Description
Egg to chick science for hatching season: Chirpy the Chick grows inside a warm egg, pecks out of the shell after about 21 days and grows into a hen. This chicken life cycle unit for preschool, pre-K and kindergarten, ages 3 to 6, includes farm worksheets for sequencing, counting eggs and an Inside the Egg cut and paste.
Great for a spring, farm or Easter week at home, in the classroom or at daycare, with a 5 day lesson plan, a wall poster that grows one stage a day and a Life Cycle Wheel craft that keep your chick unit planned and save you prep time.
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This unit is part of the Life Cycles Mega Bundle, 12 science units for the whole year. Get the bundle and save big: CLICK HERE
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WHAT'S INCLUDED
► You will get 60+ pages, including: ⤵
▴ Preschool & Pre-K and kindergarten black and white worksheets: ⤵
→ Chicken Life Cycle, cut and paste (4 stages)
→ Chicken Life Cycle, cut and paste (3 stages)
→ Trace the Word
→ Trace the Words
→ Color and Label
→ What Comes Next?
→ Parts of a Chicken
→ Count the Eggs
→ Help the Hen
→ Small to Big
→ Draw the Life Cycle
→ Inside the Egg, cut and paste
→ My Chicken, draw and write
▴ Teacher Guide with a 5 day lesson plan and assessment pages
▴ Chirpy the Chick, a read-aloud story in color
▴ Wall life cycle poster to build with the class
▴ Mini poster, flash cards and a chant with motions
▴ My Chicken Life Cycle Book (emergent reader)
▴ Pattern coloring pages
▴ Life Cycle Wheel craft with a finished example and templates, plus a color teacher wheel to laminate
▴ Headband and certificate with a handprint chicken
► Pages in US Letter size (8.5 x 11 inches). For A4 paper, choose Fit to Page when printing.
WHY TEACHERS LOVE IT
The story follows real hatching science: the hen keeps her eggs warm and turns them, the embryo grows inside and feeds on the yolk, after about 21 days the chick breaks the shell with its egg tooth, and in a few hours the wet chick dries and turns fluffy.
A 3 stage cut and paste lets younger children join the same lesson with a smaller step.
Bold lines, large pictures and short directions make every page easy to read, including for children who use visual supports.
✥ PERFECT FOR
◆ Homeschool farm science
◆ Preschool, Pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms
◆ Daycare and childcare programs
◆ Science and learning centers
◆ Spring, farm and Easter theme weeks
◆ Small groups
◆ Independent practice
◆ Early finishers
★ SKILLS PRACTICED
◆ Sequencing the 4 stages of the chicken life cycle
◆ Science vocabulary: embryo, yolk, egg tooth, hatch, hen
◆ Exploring what grows inside an egg
◆ Counting eggs and matching numerals
◆ Predicting what comes next and ordering by size
◆ Cutting, gluing, tracing and coloring for fine motor strength
◆ Oral language through the chant and the Life Cycle Wheel
✥ SAVE BIG WITH THE MEGA BUNDLE
Teach a new life cycle every season with all 12 units in one download: pumpkin, apple, turkey, penguin, robin, plant, butterfly, frog, chicken, ladybug, bee and sea turtle. CLICK HERE to see everything inside the Life Cycles Mega Bundle and save big.
TERMS
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