(bright music) - Hello little learners, happy Wednesday.

Welcome back to our Pre-K and TK classroom.

My name is Miss Lara, hello.

I hope that you're having the best and most wonderful day.

We are going to be learning all about oviparous animals this week.

Do you remember what oviparous means?

Oviparous means that the animal lays and comes from an egg.

Now, are humans oviparous animals?

Can you investigate and let me know?

Now, the very first thing we're gonna to start off with is a song about an oviparous animal, a chick.

And to do our song we need our 10 fingers.

So, I want you to get your 10 fingers out.

Are you ready?

Okay, here they are.

And the song or poem goes like this.

Five eggs and five eggs.

That makes 10.

Does it?

let's count to find out.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.

It does on my hands.

Sitting on top is the mother hen.

Crackle, crackle, crackle, crackle.

What do I see?

10 fluffy chicks as yellow as can be.

Oh, look at that.

Our little fluffy chicks.

And then we are also learning some Spanish words, because learning another language is a lot of fun, isn't it?

So, I speak Spanish and I wanna share that language with you.

We learned that (speaking foreign language) means chicks.

We learned that (speaking foreign language) means hungry, (speaking foreign language) means cold, (speaking foreign language) means coat.

So, today we're gonna learn two new words before singing our song in Spanish.

So, the first new word is (speaking foreign language).

Can you say that word?

(speaking foreign language) (speaking foreign language) is another word for corn.

And guess what loves to eat corn.

Chicks, that's right.

The next word is (speaking foreign language).

Can you say that with me?

(speaking foreign language) That means wheat and they also love to eat wheat.

So, in the song, there's a mother hen getting them corn and wheat and you may see me making this sign.

So, you remember what it means.

Are you ready to sing our song in Spanish?

Okay, here we go.

(singing in foreign language) Oh, you're so good at singing.

I think my hen, Henrietta proves, what do you think Henrietta?

Ooh, I think she likes your song.

Hey, so learning words is so important to being able to understand what's in books.

So, we always introduce a few words before going to our story.

So, let's see what words we have today behind our door.

Ooh, we have three words.

The first word is regularly.

See, special letter R regularly.

That means when you repeat something or do it all the time.

Is there something that you do regularly, maybe brush your teeth or take a shower or maybe eat candy?

No, don't do that regularly, right?

So, regularly is going to be in our story.

The next word is special letter N and it's a feeling word.

You might have heard this word before, it's nervous.

Can you clap that word for me?

Nervous, two syllables.

And it's having feelings of worry or fear.

Sometimes you get nervous when new things are about to happen or you're not sure how something is gonna turn out.

So, you might start feeling butterflies in your stomach and get hot.

Whew, you might need to take your belly breaths to calm down, that's nervous.

I think a character in our story is going to feel nervous.

Our last word is not in our story, but this story is all about this word.

And it's special letter P for patients.

Can we clap out that word together?

Get your clappers out.

Patience, two syllables, that's right.

It's another feeling word and it's when you accept and you wait, because you know something is gonna take a little longer.

Oh, I need a lot of patience when I wait for something to come in the mail.

I have to wait and wait, but I know it's coming.

So, that's having patience.

So, I want you to think of those three words as we read our story.

Are you ready to see what it is?

I'm so excited about this one because it is so colorful and it is all about an oviparous animal, a chicken.

And it's called "P. Zonca Lays an Egg".

And look at the front cover.

You see those beautiful colorful designs and I'll tell you before we start reading that this book is based on eggs that are decorated in Ukraine.

And we'll learn a little bit about that when we go to our project place.

It is by Julie Paschkis.

Right there, she's the author.

She wrote all the words in the story.

And since there's no illustrator listed, I think she drew the pictures too.

That means she was the artist.

So, let's read this story together.

Look at all those lines.

We're gonna need to learn about those lines a little later.

And this has a dedication page.

It says for Jan and Greg.

A dedication means that's who the story is for.

Maud laid one egg every day.

So, there's Maud look at her and there is her egg and she laid one every single day.

Dora laid an egg every other day.

