Learning on the Farm: An Education and Story Podcast for Kids

Hi everyone! We are so excited to share one of our friend Natalie Horseman's books today! We are going to be reading Goat on the Go: Scout's Muddy Day Scout is a real goat that Natalie writes fun adventures about. Don't forget to stay tuned after the story for some fun activities to see how much you remember from the story. If you'd like to see some of the pictures from the story c...

Hi everyone! This is our first Big Question Episode! And we can't wait to share it with you. Cordelia and I are studying digestion in homeschool, and a question about cud, and gizzards came up during Episode 3 of Detective Goat. So we are going to explore human, goat, and chicken digestive systems and all the fun terms that come along with them in this episode. Make sure to grab a pencil and paper...

We have Detective Goat and the farm animals back for another fun episode! Today the animals will solve riddles, spell CVC and short "a" words, and go on a scavenger hunt. I can't wait to share this one with you. Make sure to grab a pencil and paper so you can spell and solve this along with the animals. If you want more fun activities based off of the podcasts please check out our Patreon . There...

Hi all :) I am so excited to share this next episode of Detective Goat with you. It shows the origins of how Junior became known as a detective, and it is based off of a children's book that I am writing and illustrating. This episode's learning is all about addition and subtraction up to 20. There are even some 3 addend problems (where you are adding more than two numbers at a time). I will have...

Hi everyone :) We are excited to share another classic from my childhood, Where will the animals stay? by: Stephanie Calmenson and illustrated by: Ellen Appleby. This is an adorable book about zoo animals. We follow it up with some true false questions and fun facts about nine of the animals in the story. It is a longer episode, but well worth the listen for all the fun facts and learning. :) If y...

I am so excited to introduce our brand-new learning series called Detective Goat! Each episode will be a story starring our farm animals on a learning adventure or solving a mystery, involving Language Arts or Math Skills. Today's episode has a Language Arts theme of spelling and CVC words (consonant-vowel-consonant). The words spelled in the story are: fig hat sit rod dig The bonus spelling w...

Hi everyone, Please give this episode a listen to see all the awesome changes coming to the podcast and to learn a little more about the background of the show :) Thanks! Amanda

Today we are reading My Friend Is Sad by Mo Willems. This is an Elephant and Piggie book. We absolutely love this series! And are excited to share it with you. Our activity for today is thinking deeper, so we will be asking some questions about what we read and looking deeper at things. Hope you enjoy the story! If you like this one make sure to drop us a comment and follow for more :) Be sure to...

Hi everyone, Today's story is Moo Baa LaLaLa by: Sandra Boynton. We love all her books and the great pictures and funny sounds. Our activity for today is Guess That Animal Sound: Farm Animal Style :) We will play some sounds from our farm and other farms for you to guess. If you like this one make sure to heart it, leave us a comment, and consider following us for more stories and activities! Want...

Hi everyone, So excited to share one of my childhood favorites with you today. Who Put the Pepper in the Pot by Joanna Cole, pictures by R.W. Alley. Its a great story about a farm family that has a funny misunderstanding. Our activity afterwords is categories, and each category will relate back to the story. So, make sure to listen carefully. We had a lot of fun making this one, so we hope you enj...

Today we are reading Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza by Liza Charlesworth. This is part of a First Little Readers Leveled Books set we use for home-school. It's a Level E, so we are doing something different today and Cordelia will be our main reader! We are also trying out the video option for our podcast (per Cordelia's request), so that we can show you the pictures in the book. Let us know what yo...

Today we are reading Its Following Me by Sheri Radford! We love this story and its rhymes and cute pictures. After the story we are playing a game called categories. Thank you so much for joining us on the podcast. If you want to learn more about the farm and see cute pics and videos of our animals you can: Follow us on Social Media: ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠Facebook⁠, and ⁠Youtube ⁠@averyfamilyfarm Support...

Today we are reading Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boynton. You can dance along with us, then join us for a Guess in 5 game after the story, to guess two farm animals. We hope you enjoy the episode! Want more? Don't forget to follow our podcast, and you can also support us through Patreon at http://patreon.com/averyfamilyfarm If you are on social media and want to follow us you can find us @averyfamily...

Today's episode we are reading The Pout Pout Fish by: Deborah Diesen. This is a great story with lots of fun rhymes, colorful illustrations, and a good message. For our activity we are going to act out pouting and smiling through yoga poses. Yoga poses can be a great way to express things, as well as a wonderful way to calm the mind and body. If you like this one don't forget to follow our podcast...

Todays' episode we will be reading one of our favorite bedtime stories. Its a sweet tale about a baby raccoon and his mother, and the book has absolutely lovely illustration. Highly recommend for getting from the library or adding it to your own library. Our activity is a question answer session based on what we learn in the book, and a task to give someone you know a kissing hand. Want to see...

Hi everyone :) For this episode we are reading Little Blue Truck by: Alice Schertle. Our activity for today is Guess that Animal. We will play you the sounds of two of our farm animals to see if you can guess what they are. When you get to that part, you may need to turn the sound up a little, because our mic was filtering unnecessary sounds. If you want to learn more about our animals, we made a...

Today we are reading No Two Alike by Keith Baker. This has been one of our favorites for a while. And today I have Cordelia with me! We love the illustrations in this book, and it is a great beginning reader for your child as well. Our activity will follow along with the two red birds who are finding things that are similar but not quite the same. And we will be thinking of things that are the sam...

Today we are reading The Little Engine That Could by: Watty Piper. We got this book from Dolly Parton's Imagination Library . It is a wonderful resource for building your very own children's library. They send one book a month per family to kids 5 and under, in an effort to help reading be accessible for all young children. Many of the books we received will be great far into the elementar...