farm animal class #3 -- sheep

I taught the third in my preschool farm animal series this week. Our topic was sheep, in particular lambs, like my adorable little Alice shown to the left. We started out singing the Old MacDonald song, with sheep, ewes, rams, and lambs (all sounding pretty much the same -- baa baa here, baa baa there). Then we sang Mary had a little lamb, followed by Baa Baa Black Sheep.


The book I read was the lovely Little Baa, by Kim Lewis. In the book, Maa looks all over for Little Baa, who fell asleep, and is found and reunited by the shepherd and his sheepdog. We then went outdoors and played a game of "Sheep Tag". Most of the kids were sheep. Two of the kids were wolves. And one was the shepherd. The shepherd went across the field to the "barn" and called the little sheep to come home. As the sheep ran for the barn, the wolves tried to tag them. If they were tagged, they went to the "wolf den". Basically it was an excuse for the kids to run around screaming in the sunshine. It worked well!

Then we went back indoors to make our craft -- this cute little magnetic note-holder with a sheep on it. This one wins the prize-of-the-series for being the most simple craft -- all we had to do was glue on the sheep and stick on the self-adhesive magnet to a clothes pin. I did pass out markers so the kids could color their clothes pins first if they wanted to. (Zoo Boy chose not to, but I think everyone else did.)

And of course I gave them each a coloring sheet to work on at the end of class. As you can tell from the past three weeks worth of coloring sheets, coloring just isn't Zoo Boy's thing.

We have a week off from classes next week, then three weeks in a row to finish up the series. Still to come, horses, ducks, and cows!