(bright music) - Hello, little learners.

Welcome back to our Pre-K and TK classroom.

We have so many exciting things to learn today.

I'm so glad that you're here.

My name is Miss Lara.

Hello.

Now, do you remember what we're learning about this week?

It starts with our big O and it's a fancy word.

That means an animal that came from an egg.

Oviparous.

That's right.

We're learning about oviparous animals.

And I have one more story to share with you.

But before we do that, let's get Henrietta up here.

Our hen, she always looks so fancy.

Look at her.

She has her beautiful feathers.

Henrietta, did you leave me some eggs today?

Oh, she did.

Let's count how many she left us.

So here they are.

We've been counting all week.

So I've been doing math problems with my eggs too.

So are you ready?

I'm gonna make it even harder.

Here we go.

First is one, then two, and what's another word for something that has two?

A pair.

That's right.

There's three, and four, and one more makes?

Five.

Next comes six.

Now I want you to think about this one.

This is a really hard one.

You really have to use all your brain power.

If I have 10 eggs all together, and six are in the basket, how many more eggs will I need to add to the basket to make 10?

Throw me your guesses, I'm gonna catch them.

I caught one.

Four.

Let's see if that guess was right.

Six, seven, eight, nine, 10.

Four more makes 10.

You're such amazing mathematicians.

Now of course, we have a song that goes along with our oviparous animal study.

And you're gonna need your 10 fingers for this song or poem.

So get them ready.

It goes like this.

Five eggs and five eggs that makes 10, sitting on top is the mother hen.

Crackle.

What do I see?

10 fluffy chicks as yellow as can be.

That's right, here they are.

And we've also been learning some Spanish words.

Now by now you know lots of Spanish words.

Let's review them.

First one is (speaks in Spanish) That means chicks.

And remember these (speaks in Spanish) talk.

They say, "pew."

Did you know different animals make different sounds in different languages?

Isn't that interesting?

We also learned the word for hungry is (speaks in Spanish) and we learned (speaks in Spanish) which means cold.

We also learned (speaks in Spanish) which to try to find or to look for.

And (speaks in Spanish), corn and (speaks in Spanish) means wheat.

And the last word we learned is (speaks in Spanish).

It means coach or jacket.

So let's see if you recognize some of the words as I sing our song in Spanish, goes like this.

(sings in Spanish) You did so well.

I hope that you loved our songs this week.

And of course, next week we'll have whole new, wonderful songs to share.

But right now I'm gonna share some words with you that you're going to need to know in order to understand our story.

And our story today is very official, very scientific.

So these words are a little bit fancier.

You ready?

The first word is fowl.

Special letter F, fowl.

It's another word for a rooster or a hen.

Fowl.

So we might hear the word fowl and you'll know that means rooster or hen.

The next word is breed.

Special letter B for breed.

And it's a group of animals that look or behave in the same way.

So it's like a grouping that you might together like hens or chickens.

They all kinda look or behave the same way.

The last word, super long and fun word.

It's preening.

Special letter P. It's when a chicken uses their beaks to clean their feathers.

They are preening.

So we're gonna learn all about chickens in our story today.

And this one's by Gail Gibbons.

It is called Chicks and Chickens.

So look at those beautiful watercolor pictures in the front.

Now, we might not get through the whole story because it's very dense, that means there's lots of words and things to learn.

We're gonna try to get through most of it.

Wait, you ready to read?

Let's settle in and learn about Chicks and Chickens, our oviparous animal for today.

Here we go.

Let's see, chickens are birds.

Birds sing in different ways.

These are the ways the chicken sing.

They say, "cluck."

And a rooster, remember from our story, the runaway egg?

It says, "cock-a-doodle-doo!"

There it is right when the sun is raising.

Do people sing in different ways?

They do.

Differences between chicks, hen and roosters.

So we've learned a few of those words, a rooster.

Look, look this is what a rooster looks like.

Do you notice it has this red thing on top?

