Sharks, Week of May 11
🦅 Birds & Eggs 🥚
Monday May 11
Music Monday- Here are some favorite songs to sing with your preschooler.
· Miss Mary Mack
· Two Little Blackbirds
· A Ram Sam Sam
· Sally the Camel
· ABCs
· Kookaburra
Creative Exploration
Egg Shaker Instrument
Use plastic eggs to make your own shakers. Use rice, beans, sand, flour, coffee or coffee beans, or popcorn kernels to fill your eggs. Close them up and shake. Listen to how the sound changes with different fillings. When you find a sound that you like, tape the egg closed and decorate it if you’d like. Sing and play!
Science
Explore Eggs
Research the variety of size, shape, colors, and patterns of birds’ eggs. Record what you find out by drawing pictures, printing pictures, or writing a list. Use this research for “Artistic Eggs”. Instructions on Tuesday. Here are some websites to get you started.
Naturally Vibrant Bird Eggs
Egg and Nest Identification
Literacy
· Read Aloud- The Egg
Bird Word Wall - Print Word Wall. Cut words apart. Read each word and draw a small illustration showing the meaning of each word. *This challenge could be great for the whole family to help with, especially older siblings!
Numeracy
A dozen eggs
Use an empty egg carton to explore the idea of “a dozen. Have your child estimate how many eggs the carton will hold. Let them check their guess by putting plastic or paper eggs in each cup
Tuesday May 12
Creative Exploration
Artistic Eggs
Eggs come in many sizes, colors, and pattern. Research some different types of eggs to see the variety. Cut egg shapes of different sizes then use different techniques to color them. Watch this video of Miss Caroline to learn a technique for making marbled eggs.
Be a baby bird
Wrap yourself completely up in a blanket. Imagine you are a baby bird in an egg. Slowly work to hatch out of your egg.
Literacy
Read Aloud- Where Do Chicks Come From
Bird Word Wall - Finish drawing your illustrations and/or sort the words by first letter. Practice writing some of the words on paper, a white board, or in chalk outside.
Chicken Life Cycle - After watching the short video draw a diagram showing the chicken life cycle
Numeracy
A dozen eggs
Label the cups of an empty egg carton 1-12. Cut out paper eggs, or use plastic eggs, and write the numbers 1-12 or corresponding number of dots. Have your child put the eggs in their correct cups. Can they find them in order? Can they find them backwards?
Science
How chicks hatch- Watch this video of a baby chick hatching.
Wednesday May 13
Creative Exploration
Tie Dye Eggs
If you make hard boiled eggs for a cooking project add this fun step! Watch the video to see Miss Caroline show you how to tie-dye the shell of your eggs using paper towels, rubber bands, and food coloring.
Handprint Birds in a Nest
Trace around both your hands on brown paper, or color it brown when you’re done, and cut them out. Trace around one hand again on a different colored paper, or color your handprint in, and cut it out. glue the two brown hands together with the fingers joined, to make the nest. Add eyes and a beak to the other handprint and glue it inside the nest.
Literacy
Read Aloud—The Golden Egg Book
Journal Entry
In the beginning of the story “The Golden Egg Book” a bunny finds an egg and imagines what might be inside. Draw a large egg shape in your journal or on a blank piece of paper. If you found a big egg, and it could have anything inside, what would you want it to be? Draw what you’d like to hatch out inside the egg.
Numeracy
Print the Black and White game board. Each player chooses one color crayon or marker. Take turns rolling the dice and coloring in the corresponding color
Cooking Project
· Meringues
· Hard Boiled eggs - after an adult cooks the eggs let them cool. Let the child peel and cut the egg in half. Use egg vocabulary such as shell, yolk, white or albumen
· Deviled eggs - hard boil some eggs and let them cool. Let the child peel and cut the eggs in half. Remove the yolks to another bowl. Have the child mash them with a fork then stir in a small amount of mayo, mustard, salt, and pepper. Put the mixture into a zip-top bag and snip one corner. Let the child squeeze the yolk mixture back into the egg-white halves. Enjoy!
Community Adventure
Nest and Egg Walk
Go for a walk outside and look for nests and eggs. Where do you think you’ll find them? Can you see what types of materials the birds used to make the nests?
IMPORTANT: IF YOU FIND EGGS BY THEMSELVES OR IN A NEST DO NOT TOUCH THEM! LEAVE THEM WHERE THEY ARE!
Even if you find an egg on the ground, all by itself, with no nest around, it may be a species of bird that uses a scrape nest (just a simple scrape in the dirt) and they will return to lay more eggs until they have a full clutch before they start incubating the eggs. Please do not disturb nests or eggs that you discover.
Thursday May 14
Thursday
Creative Exploration
Artistic Eggs
Do you still have some paper egg shapes. If not, cut some more and try this technique for making speckled eggs. Mix the paints with water to thin it out. Dip an old, clean toothbrush into the paint. Hold the toothbrush close to the paper and angled so the paint will splatter onto the paper.
Pull flat tool, like a popsicle stick or plastic knife, across the bristles of the toothbrush.
Experiment by adding more or less water to the paint or holding the toothbrush closer or further away from the paper.
Hatching egg craft.
Use paper plates and paper, felt, or draw to create an animal that can hatch out of an egg. If you don’t want to use plates you make a similar craft using paper.
Literacy
Read Aloud-An Egg is Quiet by Diana Aston
Letter Match
Take plastic eggs that come apart and write an uppercase letter on one half and the lowercase letter on the other half. Let your child work at matching the correct upper and lowercase letters and putting the eggs back together.
OR
Print this page. Cut the eggs on the line, or let your student do it, and have kids match the uppercase to the lowercase like a puzzle
Movement
You are the ABCs
Use your body to form the letters of the alphabet. Get the family involved by working together to make the letters.
Friday May 15
Creative Exploration
Hatching play dough eggs
Collect some small animal toys. Use playdough to create a “shell” around the animals then help them hatch. Make it a game by seeing if someone in your family can guess which animal will hatch out of each playdough egg.
Potato Stamp Chicks
Start by cutting a potato in half and drying it off really good with a paper towel. Dip the potato face down in yellow paint then stamp down hard on a piece of paper. After the yellow paint dries, add details like a beak, feet, and eyes.
Literacy
Read Aloud-Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones by Ruth Heller
Initial sound match
use your plastic eggs with letters on them and see if you can find an object that begins with each letter that will fit inside.
OR
Print this page. Cut the eggs apart and have your child match the object with the correct letter.
Letter Egg Hunt
Use your plastic or paper eggs with letters on them and hide them around the yard or house. Let your kids find the eggs. When they think they’ve found them all, put them in ABC order. Did they find them all? Which letters are missing?
Numeracy
Number Egg Hunt
Use your plastic or paper eggs with numbers on them and hide them around the yard or house. Let your kids find the eggs. When they think they’ve found them all, put them in order. Did they find them all? Which numbers are missing? If your child has mastered 1-12 try writing different numbers like 30-40 for example.
Notes
We Miss the Sharks!
This Shark friend LOVES superheroes! In fact, on most days she wore superhero outfits to school and flew around outside. Can you guess who it is? Dress up like a superhero today and think about our friend.
This Shark friend travelled to Peru to visit her family. When she came back to school she shared pictures of her family and the dogs she spent time with. Enjoy these stories that take place in Peru while thinking of our friend. Can you guess who it is?
The Littlest Llama by Jane Buxton
Maria Had a Little Llama by Angela Dominguez