Down on the Farm

Read Click, Clack, Moo and In a Barn in the Country

Have feed in a bin for children to play in and Little People barn yard set.

Let children milk a cow. I use a rubber glove with pin holes in the fingertips. I bring in powdered milk, mix it up and pour it into the glove, then tie it up. It is helpful to have a little stool for children to sit on and a it's fun to have a little metal bucket for them to "milk" into.

For positional words, make a giant barn on the floor with masking tape. Red tape would be fun, but we only had regular tape and that worked out just fine. I have enough animal cutouts glued onto Popsicle sticks for each child to have one. Then we sing "The farmer and the dell" but change the words to "The cow is in the barn" and proceed until every animal is in the barn, then switch to " Out of the barn". You could easily say beside or on top of the barn.