Farm Animals

Farm Animals

Ages 3–6 · 6 minutes · English, Science

MOO! OINK! QUACK! Visit the farm.

In this lesson, students will:

- Adventure around the farm!
- Watch real footage of farm animals in their habitat
- Experience a variety of farm animals
- Pick your favorite farm animal!
- Interact and make connections to the story

Part of

Standards alignment

Common Core State Standards

  • ELD-SI.K-3.Inform — Multilingual learners will… • Define and classify objects or concepts • Describe characteristics, patterns, or behavior • Describe parts and wholes • Sort, clarify, and summarize ideas • Summarize information from interaction with others and from learning experiences
  • ELD-SI.K-3.Narrate — Multilingual learners will… • Share ideas about one's own and others' lived experiences and previous learning • Connect stories with images and representations to add meaning • Ask questions about what others have shared • Recount and restate ideas • Discuss how stories might end or next steps

Alabama

  • ELA21.K.3 — Actively participate in teacher-led choral and shared reading experiences.

Alaska

  • RL.K.10 — Actively engage in shared reading activities using literature from a variety of cultures with purpose and understanding, and scaffolding as needed.
  • SL.K.4 — Describe familiar people, places, things, and events, and with prompting and support, provide additional related details.
  • Make observations (firsthand or from media) to collect data that can be used to make comparisons.
  • W.K.1 — Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to state an opinion or a preference about a topic or part of a book (e.g., I like dogs better than cats because…; My favorite part of the story is when…; I think it was funny when…).

Arizona

  • K.L.5.c — Identify real‐life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
  • K.SL.4 — Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.

Arkansas

  • K.RC.4.RF — Build general and academic vocabulary and background knowledge of age and grade-appropriate topics through discussion, reading, and writing.
  • K.RC.7.RF — Demonstrate comprehension of age and grade-appropriate texts by speaking or writing.

California

  • RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
  • RI.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
  • SL.K.4 — Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.

Colorado

  • SC.P.2.1.a — Observe, describe and discuss living things.
  • SC.P.1.1.d — Observe, describe, and discuss living things and natural processes.
  • SC.P.3.1.b — Use senses and tools, including technology, to investigate materials, and observe processes and relationships to gather information and explore the environment.

Connecticut

  • RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
  • Make observations (firsthand or from media) to collect data that can be used to make comparisons.
  • SL.K.4 — Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.

Delaware

  • RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

Florida

  • SC.K.L.14.3 — Observe plants and animals, describe how they are alike and how they are different in the way they look and in the things they do.
  • SC.K.N.1.5 — Recognize that learning can come from careful observation.

Hawaii

  • K-ESS3-1 — Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live.
  • K.SL.4 — Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.

Idaho

  • K.RC.TE.3 — Ask and answer questions about key details in texts heard.
  • K.RS.DR.2 — Listen to a series of texts organized around a variety of conceptually related topics to build knowledge about the world.
  • K.ODC.OC.4 — Describe familiar people, places, things, and events with support.

Illinois

  • INFO-P1 — Read grade-appropriate texts and use media to obtain scientific information to determine patterns in the natural world.
  • RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

Indiana

  • K.CC.3 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. (E)
  • K.RC.1 — With support, ask and answer questions about main topics and key details in a text heard or read. (E)
  • K.LS.2 — Describe and compare the physical features of common living plants and animals.

Iowa

  • RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
  • RI.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
  • SL.K.4 — Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.

Kansas

  • Make observations (firsthand or from media) to collect data that can be used to make comparisons.
  • RL.K.13 — Listen to high quality prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for Kindergarten.

Kentucky

  • L.K.4.c — Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.

Louisiana

  • K-LS1-1 — Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

Maine

  • SL.2.K.a — Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details to seek help if something is not understood.
  • R.4.K.a — Ask and answer questions with prompting and support about who, what, when, where, and how.
  • SL.3.K.a — Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.

