There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick Week: Thursday!

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick Week: 

Thursday!

Crafts:

• Cottage Cheese Carton Basket: Cottage Cheese Carton, tissue paper, paper fasteners, construction paper, pipe cleaners, green crepe paper grass

1. Cover an empty cottage cheese carton with tissue paper, finger-painted paper, or ruffled crepe paper.
2. Use paper fasteners to hook on a paper handle, or make a handle from pipe cleaners.
3. Fill with green paper grass.

• Fluffy Chick: Cotton balls, yellow powdered tempera paint, construction paper, crayons

1. Drop some cotton balls into a bag with some yellow powdered tempera paint.  Shake well to turn the cotton yellow.
2. Then, draw an outline of a chick on paper.
3. Glue the cotton balls inside the outline to from a cute, fluffy chick.

• Pom Pom Bunny Frame: Pom poms(white-1" two 1/2", two 10mm; Orange- 3/4, 1/2", 10mm; Pink 5mm), Pipe cleaners(hot pink 6mm, pink 6mm, green 6mm, White bump), two 5mm gogglie eyes, pink and yellow fun foam, white paper, black marker, magnet strip, 1/4" hole punch

1. Make a square frame from the pink fun foam (3 x 3)  Cut out a (1 x 1) inch square hole out of the center of the frame.
2. Take pink pipe cleaner and glue it around the square to form a frame.
3. Glue orange pom poms to bottom right frame to form a carrot.  Use small pom pom at bottom and then go up in size.  Curve carrot a little.  Use green pipe cleaners for the stems of carrot.  Make 3 small loops for carrot tops.
4. Glue the biggest pom pom above small frame and in the middle.  Then on each side of bunny's head glue a white pom pom for the hands of bunny.
5. On the face of bunny glue eyes, smallest pink pom pom for the nose and the two small pom poms for the cheeks.
6. Make a loop with the white pipe cleaner  for the ears and place a pink pipe cleaner in the middle of the ear.  Make a second ear.  Glue them onto the back of the bunny's head.  
7. Take a hole puncher and punch out 10 yellow holes. Keep dots for frame and glue them around the frame.
8. Write "Some Bunny Loves You" on paper , glue behind opening.  
9. Glue magnet on back.

Activities:

• Hop-Along Game: Roll of 2" -wide painter's tape (or masking tape), playground ball (or soft, medium-size ball with a little "give".  1 for each child.

1. Mark a starting and finish line on the lawn by laying a 6-foot-long strip of tape along the ground.  Roll out the tape, sticky side down, in 12-inch sections, pressing it down with your feet as you go.
2. Have the children line up.  Give each child a soft playground ball to put between with it in place.  
3. When you announce "Ready, set, go!" all the children hop down the lawn, trying not to let their balls go.
4. When a child drops his ball, he simply places it back between his knees on hopping.
5. Allow all the children ample time to hop down to the finish line and back one or more times.
6. When everyone is tired, call for a rest.  ("Looks like we're tiring out those balls! Time to give them a rest.")

• Bouncing Bazooka Bull's Eye: Laundry basket, large unbreakable mixing bowl,  masking tape, plastic eggs or ping pong balls

1. This game should be played against a wall clear of furniture.  
2. Position the laundry basket snugly up against the wall.  
3. Place the large mixing bowl on the floor, 3 feet in front of the laundry basket.
4. Use the masking tape to create a pitching line 6 to 8  feet away from the wall.
5. Tape masking tape around the eggs so that they don't fall apart.
6. Your child stands behind the pitching line and tosses the egg or ball against any area of the wall, trying to get the ball to land either inside the basket or bowl for a bull's-eye.
7. Each ball must bounce against the wall before dropping inside the basket or bowl in order to score a point.  
8. Score 5 points for each egg or ball in the basket and 10 points for each ball in the bowl. If a ball bounces inside the bowl and bounces out again, score 7 points.

