Look Who's Hatching

What's in the Egg?

S.02 Exploration and Investigation:

Makes observations, asks questions, SE.03 Cooperation and Prosocial
predicts, draws conclusions. Behavior: Follows basic rules and
routines for play and group
participation.

AL.02 Application of
Knowledge to New
Situation: Recalls and
reflects on experiences
and information, and
interprets or draws
concludes based on the
information.

LL.04 Reading-related Activities:

Utilizes books as a source of
information.
 Bubble Nests and SE.02-Manages emotions with
increasing independence (following
Hop Like a Frog directions)
SE.03-Foundational skills to support
S.01-Scientific Knowledge cooperation and prosocial behavior
(compare and contrast, (taking turns)
cause and effect)

M.03-Patterns and
Measurement

LL.01-Continual growth in HP.02-Gross Motor skills

understanding increasingly complex (hopping and jumping)
and varied vocabulary
 Making Reptile Eggs
and Paper Chain Snake
CA.02-Uses materials to build and
S.01-Provides simple verbal create a three-dimensional
or signed descriptions of structure to represent another
observed phenomenon. item.

AL.02-Asks what would

happen if materials were
added or taken away
during exploration.

LL.02-Uses language to share

ideas and gain information. HP.01-Uses coordinated movements to
complete complex tesks.
 Where are the Birds? ManagesSE.02-Self Control:
transitions and adapts to

and Whose Beak? changes in schedules and routines. (Guest

speaker)

S.01-Scientific Knowledge SE.03: Cooperation and Prosocial

(compare and contrast birds, Behavior: Follows basic rules and routines
uses scientific content words for play and group participation
like beak, wing, talon)

AL.02: Sensory Exploration,

Reasoning, and Problem
Solving: Uses objects to
represent real items in pretend
play (cardboard binoculars)

Makes comparisons among

objects that are observed
(different birds)

HP.03: Health and Safety Practices:

LL.01-Continual growth in understanding Actively participates in indoor/outdoor
increasingly complex and varied physically active play, which enhances
vocabulary health and well-being (searching for
bird pictures).
Butterfly Garden
 Sorting Through the Stages

S.01-Scientific Knowledge: SE.04-Social

Describes or represents a series of Relationships: Shares by
events in sequence. taking turns.

M.04-Data Analysis: Sorting

objects by size or shape.

HP.01-Fine Motor; Handles small

objects.
 Feed the Very Hungry Caterpillars
and Growing Caterpillars
S.02-Scientific Skills and Methods:
Make observations, predicts, draw
conclusions, tries things out to see
what happens.

AL.01-Children begin to
follow directions and
demostrate.

M.01-Number and Operations:

Children begin to coordinate
verbal counting with objects.

HP.01-Fine Motor: Children begin

to demonstrate hand-eye
coordination.
Coffee Filter Butterfly
CA.02-Visual Art: Shows pride in
ability to use art materials and
enjoys showing completed art to
others.

SE.01-Self Concept:
Begins to develop
independence,
confidence, and
competence.

AL.01-Initiative and
Curiosity: Follows directions
and demonstrates
independence.

HP.01-Fine Motor: Pulls caps off

markers and puts them back on
firmly.
 Butterfly Symmetry
CA.02-Visual Arts

SE.04-Shares by taking
turns with materials.

M.02-Develops
understanding of geometry
and spatial sense.

LL.01-Listening and Understanding: HP.01-Children begin to

follows single, multi-step, and coordinate the use of arms,
complex directions hands, and fingers to
accomplish more complex
tasks.