Did you see frost on the ground this morning, those tiny white ice crystals all over the grass? I wonder if that is the last time that will happen this spring? It is getting close. Luckily our tomato plant spent the night in my laundry room. I really wish that we were eating another salad together today. My little boy has been eating our basil plants by putting the leaves on tomato sandwiches. Have you cooked anything this week?
Do you want to make something with a funny name. Let’s make a Dutch Baby. Do you like to eat pancakes? This is one big puffy pancake cooked in the oven and then covered in fruit and dusted with confectioners sugar. Could you measure out the ingredients with your mom or dad?
https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a26789762/dutch-baby-pancake-recipe/
Are you ready for a story?
I’m still thinking about baby chicks around here, and I think I’m going to get six. I’ll show you when they arrive. They come in a warm box with a nest inside, and the chicks are one day old.
Let’s look at how an egg becomes a chicken. If we were in our classroom we would start off by cracking an egg and taking a close look inside. Sometimes I bring eggs from home some years and I have also ordered fertile hatching eggs online. After we take a look at our egg we put the rest in our incubator and wait. Twenty one days is a very long time in the Honeybee class.
Here’s a story about five hungry chicks.
Did you make some baby chicks last week using a fork to make the fluffy, fuzzy chick?
Let’s make more chick art.
Egg cartons and paint have endless possibilities.
If you have some paper plates, you can create a little flock.
Each year when we are talking about chickens I read Rosie’s Walk and Rosie’s Chick by Pat Hutchins. This would be a great story to print out pictures, make popsicle stick puppets, and play out the story in your puppet theatre.
Here is a template for printing out the setting and the characters in Rosie’s Walk.
http://www.makinglearningfun.com/themepages/RosiesWalk-FeltBoard.html
I’ll see you here on Monday Honeybees. Put your hands in the air and we’ll say it together. Wherever you are, we wish you well.