It's called a comb.

And then it has a beak and right here it's head and neck and it's back.

And then it has these huge feathers coming out of its tail.

Those are called it's sickle feathers.

Now take a look at the hen.

Does the hen have those huge feathers?

No.

It has what are called main tail feathers.

And then, it has claws and toes down here and it also has a comb on its head, but a much smaller one.

And then look, here's a baby chick.

Which is just a baby chicken.

It does not have a comb on its head.

Do you see?

But it does have a beak like the other chick.

Chickens evolved from wild jungle fowl in Southeast Asia.

That means they came from fowl birds that lived a long time ago.

People used these fowl in Southeast Asia for food and other things.

Now, do eat chickens today?

Yes.

Some of us do.

Those that do not eat chickens or any kind of meat called vegetarians, but most of us do eat meat.

Today many chickens are raised on farms.

They lay eggs that people eat, others are raised for their meat.

There are about 113 different breeds or groups or kinds of chickens.

113.

I've only ever met one kind of chicken.

I feel like I'm missing out.

I need to go meet the other 112.

There they are on farms.

A few chickens are raised as pets.

Some chickens are even entered into contests.

Look at that chicken one first prize, probably for its beautiful feathers.

Ever been to a chicken contest before?

Me, neither.

Roosters, and here are some of their common breeds.

They're more colorful than hens.

So look, we have lots of different colors.

This is the one I see on farms when I go, but I wanna see this one a Polish rooster.

Look how feathery it looks.

Most breeds are named for the area where they were first developed.

Depending on its breed an adult chicken can weigh anywhere from four pounds to 10 pounds.

Now I want you to think, how much do you weigh?

How much is 10 pounds compared to that?

Chickens are always pecking and scratching at the ground, eating a little at a time.

On small farms some owners let their chickens roam.

That means they don't stay in cages all day, they go out.

These are called free range chickens.

And look, what do chickens eat?

What do you think chickens eat?

In our song we learned that they eat (speaks in Spanish) and (speaks in Spanish) which is wheat and corn.

Here it says, "chicken food is a dry mixture "of corn, grains, meat, fish, vitamins, and minerals."

So that's what they eat.

Chickens do not have teeth.

Do we have teeth?

Yes, but chickens don't.

So how do they eat their food?

Their food travels to a pouch in their throat called a crop.

So there it is that pouch in their throat.

In this stomach, the food mixes with digestive juices and enters the gizzard right there.

That's how chickens digest their food since they don't have teeth.

And remember we learned this word, chickens use their bakes to clean their feathers.

This is called preening.

They also take dust baths to get rid of any insects that are on top of them.

So look, they clean their feathers so they don't take a shower or a bath like we do.

And they take dust baths and they preen.

So if there's a little insect or a fly that's bothering them, they go in the dust and get it off of them.

How do you think your family would feel if you took dust baths instead of showers?

I don't think they would be very happy.

Chickens don't have a good sense of smell or taste.

They do have good hearing.

During the day, they have excellent eyesight.

So there they are, looking around.

During the day it sad, so at night, they must not be able to see very well.

Chickens prefer to be together in small groups called flocks.

The leader pecks at the other chickens to let them know who is the boss.

This chicken is at the head of the pecking order so if you see one chicken that's kinda pecking the others around, that's like the boss chicken.

It's telling the other ones what to do and where to go.

Many farmers raise hints to lay eggs.

Remember that's what we're learning about.

Oviparous animals.

Animals that lay eggs.

Some breeds of hens lay white eggs, others lay brown eggs.

Brown eggs are what I used for a float and sink experiment even though our float experiment did not go as planned.

A few breeds lay green or blue eggs.

I've never seen a green egg.

A hen usually lays no more than one egg a day.

One egg, one day.

Can you imagine it takes four or five eggs to make one cake?

That a lot of work for a hen.

When a rooster meets with the hen, the egg cells inside her make the egg.

Then they lay the egg and that's what the farmers gather for food.

