Presenter Liz Kitchen with interactive songs, rhymes, listening games and a story that is set on a farm.
Suggestions for use in the classroom
Listening for individual sounds
Encourage the children to listen to the sounds that play throughout the episode. Listen carefully, do you know what the sound is? What can you hear? What does it sound like? Can you add actions to the sound? Listen all around: farmyard sounds. Individual sounds: cow, pig, sheep.
Rhyme/song
I went to visit a farm one day
I saw a cow across the way
And what do you think I heard it say?
Moo moo moo!
Moo moo moo!
I saw a sheep across the way (Baa baa baa)
I saw a pig across the way (Oink oink oink)
Once children are familiar with the song, add actions (e.g. cow: use hands to suggest horns; sheep: hand movements around body to suggest wool; pig: move hand around nose for the snout).
Story - Farmer Guy and the wiggly pigs
Once upon a farmyard time鈥 To hold attention show pictures, puppets or toys to illustrate the pigs, cows and sheep. On secondlistening, just use fingers as pigs to wriggle whenever the pigs speak or Farmer Guy refers to their wriggling. Once the story is familiar, you could make simple animal masks for children to act it out.
Follow-up ideas
- Make farm pictures or a collage; outdoor farm role-play area with picture labels for animal pens.
- Visit a city/local farm.
- Discuss caring for animals.
See the Teachers' Notes (pdf) below for more suggestions.
Song video: 'I went to visit a farm one day'
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