• How To Make Ana Egg Float? Egg, 2 drinking glasses, water, salt

1. Pour water into one glass until it to half full.  Put the egg into the water.  Notice what happens.
2. Now add 3 tablespoons of salt, stir gently, and observe what happens.
3. Pour water into the second glass until it is half full.  Stir in 10 tablespoons of salt.  Slowly add fresh water until the glass is full.  Do not stir.  Gently lower in the egg.
4. In the fresh water the egg sinks.  As you add salt, it floats higher and higher.  When you add fresh water to the very salty water, the egg is suspended in the middle.
5. The denser the liquid the greater its upward life, or buoyancy.  Salt makes the water denser.
6. When you add fresh water to the salty water, it remains on top.  The egg sinks through it and floats on the lower, denser salty water. 

Snacks:

• Marshmallows (all sizes and colors) and peanut butter:  To make bunnies just put peanut butter on the marshmallows and they will stick together.  Your child can eat away the marshmallows to make bunny ears.  

Music/Rhymes:

• Little Bunny Foo Foo: Words are found on the traditional music website

• Bunny Pokey Sung to: "Hokey Pokey"

You put your bunny ears in
(Place hands on head to make ears)
You put your bunny ears out.
You put your bunny ears in.
And you shake them all about.
You do the Bunny Pokey
And hop yourself around,
That's what it's all about!
Additional verses: "You put your bunny nose in, You put your bunny tail in,
You put your bunny paws in"

My daughter loves this song, they taught it to her at her school and she is always singing it.

• Very Cute Bunny and Easter songs for the kids at Child Fun Website

Education:

Letters/Words

• Word of the day: Index card, pen

1. Word
2. Look at the whole word carefully
3. Say the word aloud 
4. Spell the word. Say each letter aloud.
5. Write the word from memory.  Cover the word and write it.
6. Check your written word against the correct spelling.
7. Circle errors, and repeat steps 4 and 5.  

Numbers

• Play a game of chutes and ladders with your child and have them count out each step.

• Number play:

1. One person does something like clap hands 3 times and everyone must match them.
2. Then, the next person does something like hop on one foot, for 5 hops.
3. Then, the next person picks something to do like touch their toes 8 times.  
4. Keep this up until someone runs out of things.  You can do things like: touch your nose, flap your wings, spin around, stick out your tongue, etc.

Books:

• Max's Easter Surprise(Max and Ruby) by Rosemary Wells
• Max's Worm Cake (Max and Ruby) by Rosemary Wells
• In Elmo's Easter Parade by Naomi Kleinburg 
• Happy Easter Biscuit by Alyssa Satin Capucilli

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick Week: Thursday!

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick Week: Tuesday!

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick Week

Tuesday!

Crafts:

• Chick Mask: Paper plate half, orange construction paper, two 12" lengths of yellow yarn, yellow paint, several small feathers, scissors, hole puncher, glue, paintbrush

1. Paint the paper plate half yellow.  Let the paint dry.
2. To make the mask, cut the rim off the plate to make the 3 bumps on the head.
3. Cut out two eyeholes above the straight edge of the mask.
4. Cut out an orange triangle beak.  Glue the beak and feathers to the mask.  When the glue is dry, fold the beak up so that it points forward.
5. Punch a hole on each of the mask, just slightly above the right and left eye.  
6. Tie a length of yarn to each hole.

• Plastic Eggshell Chick: Plastic egg, yellow paint, cotton balls, plastic bag, construction paper, scissors, glue, index card

1. Place some yellow paint in a plastic bag.  Drop two cotton balls inside the bag.  Shake well.  Remove the two yellow-colored cotton balls.
2. Glue the two cotton balls together to form the body and head of a chick.  Glue the chick inside an empty half of a plastic eggshell, so the chick is just peeking over the eggshell.
3. Cut a tiny beak and eyes from paper, and carefully glue them to the head of the chick.  If the eggshell half does not set up easily, glue it to an index card or a small piece of paper.  

• Crayon-Resist Egg: 9 x 12 inch sheet of manilla paper, crayons, light colored paint

1. From a 9 x 12 inch sheet of manilla paper, cut out a large egg shape.
2. Color designs on the egg with crayons, being sure to press very hard!
3. Then paint the egg with a light color of thinned tempera paint.

