Let’s head to the farm for a week full of preschool farm theme circle time activities.
Circle Time Activities With a Farm Theme
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Circle Time Week Schedule
Start each day with a call to the carpet song. Everyone needs to be seated and ready to start by the time the song stops playing.
Circle time needs to be short so keep things going. This week there are three parts.
- Sing-Along/Chant- farm theme song
- Read-Aloud- farm theme book appropriate for a whole group read-aloud
- Early Literacy Activity- activity tied to the theme, read-aloud, or sing-along/chant
Skill Focus: identifying beginning sounds, clapping word parts/syllables, writing your name, identifying and generating rhyming words
Day 1
Call to the Carpet Song: “Welcome to the Farm” by Bounce Patrol
Sing-Along/Chant: Down by the Farm
Down by the Farm is to the tune, “Down by the Bay.” It is a fun and silly song to work on listening for and generating rhymes.
On the first day sing a few times substituting rhyming pairs.
Read Aloud: Farmyard Beat by Lindsey Craig
Go Along Early Literacy Activity: As you read the book for the first time, pause before turning each page and allow the students to brainstorm an animal that rhymes with each animal sound. Then, turn the page and check their prediction.
Day 2
Call to the Carpet Song: “Welcome to the Farm” by Bounce Patrol
Sing-Along/Chant: Down by the Farm
Sing again a few times with a new rhyming pairs.
Read Aloud: Farmyard Beat by Lindsey Craig
Go Along Early Literacy Activity: Invite the students to repeat what each of the animals says after you read/chant it during the read-aloud. Encourage students to tap on their knees as drums to keep the beat.
Day 3
Call to the Carpet Song: “Welcome to the Farm” by Bounce Patrol
Sing-Along/Chant: Down by the Farm
Read Aloud: Farmyard Beat by Lindsey Craig
Go Along Early Literacy Activity: During the sing along emphasize the rhyming pairs with students. Have students generate some of their own rhyming pairs to put in the song.
Day 4
Call to the Carpet Song: “Welcome to the Farm” by Bounce Patrol
Sing-Along/Chant: Down by the Farm
Read Aloud:Before We Eat: From Farm to Table by Pat Brisson
This story showcases the many hands that help to get food from the field to our tables.
Go Along Early Literacy Activity: Tell the students that we are going to create a class thank you to send to someone who helps get our food to us. Your class could even vote on who to send it to.
On a large piece of chart paper write “thank you” with the students. Have a few students come up and write their names. As a class, talk about the beginning sound of each student’s name. You can also clap the word parts/syllables in each student’s name.
Tell students that everyone who doesn’t get a turn today will get a chance tomorrow.
Day 5
Call to the Carpet Song: “Welcome to the Farm” by Bounce Patrol
Sing-Along/Chant: Down by the Farm
Read Aloud: Before We Eat: From Farm to Table by Pat Brisson
Go Along Early Literacy Activity: Finish activity from day four.
Farm Themed Sing-Along for Circle Time and Plans
Let’s work on rhyming with this fun and playful song.
Down By The Farm
to the tune “Down By the Bay”
Down by the farm
Where all the yummy food grows
Back to my home
It all must go
If I forget
My mother will say
Did you ever get the ______(apple)
Sitting by the _________ (chapel)?
Down by the farm
More Rhyming Pairs
Corn/horn, Zucchini/genie, Carrot/parrot, Peas/bees, Bean/queen, Strawberry/ferry, Leek/creek, Tomato/crow, Jalapeno/dino
Grab this song and the plans above. It’s a free download waiting for you.
More Circle Time Resources
And, for more amazing circle time songs and chants, check out our 35 Circle Time Songs and Chants to Build Literacy Skills Vol. 1 and Vol. 2.
Click here to grab Circle Time Songs/Chants Vol. 1 and Circle Time Songs/Chants Vol. 2.
Load the tractor with these farm theme circle time activities and great ready to dig into some great fun and build some early literacy skills.
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