In short, I am busy: Eggs

• Flannelboards, manipulatives, and storytelling
• Are you oviparous?

• Rhymes, songs, and movement
• Flap little birds (use the tune of "hop little bunnies")
• Here's a little egg

• Vocabulary and Concepts
• Oviparous, amphibian, hatch, nest, tadpole, fledgling
• Learn about creatures that lay eggs
• Cycle of life for birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects

• Toddler Listeners (*Nonfiction)
• Peep and Egg: I'm not hatching by Laura Gehl
• Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchinson
• This little chick by John Lawrence
• That's mine by Michel Van Zeveren
• *What will hatch by Jennifer Ward
• Early bird by Toni Yuly

• Preschool Listeners (*Nonfiction)
• *What will I be by Nicola Davies
• Perfect Nest by Catherine Friend
• Odd egg by Emily Gravett
• *Eggs 123 by Janet Halfmann
• Chickens to the rescue by John Himmelman

• School age stories (*Nonfiction)
• *An egg is quiet by Dianna Aston
• Egg drop by Mini Grey
• Chicken chasing queen of Lamar county by Janice Harrington
• Argus by Michele Knudsen
• An Extraordinary Egg by Leo Lionni
• *Hatch by Roxie Munro
• Foxy and Egg by Alex T. Smith