So, she didn't lay them as often as Maud, but she still laid them pretty regularly.

Remember our word?

Nadine always laid exactly five eggs a week.

And look at Nadine.

She has her beak up.

I think she's feeling very proud that she lays one, two, three, four, five eggs.

(narrator muffles) Gloria never laid an egg because he turned out to be a rooster.

Look at it.

Does that chicken or rooster look different from the ones we saw on the previous page?

Look at its bright colorful feathers and it has this at the bottom, hmm.

It was his job to crow and he did it well.

Now, looking at the page, do you think there are any clues here about when he's supposed to crow?

Do you think he's supposed to crow at night or when the sun is rising?

Yeah, I think it's when the sun is rising too.

Ooh, that can be kind of annoying if you're trying to sleep in.

That rooster will be your alarm clock.

All the other chickens laid eggs regularly.

Remember, that means they did in a pattern or they did it all the time.

So, there they are laying their eggs.

All of them, except P. Zonka.

That's her right there.

She did not lay eggs regularly.

"Why doesn't she lay eggs regularly?"

Hmm, Maud wanted to know.

"Why, why doesn't P. Zonka lay the eggs regularly?"

And then her other friend said, "because she wonders around the farm yard "day in and day out staring at flowers and gawking at the clouds."

That's Nadine talking.

"Oh, tut-tut-tut-tut-tut-tut-tut," clucked Dora, "she's just a dreamer."

So, there she is saying, "she's just a dreamer."

What does that mean when you just dream?

Do you think she means that in a kind way or a mean way?

Hmm, right here's Gloria and remember Gloria has a special job.

He, "cock-a-doodle-doo," that's all he said.

P. Zonka paid no attention to them.

She looked down at the shiny green grass and gazed up at the deep blue sky.

So, there she is looking at the grass and there's a little worm, insects, butterflies and the blue sky.

"I'm quite good at laying eggs," Nadine said to P. Zonka one day.

"You never even give it a try."

"Look around Nadine," said P. Zonka, "look at those big red tulips and the little pink cherry blossoms."

There's the tulips and the cherry blossoms.

Day after day Nadine, Dora and Maud and all the other hens filled baskets of eggs and baskets and baskets and baskets.

P. Zonka didn't lay a single egg.

What's the number that means none?

That's right, zero and that's how many eggs P. Zonka laid.

"Why?"

Asked Maud, "Please tell us why?"

Said Dora.

"Why indeed?"

Clacked Nadine.

So, all the other hens wanted to know why P. Zonka is laying zero eggs.

And of course Gloria, we know what she says.

Can you say it with me?

"Cock-a-doodle-doo."

"I will tell you why," said P. Zonka.

"Because of the pale mornings, "the soft dark moss, "the stripes on the things around us, "the orange cat with one blue eye, "the shining center of a dandelion, "the sky at midnight."

Look at that.

"I don't get it," said Maud.

"P. Zonka is just plain lazy," said Nadine.

There she is.

And look, if you can look closely, they're making very angry faces.

"Come on P. Zonka," urged Dora, "you might like laying an egg."

Of course Gloria says.

What does she say or he say?

"Cock-a-doodle-doo."

"Can't you at least try?"

What do you think?

Do you think P. Zonka is gonna try to lay an egg?

There she is.

It looks like she's listening to them, let's see.

P. Zonka thought for a moment, hmm.

She climbed slowly onto an empty nest and Maud let out a nervous cackle, "ah, she'll never be able to do it."

"Oh my," said Dora.

So, there goes P. Zonka.

They were encouraging her to lay an egg and now they're saying she's never gonna get it done.

She clucked softly to herself and sat down.

Fluter, flutter, cluck, cluck, nothing happened.

P. Zonka did it all over again.

Fluter, fluter, cluck, cluck.

Push aaaargh, boop, at last.

P. Zonka stood up and looked at her egg.

What do you think her egg looked like?

Do you think it was any of these three?

It wasn't a white egg, it wasn't a brown egg or even a gray-blue egg.

It was spectacular.

There were patterns of sun yellow, grass green, tulip red.

There were blues as bright as day and blues as dark as midnight.

