Students will listen to stories and ask and answer questions throughout the readings, practice taking turns talking, listening and sharing observations about farms, who lives on them, and what grows on them.  In class, we will count our farm animals and color in the graph together. Graphs are a great way to teach mathematical information with lines, shapes, or colors because they can be easier to understand than numbers and words alone. We'll practice visual discrimination when we play the shadow match game. Visual discrimination is the ability to perceive the difference between objects or symbols like noticing colors, shapes, sizes, and orientations.  Learners can use crayons or markers to color in the graph as we count. 

(Please print out the activities before class and have the individual farm animal pictures in the shadow match game cut apart before class starts!

** It's not mandatory that your learner participate in the activity. If they prefer to observe and work on the count and graph after class, that's OK too!

"The Cow Said Neigh", by Rory Feek
"The Enormous Potato" retold by Aubrey Davis
"Right This Very Minute,  A Table to Farm Book about Food and Farming"  by Lisl Detlefsen