Which bird on the farm lays eggs? Did you know that a chicken lays one egg a day, single-yolk or double-yolk? Let’s introduce this bird’s family. The dad is the rooster; the mom is the hen; the baby is the chick. Did you know about fertilized eggs that will become a chick and require a rooster? And the unfertilized egg, you can mainly find in the store, are good for cooking and do not need a rooster? Here is a short video about the chicken family. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYKJkHcaMzE

Science

For this “rooster crest” fun Experiment, you need (1) a small clear bottle, (2) a plastic glove, (3) a rubber band or string, (4) baking soda, and vinegar.

Let’s put about 1 tbsp to 2 of baking soda in the glove and about 1/3 cup of vinegar in the bottle. Cover the neck of the bottle with the Rubber band fastened glove and lift the glove so that the baking soda falls in the vinegar. What happens? You can experiment with the amounts of baking soda and vinegar too!

If your child has a journal, ask to make a drawing that you can date and label.

Language Arts

Chicken Little by Laura Rader is one of my favorite story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpQ0R6NVHFU
After viewing the book, ask your child to cut up the character pictures below and retell the story with them. https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/chicken-little-characters/chicken-little-characters

Fingerplay: “5 Little Chicks”

5 little chicks went walking one day (hold up 5 fingers)

Into the barn and around the hay. (Make fingers walk)

Mother Hen said, “Cluck, cluck, cluck, clack!”

And 4 little chicks came wondering back.

4 little chicks….

3 little chicks….

2 little chicks….

1 little chicks went walking one day

Into the barn and around the hay.

Mother hen said, “Cluck, cluck, cluck, clack!”

And 5 little chicks came wandering back.

Song: “I’m a “Little Chick” (Tune of “I’m a Little Teapot”)

I’m a little chick, yellow and soft.

I was born in a hayloft.

I play all day and I cheep, cheep, cheep.

Then back to the barn where I sleep, sleep, sleep.

Art

There are many projects:

Nesting Hen Project https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/mother-hen-craft/nesting-hen

Sponge Paint Chick Project https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/chicks-craft/sponge-paint-chicks

Spring Chick Project https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/chick-craft/spring-chick
Song: “The Sky is Falling” https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/song-card/the-sky-is-falling

Math

Help your child to continue his/her April calendar pattern (print-outs in Reptiles Week 3)

If you have lots of colored eggs, help your child to count them and to sort them in paper cartons. You can also write a number on the outside of the plastic egg and fill it with the corresponding number of pom-poms, pebbles, noodles, beans, etc.

I added a musical element to it!

I put various elements in the eggs and sealed them. They are maracas with different sounds!

Small Motor Skills

Here is a tracing worksheet https://twistynoodle.com/trace-the-dotted-line-from-the-chicken-to-the-barn-coloring-page/

Here is a maze worksheet https://twistynoodle.com/help-the-chicken-find-the-barn-coloring-page/

Here is a Hen Book https://twistynoodle.com/hen-minibook/

Gross Motor Skills

The Chicken Family Song:

Down in the barnyard, early in the morning,

See the chicken family all in a row. (walk around flapping your arms)

See the mommy chicken, she is called the hen.

Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck and off she goes.

Down in the barnyard, early in the morning,

See the chicken family, all in a row.

See the daddy chicken, he is called the rooster.

Cock-a-doodle-do and off he goes.

Down by the barnyard, early in the morning,

See the chicken family all in a row.

See the baby chickens, they are called chicks.

Peep, peep, peep, peep and off they go!