They were encouraged to draw a wing with feathers in their fine motor journals. I placed hexagons on the table, they counted the number of letters in their name and cut out the hexagons.
This week we are wrapping up parts of a bird. We have completed head, beak and body. Today we talked about wings! Birds have hollow forelimbs that are covered with feathers called wings. Bird wings are extremely light and made mostly of feathers and hollow bones. They are uniquely shaped and use the wind to make flying easier. All birds have feathers and wings, though not all wings are used for flight. A penguin is an example of a flightless bird. During this Invitation to Create, children explored creating wing designs using a feather and paint. They freely explored a feather as a paint brush, a stamping tool or could even glue to their paper. Some chose to cut out a wing, some simply painted their paper. Process based art allows children to explore art with nontraditional tools and an open-ended approach. They were encouraged to draw a wing with feathers in their fine motor journals. I placed hexagons on the table, they counted the number of letters in their name and cut out the hexagons.
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Birds are warm-blooded. This means they have a fairly high body temperature that does not change much and is not affected by the surrounding temperature. They often puff up their bodies and feathers to show off their authority or to appear threatening to predators. Birds are eating constantly during the day. Chickadees can eat up to 35% of their body weight daily while hummingbirds eat 100% of their body weight in nectar daily. They were given an oval lacing card and encouraged to decorate the ovals with markers and eye stickers. They laced the ovals together and stuffed the "bird body" with scrap paper. They flew and continued to feed birds until they were stuffed!
In their journals they were encouraged to draw eight pairs of bird watching eyes (working on counting to 16). Birds have bones that are hollow on the inside like straws. This makes their bones extremely light and helps them to fly. Birds are able to protect themselves from land predators by flying. I showed them a plastic bone, drinking straw and feather to show the difference between hollow and solid. We made a dancing dove using a coffee filter, markers, and yarn. I cut out the bird shape and they decorated the birds. They flew these birds all over the yard!
They were encouraged to draw a nest and 15 eggs. I demonstrated in my journal to how to make x's to make a nest and blue eggs. They practiced cutting feathers today. The older children had additional lines on the feather to cut the younger children simply cut around the feather. They glued in their fine motor journals. They chose the color they wanted for their handprint, we turned the handprints into birds! Most birds eat fruit, plants, seeds, insects, and other small animals. Birds don't have any teeth so their bodies have to digest their food whole. We used squirmy worms to paint the items on I Spy K Coloring sheet (Kk, kangaroo, key and kite. They rolled the worms on each item! We made letter Kk puzzle and sorted letters Kk and Mm.
Chicks can take up to 24 hours to hatch. They have plump on their top beak called an "egg tooth" to help them break the shell and push out. Breaking out of the shell is called "pipping." They each made their own pet bird using cardboard tube, feathers, google eyes, and paint sticks.
We used the loose letter Kk mat, and each child tore paper into small pieces and were encouraged to make the letter Kk with their "egg shells." They worked together to form both upper and lowercase Kk. We used play dough to roll baby eggs and count. Not all birds' beaks are the same. For example, eagles, owls and other meat-eating birds have curved beaks while woodpeckers have strong pointed beaks to drill into wood and find food. Did you know that birds can see two or three times farther than humans? Today they colored a cone cup and we made into beak. They searched for food using their beaks.
For fine motor they colored letter Mm, cut out and pasted in their journals. I drew an M in their journals, they were encouraged to turn the "M" into a bird by adding a tail, wings and claws! They also practiced forming humps in their journals. |
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