What do you think?

Look, there's even a sun.

Do you see the sun and stars and butterflies?

"My goodness," cried Maud.

"My stars," marveled Dora.

"But it's a little too much?"

asked Nadine.

Oh and Gloria of course said, "cock-a-doodle-doo."

"This egg is beautiful," finally they all agreed.

After that, P. Zonka went back to wandering around the farm yard.

She looked down and she gazed up.

She clucked and wandered all the colors she saw.

She didn't lay very many eggs.

But the ones she laid were worth the wait.

The end.

Now, I'm gonna bring this story with me to the project place because we're gonna make our very own P. Zonka egg together.

Right now, we're gonna move on to our foundational skill.

So, we're gonna see and talk about feelings.

Now, emotional literacy is so important.

That's when you're able to recognize the facial expressions that people give.

Where I am, we've been having to wear masks, so we haven't been able to see people's expressions and people are just starting to take them off.

So, I thought it would be good to review.

In the story, P. Zonka went through lots of different emotions, didn't she?

Let's review some of them.

I want you to think.

Turn your thinkers way up.

When P. Zonka was first trying to lay an egg, how do you think she felt?

She was trying and trying and it wasn't happening, hmm.

How would you feel if you were working hard at something and it wasn't working with you?

Do you think that you would be surprised or do you think you would be frustrated?

Yeah, I think I would be frustrated too.

I'm gonna take my frustrated feeling right here and I'm gonna show you and make that face.

Look at the little boy.

He has his hands right up to his face in frustration.

He's thinking, why is this not working?

Like P. Zonka might have felt when she was on an empty nest.

Now, I want you to think.

When the other hens were pressuring P. Zonka to lay an egg, they were calling her things like lazy and telling her she's never gonna do it.

How do you think she was feeling then?

Do you think that she was feeling silly?

Or do you think that P. Zonka was feeling sad?

Now, think about, hmm.

How would you feel if someone was telling you, hurry up, go do something and you weren't ready to do you it and they were saying, you just don't wanna do it?

You're being lazy.

Like in the book.

Yeah, that would make me sad too.

I'm gonna take my sad egg here on my nest.

I'm gonna pull it out so we can really see the face.

See this little boy has his face in his hands and his eyes are downturned and his smile is upside down, isn't it?

He is very sad.

Let's do one more before moving on to the project place.

Hmm, when P. Zonka was finally able to lay an egg and everyone called her eggs spectacular because it had so many colors, how do you think she felt then?

Do you think that she was surprised?

Do you think maybe she was feeling silly or happy?

Oh, maybe she was feeling all of those things, you're right.

Maybe silly because her egg was not like everyone else's and happy because it was so spectacular and surprised because maybe she wasn't expecting it.

Oh, I want you to go and practice your feeling words and thinking about how your body feels as you go throughout the day.

That's so important to becoming a strong reader is being able to recognize how characters in a story are feeling.

Right now we're gonna move over to our project place and I'm gonna take my book with me, because we're gonna make a very special kind of egg together.

So, let's walk over.

So, here we go.

For this project or activity, you're going to need black paper and some oil pastels and you can make it even more fun by making a little dice and it's gonna have, or die.

And it's gonna have different patterns on each side and I'll show you what we're gonna do with it here in a minute.

But I wanted to bring the text to you because at the back of our story, it talks about Ukrainian decorated eggs and they're actually made with patterns of beeswax and layers of dye.

They're called pysanky, pysanky eggs.

I'm hope I'm saying that right.

If you are Ukrainian, can you please let me know?

I actually got to see some on the internet.

Maybe you can check some out too and they're just beautiful.

So, I made my own version using oil pastels and this is what it looks like.

Do you see all the patterns?

I use black paper because I thought it would really stand out.

So, the very first thing that we're going to do is we're gonna take a white oil pastel and we're going to make an egg shape.

Now, we've been making a couple of egg shapes all week and remember, it's kind of heavier at the bottom and (indistinct) like an oval and it's not really a point, it's like a rounded point.

Does your egg have to be perfect?

Goodness no, this is what mine looks like, right?

