Down on the Farm - Animal Stories

Frolic Farms
 by
N. Parker, 1910

The third week in September is National Farm Animals Awareness Week. With that in mind I corralled a few folktales for you to harvest,as well as crafts, curriculum and songs.

I have also included a link to one of my previous newsletters about Cow Appreciation Day and Yellow Pig Day. Who knew?

STORIES

Cow’s Head – Ukrainian
http://tinyurl.com/35hk8vx

The Dog and the Pig – India
http://tinyurl.com/3y9z8pk

The Goose Maid – England
http://tinyurl.com/353asdm

The Magic Horse – Iran
http://tinyurl.com/2utybbx

The Owl Never Sleeps at Night – African America
http://tinyurl.com/38rzzph

The Talking Goat – Africa
http://tinyurl.com/22ne4mh

The White Rooster – Tibet
http://tinyurl.com/23tpzrc

Visit my newsletter from 2011 with stories and more to celebrate National Cow Appreciation Day and Yellow Pig Day.
http://storybugnewsletter.blogspot.com/2011/07/july-august-2011-newsletter.html

CRAFTS

Crayons, Crafts and Coloring Oh My! This is one of my blog posts from 2010, which is compilation of all of the crafts sites I’ve highlighted from 2008-2010. Everything is categorized and of course, there are additional animal crafts there as well. There are dozens of categories for the wide variety of special days and themes throughout the year.
http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2010/11/crayons-crafts-and-coloring-oh-my.htm

Crayola.com – Coloring pages, crafts, lesson plans to help you celebrate the week.
http://tinyurl.com/8e6xjrf

CURRICULUM

Education World – Some wonderful resources here about farm animals to use in the classroom.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_sites/sites050.shtml

SONGS

Songs for Teaching – Animal songs for young children.
http://www.songsforteaching.com/animalsongsforyoungchildren.htm

Relive those childhood days with this cute video of farm animals and the song, _Old MacDonald Had a Farm_ from Laurie Berkner’s CD.

Karen Chace 2012 ©

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