Social & Emotional Development/Cooperation develops increasing abilities to give and take in interactions to take turns in playing games or using materials and to interact without being overly submissive or directive. Can they guess which one is hidden? Go around your circle letting each child have a turn and play until the children get tired or can easily name the missing animal. While they are counting, cover one of the animals with the egg shape. Tell the children to close their eyes and count to five. Lay the animals where the children can see them. After Reading the StoryĬut out the animals that come from eggs and cut a piece of construction paper into an oval.

AND Approaches to Learning/Reasoning & Problem Solving develops increasing ability to find more than one solution to a question, task, or problem. Literacy/Book Knowledge & Appreciation predicts what will happen next in a story. Reading the StoryĪfter reading the page about what the bunny thought might be in the egg, ask the children what they think is inside? After reading the part where the bunny threw a little rock, ask the children if throwing a rock at it was a good idea? What could the bunny have done besides throwing a rock? Show the children several pictures of other animals that come from eggs like alligators, turtles, snakes, birds, and spiders, frogs.Īpproaches to Learning/Reasoning & Problem Solving develops increasing abilities to classify, compare, and contrast objects, events, and experiences. Tell the children that birds like chickens and cardinals/bird in your area come out of eggs. If they still do not guess, have a child pull it out of the bag. Have a child put their hand in the bag and feel the egg. Shake the bag can anyone guess what it is? Give the children clues and see if they can guess (it comes in many colors and sometimes is even speckled, we can eat it, it’s shaped like an oval, it comes from a reptile or a bird).

Tell the children that you brought something in your bag but it is a mystery. Put a hard boiled egg inside of a small bag.

Several plastic cups, a piece of string and small sponge for each, a bowl of water.

Pre-made egg shapes 1-10 and many paperclips.

Tape them closed so the children can not open them.

Fill them with rice, penny, paperclip, etc. Enough plastic eggs for everyone in the class to hold one.Pictures of 5 animals that come from eggs.Helping Your Child to become Creative so that they can help change the world.īook Play Everyday Teaching Preschoolers Through the Love of BooksĪ little bunny finds an egg, what could be inside? How will he find out? This is a classic first mystery story for children.Helping Your Preschooler Prepare for Reading.Multiple Intelligence and Children’s Learning.The Value of Play Dough in Early Childhood.The Importance of Teaching Classroom Rules.

The golden egg by margaret wise brown