Domestic Sheep Notebooking Pages and Resources

Sheep have been a popular farm animal for millennia. Your students can use these free sheep notebooking pages to write about this woolly ruminant.

Students in 2nd to 8th grades can use these Sheep printables as a part of their study about these domesticated even-toed ungulates.

Let your students use these three differentiated levels of the Sheep Notebooking Printables as a part of their science and biology study while they write, draw, and color what they’ve learned about these farm mammals that provide meat, milk, and wool.

Sheep Notebooking Pages

With these Sheep notebooking pages, your kids can write about the Ovis aries, the farm mammal that usually has curly, crimped wool for hair. Sheep don’t like to be alone and are generally kept in a flock. Herding dogs are often used to help manage sheep.

Learn about their scientific name, write about their diet, define common sheep and lambing terms, and write interesting facts about the history of sheep.

There are over 900 different breeds of sheep; choose a few to learn about.

Or they can write facts about the life cycle of a sheep and the different names for males, females, and their young.

Topics included in these farm animal printables:

• Sheep
• Wool Sheep
• Hair Sheep
• Ewe, Ram, Wether, Yearling, or Lamb?
• Sheep Breeds
• Life Cycle of Sheep
• Sheep in History and Religion
• Harvesting Wool
• Differences between Sheep and Goats
• External Anatomy of a Sheep

These free notebooking printables would even work for copying poems or quotes about sheep for handwriting practice.

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Recommended Resources for Your Study of Sheep

Books List

Sheep (Animals on the Farm) by Wendy Strobel Dieker OR Sheep (Animals That Live on the Farm) by Joann Early Macken

Lambs (Blastoff! Readers: Watch Animals Grow) by Anne Wendorff

From Sheep to Sweater (Start to Finish, Second Series) by Robin Nelson

The Sheepover: Sweet Pea and Friends by John and Jennifer Churchman

The Guardian Team: On the Job With Rena and Roo by Cat Urbigkit

Storey’s Guide to Raising Sheep (the book you need if you want to raise sheep)

Videos and Online Resources

Basic Sheep Facts (includes a video)

Sheep and Lambs 101

Look up characteristics about any breed of sheep from this playlist of sheep breeds videos (Some you don’t want to miss: Racka Sheep, Jacob’s sheep, Katadhin (the kind we used to have), Valais Blacknose Sheep, and Ouessant (the world’s smallest).

Learn about the differences between sheep and goats

Everything you need to know about hair sheep

Watch a couple of border collies herding the sheep to a new pasture

Learn about wool with SciShowKids

Find out how much wool a sheep produces

Your kids that aren’t squeamish can learn more about eating lamb and mutton, and raising sheep for meat.

Your older kids will enjoy this video from the History Guy about the Cotswald lions (sheep) of Britian.

Hands-on Activities

Make this cute wool yarn sheep craft using the instructions from my sister’s Etsy shop (under $2) or get the whole craft kit which includes yarn made from my niece’s sheep.

Your younger kids will want to use this sheep template to create a fluffy sheep craft.

Sheep Notebooking & Journal Printables

These notebooking pages come in 3 different levels to fit all of your student’s needs. There’s a large elementary lined one, a smaller elementary lined one, and a regular lined one.

These notebooking pages come in color graphics, full color photos, and in black/white in case you are trying to save on printer ink costs. There are 32 printable pages total.

Additionally, there is a full color Label the External Sheep Anatomy worksheet included in this pack.

More Resources for Your Study of Farm Animals

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