Massachusetts

  • RI.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • SL.K.2 — Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
  • RI.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

Michigan

  • K-LS1-1 — Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

Minnesota

  • 0.2.5.2 — Verbally or visually respond to a story, with support and guidance.
  • 0.3.1.2 — Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media (e.g., poems, rhymes, songs) by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
  • 0L.1.2.1.2 — Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats. (P: 3, CC: 1, CI: LS4)

Missouri

  • K.R.1.D.a — engaging with text as developmentally appropriate
  • K.SL.1.A.a — following classroom listening rules
  • Make observations (firsthand or from media) to collect data that can be used to make comparisons.

Montana

  • RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
  • RI.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • SL.K.4 — Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.

Nebraska

  • LA.K.RP.1 — With prompting and support, orally retell familiar stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
  • SC.K.7.2.C — Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live..

Nevada

  • RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
  • Make observations (firsthand or from media) to collect data that can be used to make comparisons.

New Hampshire

  • RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
  • SL.K.4 — Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.

New Jersey

  • Make observations (firsthand or from media) to collect data that can be used to make comparisons.
  • RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
  • W.K.8 — With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

New Mexico

  • RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
  • Make observations (firsthand or from media) to collect data that can be used to make comparisons.

New York

  • PKL4 — Explore and use new vocabulary in child-centered, authentic, play-based experiences.
  • PKSL4 — Describe familiar people, places, things, and events.
  • PKW1 — Use a combination of drawing, dictating, oral expression, and/or emergent writing to state an opinion about a familiar topic in child-centered, authentic, play-based learning.

North Carolina

  • RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
  • RI.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

Ohio

  • RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding. Activate prior knowledge and draw on previous experiences in order to make text-to-self or text-to-text connections and comparisons.
  • SL.K.1 — Participate in collaborative conversations about kindergarten topics and texts with diverse partners in small and larger groups.

Oklahoma

  • K.3.R.2 — Students will ask and answer basic questions (e.g., who, what, where, and when) about texts, photographs, or illustrations during shared reading or other text experiences with prompting.
  • K.7.R — Students will explore ideas and topics in multimodal content.
  • K.8.R — Students will listen and respond to read-alouds, participate in shared reading, and interact independently with texts.

Oregon

  • K.RL.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
  • K.SL.2 — Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
  • K.SL.1 — Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

Pennsylvania

  • CC.1.4.PK.W — With guidance and support, recall information from experiences or books.

Rhode Island

  • RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
  • SL.K.4 — Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.

South Carolina

  • ELA.K.C.9.1 — Ask and answer questions in conversation on a topic.
  • ELA.K.R.1.1 — Ask and answer questions (who, what, when, where, why, and how) about print and non-print sources to obtain and refine knowledge.

South Dakota

  • Make observations (firsthand or from media) to collect data that can be used to make comparisons.
  • K.SL.4 — Describe familiar people, places, things, and events. With prompting and support, provide additional detail.

Tennessee

  • K.SL.PKI.4 — Describe familiar people, places, things, and events, and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
  • K.ETS1.1 — Ask and answer questions about the scientific world and gather information using the senses.
  • K.RL.RRTC.10 — With prompting and support, read stories and poems of appropriate complexity for Kindergarten.

Texas

  • K.4B — use the senses as a tool of observation to identify properties and patterns of organisms, objects, and events in the environment.

Virginia

  • K.1.b.ii — Identify characteristics and properties of objects through observations.
  • K.1.f.ii — Communicate observations using pictures, drawings, and/or speech.

Washington

  • Make observations (firsthand or from media) to collect data that can be used to make comparisons.
  • RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

Washington, D.C.

  • RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
  • SL.K.4 — Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.

Wisconsin

  • ELA.K.SL.2 — With guidance and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
  • ELA.K.SL.4 — With guidance and support, describe familiar people, places, things, and events.

Wyoming

  • RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
  • Make observations (firsthand or from media) to collect data that can be used to make comparisons.