Activities:

• Egg-on-a-Spoon Relay: Plastic spoons, plastic eggs, 4 buckets

1. Divide into two or three teams.
2. Place an empty bucket at the finish line.
3. Place a full bucket of plastic eggs for each team at the start line.  
4. Each team get a spoon.
5. On your "Go" the first players run to the finish line with an egg on their spoon to put it into the bucket.  If a player drops their egg, they pick it up and must start over again at the start line. Then they must run back and give their spoon to the next player.  
6. The first team to get rid all the eggs from their start bucket wins!

• Underwater "Eggspert": Fresh egg, deep cereal bowl, hot tap water, yellow food coloring

1. Carefully place the egg in the bottom of the bowl and fill the bowl with hot tap water.  Quickly add a little yellow food coloring.  Watch the egg closely for several minutes.
2. Streams of tiny bubbles rise to the top of the water from the submerged egg.
3. When the air inside the egg is heated by the hot water, the air molecules expand.  Many of the new crowded air molecules push their way out of the egg through some of the almost 7,000 openings, or pores, in the egg's shell.  These heated air molecules exit the egg, usually without cracking the shell, and rise to the water's surface as bubbles.

• Craft Apron and Printables for old lady story at Teaching Heart Website

Snacks:

• Ice cream with easter sprinkles

Music/Rhyme:

Turn Yourself Into Mr. Bunny:

"The Swinging Bunny": Have your children walk around in a circle as you say the following poem to a rap rhythm.

I'm going down the street

Going hippity hop, hippity hop, hippity hop

I'm going down the street

Going hippity hop

Hey there, look at me. (point to self)

" The Cool Bunny": Have your children to be a Cool Bunny (strut and move shoulders up and down with a swinging motion and walk in a circle snapping fingers.

I'm going down the street

Going bippity bop, bippity bop, bippity bop

I'm going down the street

Going bippity bop.

Hey there, look at me. (point to self)

Ask the children to walk in a circle on their tiptoes.

I'm going down the street

Going tippity-top, tippity-top, tippity top(walk on tiptoes)

I'm going down the street

Going Tippity-top

Hey there, look at me.  (point to self)

Ask the children to walk in a circle with their knees bent and shaking their pretend tails.

I'm going down the street

Going dippity dop, dippity dop (bend knees and shake tail)

I'm going down the street

Going dippity dop

Hey there, look at me. (point to self)

Tell the children the last bunny is tired and sits down to rest

Show me your bunny eyes

Show me your ears

Show me your nose

Show me your mouth.

When I say lippity(smile)

When I say lop(frown)

Lippity(smile)

Lop(frown)

Lippty(smile)

Lop(frown)

I'm going down the street

Going lippity lop(smile and frown)

Lippity lop(smile and frown)

Lippity lop(smile and frown)

I'm going down the street

Going lippity lop

Hey there, look at me.(point to self)

Education:

Letters/Words

• Word of the day: Index card, pen

1. by
2. Use this word in sentences, so your child understands the meaning of the word and how to use it.  Example: The candy bar is by the stove.  Dad is by the car.  

• Word Holder:  Envelopes, scissors, glue or stapler, index cards, black marker, poster board

1. Take an envelope, seal it shut and fold it in half.  Cut it in half.  Then take the halves and cut about a half inch more off the top.  Make 26 halves.
2. Take an envelope half and write a letter of the alphabet on each one.  Glue or staple the envelopes to the poster board in alphabetical order.
3. Use this word holder to put in your child's word of the day cards and any other words they may know.  
4. If you want them to have more cards, put more words on index cards but put pictures with words, so they can put the words and pictures together.  You can put the pictures on the back of the index cards if you want.

Numbers

• Egg Carton Number Count: Small items like beans, coins, paper clips, shells, pebbles, cereal, beads, crackers, jelly beans, egg carton, black permanent marker, paper bags

1. Cut the top off the egg carton.
2. Place the items into their own bag. Pennies in one bag, coins in another, etc. 
3. Write the numbers 1-12 on each egg section on the bottom or side.
4. Then have your child start placing the items in the egg section according to the number.  They can put 1 bean in the number one slot, 2 pennies in the number 2 slot, etc. 

Books:

• Home For A Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
• Bunny by Pam Adams
• Bunny Numbers by Dick McCue
• Sunny Bunny Tales(Max and Ruby) by Grosset and Dunlap 
• The Baby Chicks Are Singing by Ashley Wolff

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick Week: Tuesday!