Old Macdonald’s Farm

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and use a selection of vocabulary words in a nursery rhyme poem to describe some of the different animals that live on a farm.

The class can choose and record words to describe some of the characters that feature in the poem and suggest other animals that could be described in alternative verses.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and use a selection of vocabulary words in a nursery rhyme poem to describe some of the different animals that live on a farm

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and define descriptive vocabulary used in a poem to describe animals, a template to select vocabulary to complete a sentence to describe a farm animal and a worksheet to identify and record some of the objects that begin with different letters of the alphabet.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use vocabulary in a nursery rhyme poem to describe some of the different animals that live on a farm.

This lesson is part of a literacy scheme of work to get the children to identify and describe the sequence of events and characters that feature in a range of different narrative poems with rhymes. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

  • Animal Sizes

    Animal Sizes

    Practise using the correct vocabulary words to identify and describe the sizes of different animals that live in the world

  • Animal Words

    Animal Words

    Identify and match sets of statements to describe the sizes of a range of different animals using the vocabulary words of bigger and smaller

  • Animal Lengths

    Animal Lengths

    Identify and match sets of statements to describe the length of a range of different animals using the vocabulary words of longer and shorter

  • Animal Heights

    Animal Heights

    Identify and match sets of statements to describe the height of a range of different animals using the vocabulary words of taller and shorter