Look, here it is.

There's the eggs in the farm and this book even has a picture of what the egg looks like inside.

If you wanna check it out, you can go into more detail.

And the last page shows how the chicks hatch.

They use their beak or the egg tooth that's called.

And they peck up the egg, peck until out of the egg they come.

And look, there they go with their mother hen.

So in a few weeks, the chicks get bigger but their mothers still protects them.

The chicks have grown feathers.

In a few months, these young chicks will look like their mother or father.

Kind of like, you look like your parents.

So look at the back of this book, there's also instructions on how to gather eggs and what chickens look like when they're gathered for their meat.

And chicken tracks and all kinds of fun chicken facts that we won't get to get into today.

But I hope it gave you just a taste enough that you wanna go and check it out at your local library or on the Sora app.

So I'll put my book down.

Now I want us to think, this whole week we've been learning about oviparous animals and chickens and all kinds of things involving eggs.

Right now we're gonna go to our shared writing space and we're gonna write down some of the things we learned.

So if you wanna join me in the writing activity, I want you to get a marker or a piece of paper, anything you have with me and we'll write together.

Well, let's get up and go to our writing space.

So, first thing that we learned, what is an oviparous animal?

It's an animal that lays eggs.

That's right.

So we're gonna make an egg and draw one right here.

See, I'm gonna draw.

My egg is kinda pointy, there we go.

Now I wanna write the word egg.

So we're gonna write that with our special letter.

I'm gonna sound it out and we're gonna write it all capital so that we can learn to write using our Mat Man, big line, little line, big curve, little curve.

Ready?

Beginning sound, E. That's E that's right.

So here we go.

Big line down, little line and E. Next G. G, that's right.

That's the letter G, there's big curve, little line up.

And because I've been writing a long time, I know that there's another G, egg.

Oviparous animals come from an egg.

They crack and they do what?

They hatch.

That's right.

What are some of oviparous animals?

I know there's a chicken, there's the turtle, a snake.

I'll draw a snake here.

Let's see.

Snake is kind of slithery and curvy.

Let's draw a snake.

Maybe has a little tongue that sticks out like that and an eye.

There's my snake.

How do we write the word snake?

Because that was the most surprising one to me.

I didn't know that they were oviparous.

Special letter S. What comes next?

N. Now what makes this sound?

That's right.

An A.

Snake, K or it could be a C but it's K because I've been writing a long time and I also know there's a hidden E right here.

So we know they come from eggs or a snake.

What else have we learned about oviparous animals?

Let's see, we know that a chicken is oviparous and the hatch from an egg.

So maybe we draw a little chick right here.

Let's see.

So let's draw a little chick right here maybe it's little wings and it's body.

This little tiny, curves there we go.

And a beak.

And there's a chick.

We learned all about that in our last book.

So let's see if we can write the word chick.

So I know that CH makes the, sound.

Ch, I, that's right.

And chick, C. And I know because I've been writing a while that there's a K there.

So there's chick.

Eggs, chick, snakes, we learned so much.

I thought we would finish out the week in our project place doing just one more fun activity.

So join me there.

How many steps that gonna take?

I think six.

Let count.

One, two, three, four, five.

I was one short.

So since we're ending our study of oviparous animals, I thought we would make chicken.

Do you see it?

There it is.

And I use mostly recycled materials.

Now this chicken lays an egg and if it's very careful, something special happens at the end.

So let's make our chicken or hen first and then I'll show you what's gonna happen.

So for this activity, you'll need a paper play, a toilet paper roll, I used a paper bag and any color paper of your choice to make your hen but I'm gonna use yellow, orange and red.

And because I like to make things a little more detailed, I like to use markers to add my feathers for my hen first.

So I take the caps and of course I put them back up because we don't want dry markers and have to have a funeral for our markers.

Not good and then we're gonna make feathers.

We're going up and down like this, just like that.

Up and down, this is gonna add texture to our hen.

All right, here we go.

