If you have any toy farm animals, ask your children to tell you about them. What are their names? What do they look like or like to eat? What are their babies called? Do they give us anything (milk/eggs?) What noise do they make? If you do not have toy animals, then perhaps look at a book with farm animals in or look at pictures of farm animals online. Here is a video clip about farm animals.

https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/preschool/animals/farm/animalfarmmovie.swf 

Ask the children to draw some pictures of farm animals. Can they write a sentence or two about each animal picture? Can the paper be folded together to make a book?

If you have playdough – roll this out thinly to make long thin snakes. Use the playdough to make letters to spell out the names of the farm animals. If you don’t have playdough, you could cut up string or wool. Magnetic letters could also be used. The children will know the following special friend sounds which will help them spell out the words ‘sh’ ‘ee’ ‘ow’ ‘ch’ ‘oo’ ‘ck’ ‘er’ ‘nk’ ‘or’

Read through the tricky words. Lay them out on the floor. Challenge your child to tap a certain word with their toe!