Baby Lamb's First Drink: A Springtime Unit Study
It is spring. The pastures are green and lambing season is upon us. The baby lamb has just been born and the mother ewe is carefully looking after her baby.
With beautiful illustrations and simple words, Beverley Randall tells the tale of a baby lamb's first day.
Baby Lamb's First Drink becomes the focus for a springtime unit study about sheep with lamb related activities to help children learn to read, write, and count. We work with wool and learn songs and games related to sheep.
Come frolic with the lambs and learn about sheep...
Activities to accompany Baby Lambs First Drink
- Baby Lambs First Drink in Sign Language
- Cards for teaching Baby Lambs First Drink in Sign Language.
- Teacher's Guide to Baby Lamb's First Drink
- PM Teacher's Guides provide a structured Guided Reading lesson plan for each PM title within that level Gives practical advice on how to use the NLS 'searchlights' model in teaching decoding skills Contains shared and guided writing activities within each lesson Highlights high frequency words in each title.
Why are baby animals born in spring?
How does Mother Sheep know that Baby Lamb is hungry?
Baby Lamb's First Drink
by Beverley Randell
Pml Re Baby Lambs First Drink (PMS)
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Ewes and Lambs to Snuggle and read to:
Plush lamb and ewe
Ram a Ewe and a Lamb
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Set out a green rug to represent the sheep pasture and fill it with plush ewes, lambs, and sheep related books. This sheep pasture reading spot will encourage your children to snuggle up and read.
Though most classes spend hours and hours teaching word detection skills, what they need most is time to read.
Some children like to read to themselves. Others like to read to a friend or a stuffed animal. Plush lambs and ewes can become snuggly reading partners for beginning readers.
Plush Mamma Sheep 16"
The mother ewe cares for her baby lamb.
Amazon Price: $31.99 (as of 12/16/2009)
Plush Lovely Lamb 12"
Baby lamb keeps close to her mother. She drinks her mother's warm milk and stays safe.
Amazon Price: $10.99 (as of 12/16/2009)
Room Essentials™ Allure Rug - Bright Green (30x48")
A green rug can represent the sheep's pasture and provide a soft place to read.
Amazon Price: $29.99 (as of 12/16/2009)
"Spring is here! Baby lamb is hungry!"
Counting Sheep - Math Workjobs
Mathmat Pastures
A green placemat or a piece of green felt glued onto coverstock works well as a pasture.
Fences
Fences can be made from Popsicle sticks, strawberry baskets or my favorite, potholder loops. The potholder loops don't make a noise when they fall on the floor, they stay together and don't tip over.
Sheep
Over the years I have collected nearly 100 Playmobil Sheep. These sheep work well in the strawberry baskets.
My favorite sheep, however, are ones that I made from Lima Beans. The Lima Beans are spray painted black on one side and left to dry. Features can be added on the white side with black permanent marker and on the black side with whiteout. Hairspray works as a fixative.
Entertaining with Caspari Set of 12 Crepe Placemats, Nile Green
A green placemat makes a wonderful mathmat when counting sheep.
Amazon Price: $14.00 (as of 12/16/2009)
Loop N Loom Refill 108/Pkg-Multi C
Loops can be used as fences for farm animals or to make sets for math.
Amazon Price: $10.84 (as of 12/16/2009)
Lima Beans, Large, 1 lb.
Spray paint the Lima Beans and turn them into sheep.
Amazon Price: $3.69 (as of 12/16/2009)
Economy Spray Paint, Gloss Black 10 oz
Spray the Lima Beans on one side and let them dry before adding the lamb's features.
Amazon Price: $2.29 (as of 12/16/2009)
Lion and Lamb Math Activities
Sheep Lambs and a Couple of Crows
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Try out these activities with your children.
If you enjoy them and find that they help your children learn math come back and vote for them.
If you think of another lamb or sheep related math activity, please add it to the list.
