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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Farm birds

CHICKENS/ROOSTERS/CHICKS:
DISCUSS & LEARN:
*Difference in a chicken, a rooster and a chick
*Why do farms have chickens, roosters and chicks?
*What do they eat?
*Body parts.
*Can they fly?


ACTIVITIES:
*File folder games: click here for a farm animal game and to check out even more go here

*Feather rooster count: make a rooster and five feather tails. On the roosters bottom write the numbers 1-5. One the tails make dots matching the numbers (one tail has one dot, one tail has two dots, etc.). Place velcro on the roosters bottom and on the bottom of the tails. Have your child match up the feathers to the correct number on the rooster.

*Dance to the Chicken Dance song


MAKE:
*Dinosaur eggs: make hard boiled eggs. Let the eggs cool and dry. Then gently crack the egg so you have small tiny cracks all over. Let your eggs soak in cups of water dyed with food coloring for several hours. Or to make the time go by faster: overnight! Then peel the shell off to reveal your dinosaur egg. (Idea taken from Our Best Bites)


BOOKS:
The Little Red Hen: there are many authors pick your favorite
Chicken Cheeks by Michael Ian Black
Tillie Lays an Egg by Terry Blonder Golson
Chicken Little by Steven Kellogg
Rooster's Off to See the World by Eric Carle
Wake Up, Henry Rooster! by Margriet Ruurs
Rooster Can't Cock-A-Doodle-Doo by Karen Rostoker-Gruber
This Little Chick by John Lawrence


SONGS:
HICKETY PICKETY MY BLACK HEN
Hickety, pickety, my black hen,
She lays eggs for gentlemen;
Gentlemen come every day
To see what my black hen doth lay,
Sometimes nine and sometimes ten,
Hickety, pickety, my black he

CHICKEN: go here for words

HUMPTY DUMPTY
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.


RECIPES:
*Eat chicken nuggets
*Make fried chicken and other chicken recipes
*Make eggs: omelets, scrambled, poached, hard boiled, fried, etc.


DUCKS/GEESE:
DISCUSS & LEARN:
*Body parts of ducks and geese
*Learn about other water fowl
*What do their eggs look like?
*What do they eat?
*Why do ducks put their head under water?


ACTIVITIES:
*Feed the ducks and geese at your local park

*Play duck, duck, goose


MAKE:
*Make you own feather pillow cases.


BOOKS:
Ugly Duckling: there are many authors pick your favorite
Duck on a Bike by David Shannon
The Day a Goose Got Loose by Reeve Lindbergh
Have You Seen My Duckling by Nancy Tafuri
Five Little Ducks by J. Geering
One Duck Stuck by Phyllis Root
The Little Duck by Judy Dunn
The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack
The fable: The Goose and The Golden Egg


SONGS:
5 LITTLE DUCKS
Five little ducks
Went out one day
Over the hill and far away
Mother duck said
"Quack, quack, quack, quack."
But only four little ducks came back.

Four little ducks
Went out one day
Over the hill and far away
Mother duck said
"Quack, quack, quack, quack."
But only three little ducks came back.

Three little ducks
Went out one day
Over the hill and far away
Mother duck said
"Quack, quack, quack, quack."
But only two little ducks came back.

Two little ducks
Went out one day
Over the hill and far away
Mother duck said
"Quack, quack, quack, quack."
But only one little duck came back.

One little duck
Went out one day
Over the hill and far away
Mother duck said
"Quack, quack, quack, quack."
But none of the five little ducks came back.

Sad mother duck
Went out one day
Over the hill and far away
The sad mother duck said
"Quack, quack, quack."
And all of the five little ducks came back.

For more great ideas and activities on ducks go here.

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