Practicum 4 Lead Week Planning Form

Name__Kathryn DeBroux

Lead Week Dates _April 20-24

Theme ___On the Farm_________ ________________________
Goals __To teach the different animals that live on a farm.__

___To teach what products come from a farm.__________

___Teach baby animal names________

___Teach what farms grow_________

Teach what farmers do
Environment:
Reading/Quiet Area: (list at least 10 books that you will include in this area, list 2 additions to
this area (flannel board and pieces, puppets, book basket with props, etc.) List any other
changes made to this areas.
Books: Informational:
Baby farm animals
Farm Crops
Tractors and farm vehicles
Farming
Farm Animals
At the Farm
Sheep
Pigs
Goats
Cows

Stories
The Little Red Hen
Barnyard Banter
The Farm

Additions:
(Book Basket for Little Red Hen with puppets)
(Farm Flannel Board)
Block Area: List additions/changes to block area. Think about written materials you might add
(books, clip board and paper, building magazines, etc).
Lincoln Logs

Play Barn Set

Large Plastic Farm Animals
Farm Equipment (Tractors)
Sensory Table: List changes/additions to sensory table.
Spoons
Scratch Feed
Small plastic farm animals
Feathers
Plastic Eggs
Small Manipulative: List additions/changes you will make to the small manipulative area
(puzzles, file folder games, legos, small building materials, etc.)
Farm Patterning w/stickers
Animal Measurement with Unifix Cubes
Subtraction Carrots Manipulative

Housekeeping Area: List additions/changes you will make in the housekeeping area. Think
through theme/real objects/home like materials.
Egg Cartons
Chickens/Boxes for Coops
Plastic Eggs
Barn Background
Science Area: List additions/ changes in science area
Although there is no science area in this classroom, The area I would make would include
posters of farm animals and a discovery center with different types of seeds and grains in jars
(labeled), Life Cycle of a Chicken, Jars with planted seeds to show root system, Egg shells, Real
Wool sample, Corn Cobs, Straw, Feathers, Pictures of animals and what products they give.

Music Area: List additions/changes in Music area

Although there is no music area in the classroom, I would add egg shakers with different types
of seeds in them such as corn, peas, sunflower seeds, rice etc. To make different sounds. CD's
with a CD player that includes songs such as, "Old MacDonald Has a Farm", Oats and Beans and

Barley Grow, Five Little Ducks, Homemade instruments such as spoons, jugs, washboard, pots,
etc.
Art Area: List addition/changes you will make in the art area. In this area you will be adding
free choice materials.
I will add farm related materials to the art center such as cotton, burlap, corn and seeds, straw
and felt. Farm animal coloring pages, farm animal stickers or foam pieces, popsicle sticks to
make fences and barns and examples of some crafts to make with those materials.
Outdoor Area: List additions and changes you will make in outdoor area
Since this is a school, I am unable to change the outdoor environment. However if I could, I
would prepare an area with bales of hay, an area with dirt and shovels to dig, toy farm
equipment such as tractors, etc., wagons to pull and put things in and make a cow milking
station with a wooden horse made into a cow, a bucket and some brushes.

Weekly Plan: Using the chart below make a weekly plan for your lead week.
You will change the group time etc, in the left column to go with the schedule of
activities of your placement site. Please delete example! You can use your
cooperating teachers weekly planning form if that is more convenient.
Example:

Large Group

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Group
Discussion
about what
we know
about animals
on the farm

Group
discussion
about
baby farm
animal
names
and Baby
Animal
Match up
Activity

Products
from the
farm movie
clip

Mathematics Introduce
New Math

Thursday

Friday
Discuss
what
farmers
grow.

Sort
seeds

Manipulatives

and
Graph

(Carrot Math)
(Farm Animal
Patterns)
Animal
Measuring

Language
Arts

Animal
Mothers &
Their
Babies
Booklet

Science

Sequencing
Activity

Make
Butter

StoryTime

The Big Red

Barn by Margret
Wise Brown

Art

Barn Scene

Is your
Mama A
Llama? By
Deborah
Guarino

The Cow
Who
Clucked

Plant
seeds
The Little
Red Hen

Little Red
Hen Craft