Showing posts with label birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birds. Show all posts

Jan 10, 2019

Bird Preschool Theme and the Felt Board



Here's a trick...instead of recreating an entire new set of felts to match your Preschool theme or interest, look at your collection, and find the stories (or songs) with the interest inside. For example, if the theme is birds, indeed there are specific stories surrounding the bird as the main character such as...






But, there are also many songs and stories with bird characters inside. So, choose stories or songs, and emphasize the bird to match the current interest. For example, with the following felt pieces below, the Educator can ask  open ended questions to provoke concepts and learning, such as, "Which animals have wings? Which animal has feathers?"




The following images are felt pieces in my collection, along with links to blog entries providing more information:


Green Grass Grew All Around

Down By the Bay

Ten Little Yellow Ducks

Brown Bear, Brown Bear

Five Little Ducks



Five Little Penguins



Further Reading Suggestion: 

Ideas for a Preschool Bird Theme


Jun 28, 2013

Seagull Felts with Felt Board Poem

Inspiration comes in many variations. We have recently moved to an apartment near the ocean. The building across from us has a rooftop made with cement and gravel, and baby seagulls hatched a few weeks ago. We have been watching the seagulls through binoculars. It is very interesting to see how speckled they are. The mother seagull calls out to the father seagull, or the other way round, with the loud, "caw, caw, caw, caw" throughout the day.

So I thought it would be fun to try and make a seagull felt and make a poem...



 

A Seagull Poem for the Felt Board

Five seagulls standing(sitting) on the sand
Into the sky, one bird soar
And now there are only four
Four seagulls standing on the sand
One flew to a nearby tree
And now there are only three
Three seagulls standing on the sand
One flew to the sky so blue
And now there are only two
Two seagulls standing on the sand
One left to go find some fun
And now there is only one
One seagull standing on the sand
Flew towards the sun
And now there are none



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