And then to make this really fun, I thought we would roll some dice and then whatever we land on is the shape that we have to make on our egg.

Hey, are you ready?

Let's roll the first one.

Ooh, X.

So, let me pick a color.

I'm gonna pick this bright or orange color and we're gonna make Xs on our egg.

Now, it's actually interesting.

Some of these eggs go for a lot of money, thousands and thousands of dollars and they're actually decorated on wax, not paper.

Isn't that interesting?

So, this is what it's looking like so far.

All right, let's roll it again.

Let's see what line we're gonna come up with, oop.

Curves, yay, I love curves.

So, now I'm gonna take my purple and I'm just gonna create some swirly lines, some swirly curly lines.

Maybe I'll take another color.

Maybe my bright pink.

You see what it's looking like?

And then maybe I'll do some swirls like this.

They look like little hurricanes or tornadoes on paper, don't they?

Okay and you just make the line across.

If I was doing this in the classroom, I might have a dice like this, a pair of dice and let students come up and do it.

Or I might just project some images of patterns to give them some inspiration that they can pick from, all right.

Next, let's see.

Ooh, zig zags like shark teeth.

I'm gonna use blue.

What color are you gonna use?

Well, they almost look like waves too, don't they?

I'm gonna make a line in between and then I'm gonna make some more.

Let's see, shark teeth or zigzag lines.

Here it goes, all right.

We still have a few more to go, let's see.

Ooh, some more swirly lines, yay.

Okay, this time I'm going to use, what's your favorite color?

Hurry, tell me, green?

Okay, I can use some green.

I'm gonna use some really curvy lines like this and you can express however you'd like.

Do some curves and then maybe come back in and fill 'em in.

Just like I'm doing.

Do you see?

Look like waves.

And if we have time, I'll show you how you can fill it in, so it looks kind of like mine, all right?

Still have a bit more to go.

more Xs, okay.

I'm gonna use purple.

Was that one of your favorite colors?

Now, do you know what two colors make purple?

Mm, is it red and yellow?

Is it red and blue?

I think it might be red and blue.

Will you experiment and let me know?

We have two more rows to go.

That means two more of these.

Xs, oh yay.

We get to do it in a different color.

Maybe I'll do a bright, let's see, pink?

X, maybe I'll do Xs like this, like a cross hatch where I draw lines and then I go back and draw them on top like this, woo hoo.

This is what it's looking like.

Oh, it's beautiful, it's spectacular, it's wonderful, I love it.

One more, zig zag, all right.

Let me pick my last color, a bright yellow and do my last zig zag.

So, you can see this is what it's looking like.

Well, you'll notice on the one I did, it looks a little more filled in.

So, what I thought we would do is now you get to kind of fill in your patterns with different dots.

So, I'm gonna show you how to do that really quickly.

So, I'm gonna take my bright pink and I'm just gonna add dots anywhere I see black space or what's called negative space all the way around.

Now, of course, if you wanna learn more about art, check out Mrs Readwright.

She does this classes too on this channel and she talks all about art.

So, maybe I'll take a different color here and maybe I'll make some lines right here in between my swirls.

The idea is that you just wanna fill in wherever there's just empty space.

So, it can look really really full and spectacular like in our story.

Okay, here we go.

I'll do a few more and then we'll look and see what our final product looks like.

Oh, maybe I'll do some more dots over here.

What is yours looking like?

Is it colorful?

Or is it blue and just plain brown?

Plain is okay too.

But we're just making these colorful as can be.

Maybe a last one.

I'll do some pink over here.

Maybe I'll make some stars in between all my Xs.

That would be nice.

You can see right here.

I'm just gonna add a few more.

Let's add three more.

One, two, three, all right and four and five.

I can't help myself.

And this is what my egg is looking like.

Does it look like P. Zonka's egg?

Well, I hope that you try this activity at home and then put it up on your wall to remind yourself to be spectacular and colorful every single day of the week.

Come back tomorrow where we're gonna do an experiment with eggs and make a boat for an egg that wants to float.

All right, until then a big smooch to you.

Mwaah, goodbye.

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