Provide hands-on activities for practice and mastery. Check for understanding of concepts and skills by using relevant standard materials, i.e. worksheets, text problems, workbooks, teacher prepared exercises, etc.

Centers: Listening, Book Nook, Writing, Math

Objective: To provide hands-on opportunities for children to experience/extend what they learned in Step 4.

Activity:
Centers: Listening, book nook, writing, math. Listening: Children will listen to books on tape about farm animals; listen to tape of animal sounds and match sounds to pictures of animals; listen to farm animal songs and respond to taped riddles about farm animals.
Book Nook: Read books and magazines about farm animals.
Writing Center: Write/dictate about favorite animal--this will be used in the Big Book that will be completed in Step 7. Unscramble letters to make farm words; write a description of what was seen at the farm; respond to why you would or wouldn't like to live on a farm; add labels or sentence strips to Polaroid pictures on bulletin board.
Math: Sequence animal pictures by size; sort animal pictures by size, shape, color, coverings; count and graph farm animals; complete math worksheets on addition and subtraction; write word problems.

Assessment: Quality of student participation and worksheets.