Parental Activity Plan: Day Three

Date: May 13, 2020

Age: 2 yrs. old

Theme: Birds

Objective(s): Given the right opportunity, children should be able to:

1. Participate in a song by singing.

2. Identify birds by sounds
3. Discriminate between the sounds of birds different from other animals.
4. Express themselves freely
5. Manipulate playdough and feathers or leaves to make a model bird
6. Sort two colours.
7. Identify the colour blue

Resources: Recorder, tape with different bird sounds, Song: ‘Six little Birds’,
playdough ,cardboard, large buttons, leaves, feathers, google eyes
Activities: Circle Time

Name of Activity: Bird Sound Discrimination

Activity:

Step 1. parent will use a recorder or phone to record different bird sounds.
(e.g. chicken, duck, turkey)
Sing the Song:
‘Six little Birds that I once knew
Fat ones, skinny ones, fair ones too
But the one little bird with the feather on his back
He led the others with his chirp, chirp, chirp
chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp
He led the others with his chirp, chirp, chirp

Step 2. Parent will play one sound loud and softly out of the sight of the
child.

Step 3. Parent should ask: “What was that sound you heard?”
Allow your child to answer and make predictions.
Encourage your child to identify the sound of a bird when playing the tape
or recorder. Ask your child to imitate some of the bird sounds heard.

Creative Activity:

Name of Activity: Playdough Birds

Activity:

Step 1. Gather play dough in assorted colors, feathers or painted leaves to

match each color of play dough, googly eyes or buttons, and small
cardboard triangles for the bird beaks.

Step 2. Because the focus of the activity is the color sorting, you can make
the little turkey bodies for this activity and set everything out like the
picture below. Please note for younger toddlers you might introduce one
color bird and the matching feathers at a time and discuss the colors as
your child adds the feathers. Then over a couple of days introduce the
other colors, building up to having multiple colors.

Step 3. Allow your child to sort feathers or leaves to match the play dough.
As your child pokes the feathers into the play dough he or she is
strengthening his or her little fine motor muscles that are so important
for writing later on.
Indoor/Outdoor Play

Name of Activity: Penguin Wobble

Activity:

Step 1. Show your child a video of a penguin moving. Let your child know
that we are going to wobble or move like the penguin

Step 2. Give your child a large ball and ask him or her to put it between the
knees and walk [or wobble like a penguin!]

Step 3. Allow your child to move to different distances. Always praise your
child.

Story Time:

Name of Activity: The Bird and the Bee

Activity: Visit the YouTube link and allow your child to listen to the story. You
can ask simple questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4gKf66GW5M

Follow-Up: Allow your child to listen to sounds in the environment and tell when
it is a bird sound.