There, this is what it's looking like, put our caps back on.

But it's so now we're gonna cut out our body, and our head, and our wings.

So to cut out the body, what you're going to do is you're going to take your toilet paper roll and put it down, and then kind of measure where it ends and make a little mark either with a pen or I'm gonna do it directly with my scissors.

I'm gonna say about here.

Then you're gonna cut all the way down.

All the way down like this.

And then you're gonna take a glue sticker.

Anything else that you wanna use in order to just stick it on and glue it down.

Like this.

Glue it down.

There we go.

And we're gonna roll it up.

And then glue down the bottom as well.

Here we go.

And this is gonna be the bottom or the body of our hand.

Do you see how it looks like it has feathers?

Next we're gonna make the head of our hen which is this part right here.

See it?

So in order to make the head, you're gonna take your same paper that you added feathers to and you're gonna cut out kind of the shape of a head.

So it's kind of like a U shape when I look at it and I see it's kind of around, like I'm making a smile.

There it is.

See, this is the shape I cut out.

Then you're gonna actually fold it at the bottom.

Do you see how I folded it down like this?

Because that is the part that you're gonna glue on.

We're gonna glue it on right on top.

Here we go.

Next we're going to make the wings.

So in order to make the wings, I'm gonna cut out kind of two kind of heart looking shapes.

I'll show you what one looks like and then you can cut it however you want.

You can cut bigger wings or smaller wings.

It's kind of what one of them is looking like for me.

Of course you can stack your paper and cut them that way to make it quicker.

And then we're just gonna glue on our wings.

And let's do, I added glue to the wrong side.

Oops!

Mistake.

But do we give up?

Goodness.

No.

When we make a mistake we just keep going and try again.

Here we go.

There's the next wing.

There our hen is taking shape.

Next I think I'm gonna add a beak and I'm gonna use my orange paper for that.

So I'm gonna cut out a little triangle like this and add it on.

There we go.

And maybe I'll add a comb on top with some red paper.

Let's add a comb, which looks like a hand with three fingers.

So if you're cutting it out, just try to cut out a hand with three fingers.

That's kind of what it's looking like, like that.

See?

Add some glue.

Now I know I may be going a little bit fast for you, so feel free to pause it and just take it at your own pace or just get the idea and make it your very own.

This is what it's looking like so far.

I think it needs an eye.

Let's make a quick eye then I'll show you how to make the nest before I move on to this special surprise.

Now, I don't wanna get you too excited but the special surprise does involve sugar.

I know.

We try not to eat so much sugar but when there's a sugar surprise, I get excited too.

Here's what our hands looking like.

Next we're gonna make its nest where it's gonna lay its eggs.

So we're gonna need a paper plate for that and what we're gonna do is we're gonna tear up some paper bags.

It's a great way to use recycled materials.

Isn't it?

So you're gonna tear it up and this is gonna be what the nest is gonna be made of.

And then you can just kind of glue on these pieces to your paper plate.

I'll show you one and then I'll show you the completed project.

And then we'll get to our special surprise.

So you just keep doing that over and over again until your whole plate is covered and it looks like a nest.

Let me show you here.

So this is what it looks like with just two but after a while you get this nice full nest.

Last step is you're gonna wanna cut out a little egg like this one.

And the hen is gonna sit on the egg like this.

And it's gonna keep it so warm and you're gonna come and check on it because, close your eyes.

What's gonna happen is that egg is gonna hatch.

Are you ready?

Close them.

So it's gonna hatch and bring you a delicious chick that you can eat.

Being out of marshmallow, see I told you.

I have all the special magic.

So if you make this hen, put the little egg down and you can get a little special surprise.

I hope that you and enjoy learning all about oviparous animals this week.

We learned so much.

Please remember to stay tuned for Mrs. Reed Wright's art lessons next week and then I'll come back again with more stories to share.

Until then, a big smooch from me to you.

We'll see you next time boys and girls.

Good bye.

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