Beautiful Birds

This week during playtime the kids played with clay and plastic animals.

Our letter this week was short E. Some of the things in the Letter bag were a toy egg, an elf ornament, and an envelope. We had some Show-and-Tells that had to do with the bird theme, and some that started with E.

 

To start off, we talked about parts of an egg, and each child cracked an egg. We got to try some cooked egg too.

 

 

We had a special visitor this week, Miss Lauren's pet parakeet, Sunshine. Everyone took turns feeding him, petting him, and holding him.

 

 

Next we made "Happy 'Bird'-day" pop-ups cards. Each card had a pop-up bird beak with a yarn worm in it. The kids liked playing with the worms.

 

 

Afterwards, we pretended to be birds and built a pillow nest. The kids huddled up like eggs, and slowly hatched. Miss Lauren, the mother bird, gave everyone lots of different "bird" food, like seeds (chocolate chips), fruit, fish (Gold Fish), and more. If the baby birds wanted the food, they would open their mouth for Miss Lauren to drop food in. Finally Miss Lauren taught the baby birds to "fly." They flew around, but sometimes a bird would "fall," and Miss Lauren would have to help it up.

 

 

Miss Lauren brought out a pretend bird's nest, which we used for singing time. The kids picked out pieces of the nest, which had songs written on them, and we sang the songs on the papers.

 

 

Next we had pictures of birds in nests with numbers on them. The kids put the number of plastic eggs by the pictures as the number on them.

 

 

Then we made nests. We glued nest stuff on paper plates and placed an open plastic egg on top. Then we attached eyes and paper beaks to the eggs to make them into birds.

 

 

For our last activity we played a sound matching game. We took turns shaking plastic eggs with different things in it and tried to find the matches. When we were done, we made music with our eggs.

We're super "egg"-cited for another week of preschool!!!