Oviparous

Today we learned about oviparous animals.  An animal is oviparous if it hatches from an egg.  Our first read aloud today was titled Hatch.  This book gave us a riddle and we had to decide which oviparous animal solved the riddle.  To check if we solved the riddle correctly we had to lift a flap.   During one of our centers today the children drew an oviparous animal.  They then cut out an egg that it could hatch out of.

The second story we read was titled Little Lumpty.  This story is a spin off for our new nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty.  In the town of Dumpty stands the high wall from which Humpty Dumpty fell long, long ago. Every day Little Lumpty passes the wall and dreams of climbing to the top. His mother warns him not to, but, at last, Little Lumpty cannot resist. He gets a ladder and climbs to the top of the wall. How wonderful he feels, if only his friends could see him. And then he makes his big mistake: he looks down! He starts to shake and tremble, he cannot move from where he is sitting. "Help! Help!" he screams, fearing that he will end up scrambled like Humpty Dumpty. The townsfolk run to save him.  At this point in the story I stopped reading the book.  We then broke off into centers.  During center time the children made a brick wall and cut out their own Little Lumpty.  They then used their imagination to decide how Lumpty could get down from the wall.  Once they had their idea they used a marker to add details to their picture showing how Lumpty would get down.  Some children thought he would jump into some pillows, one child said he would use a scissors lift to get down, and another child said he would slide down into a pool.  When I finished reading the story at closing circle the children learned that the real Little Lumpty is saved when the townsfolk hold out a blanklet for him to jump on.