We explored a farm animal with horns: goats. Did you know that sheep have horns too? Goats have straight horns and sheep have rounded horns. Let’s observe them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu0Xa0pYjD0
The mommy sheep is a ewe, the daddy a ram and the baby sheep is a lamb.
Science
What’s the weather today? According to weather folklore, March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. What does that mean? March startles the winter/spring line. April is definitely in Spring. Let’s take a sheet of paper and divide it into 2 columns: one for Winter weather signs and one for Spring weather signs. Help your child come up with weather signs for Winter and Spring and write them down.
If your child has a journal, write down what your child says and date the entry.
Language Arts
Rhyming is so much fun! Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw is full of rhymes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhiIywoy4Eg
After viewing the book, help your child to recall the story. Then, view the book again and help your child to repeat the rhymes!
Here is a rhyming worksheet called Spring Flint https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/language-arts-worksheet-rhyming-pictures/spring-fling-3
”Mary Had a Little Lamb” Nursery Rhyme
Mary had a little lamb,
whose fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went,
the lamb was sure to go.
It followed her to school one day
which was against the rules.
It made the children laugh and play,
to see a lamb at school.
“Baa, Baa Black Sheep” Nursery Rhyme
Baa, baa black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full!
One for the master,
And one for the dame,
One for the little boy
Who lives down the lane?
Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir,
Three bags full.
”Little Bo-Peep” Nursery Rhyme
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
And can’t tell where to find them;
Leave them alone, And they’ll come home,
Wagging their tails behind them.
Math
Help your child continue his/her April calendar pattern (Info-Reptiles Week 3)
For this math concentration game, print this page twice https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/lamb-cards/lamb-cards
and have your child cut and color pairs of lamb with the same color. Place all the cards face down and have your child turn 2 cards over. The winner turns 2 cards of the same color. Continue the game until there is no cards face down.
For this counting exercise, give your child a piece of green construction paper (is a meadow) and a bowl of white and yellow pom-poms. Have your child take a handful of them and dropping them on the paper. Have your child count the white ones (lambs) and the yellow ones (lions.)
Art
- For this art project, you need (1) construction paper in 2 colors, (2) scissors, (3) white paint, (4) eyes, (5) cork.
Have your child use this pattern to cut and trace the sheep’s head and feet on black construction paper.
https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/lamb-patternsbr-2-pages/lamb-head-and-legs
Use the cork in white paint to do the sheep’s body and then glue head, feet and eyes.
2. For this fluffy lamb project, you need (1) construction paper in white and green, (2) cotton balls, (3) black and white paint, (4) paintbrush, (5) glue, and (6) scissors.
Paint your child’s hand black and make a handprint on the paper. When the paint is dry, turn the paper upside down and Help your child glue cotton balls on and around the palm of the handprint. Paint a small white eye on the thumb (head).
Have your child cut t green construction paper strips (grass) and glue them below the handprint.
Small Motor Skills
Counting Farm Animal Worksheet http://www.tlsbooks.com/countingfarmanimals.html
Sheep Cut and Paste Coloring Page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu0Xa0pYjD0
Counting Sheep Coloring Page https://twistynoodle.com/counting-sheep-2-coloring-page/
Gross Motor Skills
Simon Says by Patti Shukla