In short, I am busy: Chickens

 

Flannelboards, manipulatives, and storytelling

• Little red hen by Rebecca Emberley (Flannelboard)
• Are you oviparous?

Rhymes, songs, and movement

• Here's a little egg

Vocabulary and concepts

• Chicken life cycle, promote chick hatching

Toddler listeners (*nonfiction)

• Little chicken's big day by Katie Davis
• This little chicken by John Lawrence

Preschool listeners (*nonfiction)

• Catch that chicken by Atinuke
• Chickens to the rescue by John Himmelman

School-age stories (*nonfiction)

• Fox and the hen by Eric Battut
• I got a chicken for my birthday by Laura Gehl
• Chicken big by Keith Graves
• Tyrannosaurus rex vs. Edna the very first chicken by Douglas Rees