Lambs in the Pastures
Decide on the number of sheep for each pasture. Skip count to see how many.1 point
Black and White Sheep
Using 5 Lima Bean Sheep
1. Shake the lambs in your hand and spill them out onto the Mathmat Pasture.
2. Write the number of black lambs and the number of white lambs.
3. Add the numbers together.
ie: 2+3=51 point
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An excellent beginning reader is enjoyable for adult and child. It is able to tell the story with limited vocabulary and ample pictures that enhance the story. The story is pleasurable enough to read over and over by both the adult and the child. The story leaves both the adult and child eager to find out more about the subject.
Baby lamb is hungry in the spring.
Sheep are Mammals
Your Sheep: A Kid's Guide to Raising and Showing
A definitive guide to raising and showing sheep including housing, behavior, feeding, and health.
Amazon Price: $11.66 (as of 12/16/2009)
Life on a Sheep Farm (Life on a Farm)
Explains the activities that take place on a working sheep farm, from the perspective of a child who lives there.
Amazon Price: $23.93 (as of 12/16/2009)
From Sheep to Sweater (Start to Finish)
Describes how a sheep grows wool, and how that wool is processed, spun into yarn, and knitted into a sweater.
Amazon Price: $19.93 (as of 12/16/2009)
Sheep (First Step Nonfiction - Farm Animals)
A baby sheep drinks its mother's milk.
Amazon Price: $21.27 (as of 12/16/2009)
Baby Lambs born on a Farm
Baby Lambs Nursing
If possible, arrange for a field trip to a sheep farm in the early spring when the lambs are being born. Notice how short the wool is on a newborn lamb. Maybe you will be to see a baby lamb's first drink.
- Babs' lambs
- Photo Gallery of Ewes and Lambs born in a barn.
This is a beautiful series of photos showing the first couple of days of a lamb's life on a farm. These photos would be wonderful to use for observation in science or art and also could be used in measuring for math. - Lambs of Paradise Valley Farm
Baby Lamb's Worksheets
Learning to Read with Baby Lamb
- Matching Mothers and Babies
-Enchanted Learning- Farm Animal Families Cards and Noun Labels
20 picture cards, 20 word cards and 20 labelled picture cards of 5 different animal families:
Including the Sheep: ram, ewe, lamb
An excellent way of teaching children the names of various farm animals and the different names of the male, female and young animals.
Downloadable pdf file.
-Absorbent Minds Montessori Language
Poems and Finger Plays about Sheep and Lambs
- Finger plays for nursery and ... - Google Books
- Finger plays for nursery and kindergarten by Emilie Poulsson, Cornelia C. Roeske
Scroll down to page 14 for a finger play called The Lambs.
Beverley Randell
Learn more about this incredible author!
- Beverley Randell
Beverley One of New Zealand's most treasured and influential writers of children's books.
RANDELL, Beverley (1931-) is an internationally recognised author of books for children. To date, sixteen publishers, in several languages, in six countries, have published her books.
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Look Who's Twittering about Nursing Lambs
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- kait_rich
- http://twitpic.com/tnl0y - My boyfriend for the afternoon loves Nutri-grain Bars milk and stuffed lambs
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- markvanbaale
- @mpaynknoper That makes sense now. LOL. Lambs need to get milk to survive. #agchat
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- mpaynknoper
- @derekbalsley You seriously didn't know sheep gave milk? How else do lambs get food? #agchat
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- ocdgirl2000
- @SunflowerBoutiq You need a couple of goats & lambs! sheep make some wool,goats some milk and cheese!
Have you ever watched a baby lamb nurse?
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- ElizabethJeanAllen ElizabethJeanAllen Dec 9, 2009 @ 5:59 pm
- What a lovely lens!
Thanks for sharing
Lizzy
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- Evelyn_Saenz Evelyn_Saenz Dec 10, 2009 @ 8:20 am
- Thank you, Lizzy, for visiting the Sheep family.
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- tonyab tonyab Apr 24, 2009 @ 2:44 pm
- Hello Evelyn - what a lovely lens! Thanks for adding it to the Kid Stories group!
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- kellywissink kellywissink Apr 16, 2009 @ 7:46 pm
- 5 Stars!
Welcome to the Home Schooling Support Group!- Kelly
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- tandemonimom tandemonimom Apr 9, 2009 @ 10:10 pm
- Excellent lens! 5* and this lens is now a Featured Lens on the newly revamped Homeschooling Group (under new management)!
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