At Lauren's Little Learners Preschool this week, we learned about an "egg"-citing topic, Beautiful Birds!!! Our letter of the week was E. In our letter bag we found an egg, an Etcha-Sketch, an elephant and more.
Our first activity was meeting a real bird!!!! Miss Lauren's pet, Sunshine, came to preschool and let us feed and hold him!!!
To celebrate this special occasion we made "Happy Bird-day!!!" cards. When we opened these pop-up cards, there was a tweeting bird inside them.
Then we learned about eggs. We discussed the different parts of an egg, and then each of the children took turns cracking an egg. We ate an omelet made out of the eggs we cracked!
Next we made a nest. We flew around and gathered the pieces to our nest, flew back and put it together, and then pretended to be baby birds. We began as eggs and hatched into baby chicks.
For snack we ate like baby birds. With their heads tipped back and their mouths open wide the children cheeped loudly for their snack. We ate lots of different bird snacks! Like gummy worms, Gold Fish Crackers, grapes, and seeds (candy corn).
Later we "napped" like birds. The children gathered under the mommy bird's wings (Miss Lauren's arms) and slept until it was time to practice flying!
Flying practice was lots of fun!!!! The baby birds all enjoyed flying, but sometimes a baby bird would "fall" and need help from the mommy bird!
When a baby bird learns to fly it makes it's own nest, so our last activity was making nests. We glued the pieces of our nests to a small paper plate. Then we made chicks for our nests. We opened an Easter egg and glued the inside to the nest. We glued paper beaks and googly eyes to the egg. This craft turned out really cute!!! Preschool went really fast this week, because time "flies" when your having fun and so do preschoolers!!!!
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