Mud and Tubs and Cows: Oh my!

We continued our Farm Unit by reading all about Joy Cowley's, Mrs. Wishy Washy.

Mrs. Wishy Washy has her own farm with a cow, a pig, and a duck who LOVE mud!  But, Mrs. Wishy Washy loves to give her animals a good scrub in her old tin tub!

We decided to take a look at this mud/tub issue from both sides of the debate.  First, we made some lovely (chocolatey) mud of our own.  We let our little pink pigs, made from shapes we have been studying in math, get in on the action too!

Then we worked with aluminum foil to create a tub of our own that could hold enough water for a good scrub.

You can enjoy Mrs. Wishy Washy at home by listening here, here, or here.  Or, you can sing and dance with the Wishy Washy Washer Woman here.  

After enjoying the silly antics of all the animals on Mrs. Wishy Washy's farm, we began reading about Doreen Cronin's Farmer Brown and his cows that can type!

If you have not read any of Doreen Cronin's silly farm books, you should!  These are some of my favorite books to share in the classroom--they have enough humor to satisfy your little one and put a smile on your face too!

                

We also learned about some real cows this week!  You can check out some more information about cows here.  (user name:  colham   password:  ferry)

We learned all about how cows make milk and about many of the different products that come from milk, and just to make the learning seem a little more real we gave it a try.  

We milked our cow.

Then we shook, shook, shook our way to some fresh butter--that was delicious on our crackers for snack!

                                                 

It has been a MOO-velous couple of weeks in Kindergarten!