A Nest Full of Eggs

Love this book!

by: Priscilla Betz Jenkins

Tells a full circle story of a Robin's life cycle.

After story time we made a Robin's nest.

 I cut this with my Cricut. 

 Assembly was very easy.

 Then they added yarn and the Robin eggs.
This craft will go in their ABC Binders

 Then they worked on Nest Lacing found at Confessions of a Homeschooler

I think she figured she needed to measure the n est first!

Thanks for stopping by,

Lori

Birds Nest Craft

Continuing with our Birds Unit and moving on to Nest and the letter Nn.

We started off by reading "Are You My Mother?" by P.D. Eastman

The story is about a little bird who hatches from his egg and wonder's where's his mother and begins a journey to find her. 

After reading the it was time for our Birds Nest Craft, which we actually started yesterday.

 We gathered our supplies:
Yarn
Glue
Water
Balloons
Scissors
Plastic cups
Tot Trays
Smocks
Large Bowl
Rags for clean up

Already having our balloons blown and waiting in cups...

 First I poured a small bottle of glue into the bowl, added water to thin it out. I used the bag to protect my bowl. The mix should be milk consistency, I believe that worked best for us, too thick they take too long to dry. I still have two drying.

I gathered a pile of yarn and she placed all of in the bowl and soaked it.

 Now she place the yarn on top of the balloon and let dry.

 And here is the finished product, I love them!

For more fun we took the bottom of a plastic Easter egg, added googly eyes and a beak to place in the nest.  Now we have a baby bird.

Also right now we have birds building a nest right outside my dining room window. We are able to see them building all day and they also sit on my rocking chair and sing! Awesome timing for this to happen!

But there could be a problem, over the weekend it was Mr. & Mrs. Cardinal, now yesterday and today Mr. & Mrs. Wren have moved in. Then I saw Mr. Cardinal fly out of the nest this morning. Now we have two bird species trying to claim the nest. Oh Boy! We will just watch and see.   

Thanks for visiting us today,

Lori

Craft found Here.

Letter Nn Week

We began our Letter N week with reading the book 

A Nest Full of Eggs  By: Priscilla Belz Jenkins

This a Stage 1 book and is very detailed about robins and their first year of growth.

After reading the book we made a hand print

bird in a nest craft. All the boys wanted their birds to be blue.

On cardstock I drew a bird nest and painted their hand blue and they pressed on the nest.

Then they added a goggly eye and beak.

Here they began painting the nest.

All of them completed!

These will go into their binders.

They worked on their pre-writing and coloring skills.
Sheet found at Confessions of a Homeschooler

We also read

Silly Little Goose! by: Nancy Tafuri

This books is about a goose in search of the perfect nest!

Oh, I love this book!

They worked on more pre-wrinting/fine motor skills

Sheet found at Pocketful of Posies

Big N little n

I drew the Big N on a sheet of paper and the little n on multi label stickers.

They place the stickers all around the N. Helps identify the difference in the letters 

and works on fine motor skills. The stickers can be tough for some.

NUMBERS

We read the book Chicka Chicka 123

And went on to do a small number craft!

First they colored their N.

I printed numbers from the computer and they glued them on.

We counted them, and even counted to 100!

They practiced more N pre-writing

Newspaper & Craft

I introduced a newspaper to the children today. Some said they have seen their parents reading them.

I told them what could be found inside of a newspaper and what type people reported these stories.

Maybe I went over their heads, maybe not. I do receive positive feedback from their parents, so I must be doing something right. :)

Their craft I found at Pocketful of Posies

I just cut pieces from the news paper and they glued to their Nn

This was suppose to go into their binders, but I sent it home.
The Nn template can be found here

Later they did the Do a Dot sheets for Nn

These Do a Dot sheets are found here

I love watching the tots with the Do a Dots (markers), they dot up everything!

Hunting for the letter Nn

This is their Letter Nn book.

I print a letter book each week to read together and they color in.

And that was our Nn week !
:)