten? It is always a favorite with little learners and can be a rich source of a wide range of lessons and content across a range of subjects.

• learn about needs and wants
• learn about where things come from - e.g. milk
• research animals and how they are similar/different

I love using the sounds that each animal makes as a springboard into learning the sounds of the letters. Sing a little song with your students to the tune of Old MacDonald Had a Farm and instead of saying animal names, replace them with letters and beginning sounds.  

There are so many beautiful books, poems and animated texts about the farm.  Barnyard Hullabaloo by Giles Andreae has a little poem for each animal and is always a hoot with children I read to!

Read both fiction and non fiction and follow-up with a writing activity. We have a cow themed writing page to share with you today. You can use it for any writing activity of your preference, here is one idea for sentence writing:

• tell students you will write about a cow today
• brainstorm facts and knowledge about cows
• model how to research new facts if needed
• chart some keywords about cows
• model how to write a few sentences (depending on writing ability of your students)
• let students independently write from your model

In the printable file we have also included a blank version - perfect for drawing your own lines on or for having students draw a picture.

From our home library, here are a few more of our favorite cow or farm books:

Clancy the Courageous Cow by Lachie Hume

Mrs Wishy-Washy's Farm by Joy Cowley

How to Speak Moo by Deborah Fajerman

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

I am off now to play with the plastic farm animals and play-doh with my Little Miss 4 - we love building fences, fields, trees and barns with the play-doh and then adding the animals for lots of farm-animal-noise making fun!