It’s time to take another peek into preschool! Rosie’s Walk is a sweet little book about a hen named Rosie. Rosie takes a walk around the farm, but never noticed that a sly fox is following her along the way. I happened to find the big book version at a Garage Sale a few years ago. Many of my teachers do their farm themes early in the year, so I did Rosie’s Walk a few weeks back. The book has very few words in it. Making it perfect to ‘talk through’ with the kids during circle, rather than read. The prepositions are great as Rosie goes around the pond, over the haystack, through the fence and past the mill! One of my favorite things about this story is the emphasis on prepositions. The story elements can be downloaded at KizClub. I laminated them and stapled them to popsicle sticks. I held them up with clothespins. I used a beanie baby hen and fox to let the kids act it out as a group. We even take turn pretending to be Rosie and the fox and give directions in the classroom. I might ask them to go UNDER the table, or BEHIND the cubbies. Great for following directions goals! I use this oldie but goodie with some of my younger preschoolers. Great for eliciting animal noises, naming nouns, matching and simple turn taking. I also usually bring my Little People barn. All my animals are hiding there in the Silo! Great for working on play skills, prepositions, following directions, nouns, and verbs. The list goes on! I printed this picture of a barn (can’t find the source) and added stickers. This makes for a great activity to send home to reinforce the vocabulary. These are the picture icons I made on Boardmaker. We use them to explain or help when giving directions. This easy reader used to be out there in the world wide web. I’m pretty sure I got it from this website, which seems to no longer exist. If I end up finding a working link I will let you know! We put our Rosie on a popsicle stick, then take her over, under, through, around and across the farm! This Rosie’s Walk Positional Words game is a Lotto game played with our character Rosie. These AMAZING buzzers are all the rage in my speech room right now. I’m whipping up a review on them for later this month so stay tuned! I used with communication board with one of my friends. I got it through BoardMakerShare.com HERE. I used one of my favorite apps Peekaboo Barn with some of my low verbal friends working on imitating animal noises and signs for ‘open’. Here’s a another resource you might want to check out: Sparklebox has several pictures for sequencing. You can also find felt board icons here at MakeLearningFun. How do you incorporate themes into your preschool plans? Do you use books to make weekly plans like I do? What other ideas do you have for the farm theme?
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20somethingsaver says
I use UNO Moo often ( for animal matching and sorting as well as patterns). Also, a farm animal puzzle/activity set I got at a Borders closing and a felt barn with a cow and pig from the Target dollar spot a few years ago. Melissa and Doug repositionable farm scene is great too!
Rebecca says
I’m beefing up my farm unit to use with my preschoolers. This book sounds perfect as all of my preschoolers need help with prepositions. My kids love the fisher price barn with the coins (blanking on the name right now) and we work on “in” and “out” with it.
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Magento says
A very nice work with the post you made here. I like the barn drawing/artwork.
Carrie Manchester says
I service mostly preschool and most of my kids get serviced once in the classroom (I do a circle-type lesson with the whole class) and then one smaller group pull-out. I typically pick a book and extension activity for my classroom lesson, then something tied-in for small group. I try to follow the themes the teachers are using, but that’s not always feasible!
PS, Farm would tie in so well this time of year, but in my district, most of the PK teachers do it in the spring!
Cathy White says
Great themed activities! Thanks. I love the changes to you blog too!! 🙂
Kari says
http://coloringcorner.blogspot.com/2012/07/barn-coloring-pages.html
There is a link to the black & white barn printout you used just in case you wanted it… I knew I had used that same barn before in an activity so I googled barn coloring page and it popped up!
Love your ideas! Doing Rosie’s Walk in preschool next week!
Jenna Rayburn says
thanks Kari!
Jenny says
Where can I buy the buzzers from.?