Eggs! So many animals lay them! With feathers or fur, with scales and skin…some sit with them, some leave them at the shore, but all are creatures we adore… maybe? Check out our Pinterest board HERE. Most of the ‘paper trail’ stuff is here. We’ve been slowly getting Easter books in, so I’m adding them to topical books since Easter and eggs seem to go together very well! This entire unit was planned around the song ‘I know a chicken’.. we even bought some ‘shaky eggs’… check it out below under MUSIC. I’ve been gathering ideas for the kids to learn about eggs for a long time, and I think they’re having a lot of fun with it.
Media/Kit: Chickens aren’t the only ones by Heller (Reading Rainbow kit with book and video)
Music/Media: Youtube video ‘I know a chicken’ by Laurie Berkner [we subbed in alligator, platypus, octopus, bluebird, etc]
Topical books:
The Berenstain Bears and the Real Easter Eggs by Berenstain
Here Comes T Rex Cottontail by Grambling
First the Egg by Seeger (good for early readers)
The Golden Egg Book by Brown
God Gave Us Easter by Bergren
Pete the Cat Big Easter Adventure by Dean
The Biggest Easter Basket Ever by Kroll
ONE FROM KIT (see above)
A few from last week
7 year old Independent reading
Singing Sensation by Stilton
The Abominable Snowman Doesn’t Roast Marshmallows by Dadey
4 yo reading together
5 stinky socks by Benton (she read it!)
Paper trail
writing- 7 year old A-Z things that hatch from eggs/lay eggs
writing-4 yo Chicken/Egg Acrostic
art/math-draw a series of patterns on a large egg and then color
Paper book insert “What’s Inside” from 4-H egg incubator handbook (shows stages of embryology in egg/chickens)
4 yo- coloring pages[crayola, twisty noodle,], maze,dot to dot, tracing and writing Easter words, letter identification [home school pre-school]
7 yo- maze (same as above), word unscrambles [year round homeschooling], coloring pages and matching, [twisty noodle, crayola]
