9:30 Gathering –Cut out owl masks
9:40 Circle Time
-song -5 little ducks
-home/school poster
-what day is today on calendar
-Read Aloud – Owl Moon
9:50 Literacy Activity – On/Off Officer from SEEL website
10:05 Math – Play with the big dice, every time a number comes up, count the dots on the dice. If it’s a five, jump up and yell five! If it isn’t a five, it’s the next person’s turn. Also, look at the numbers that are there and add them up to see what they make. Write 5 in the air and then circle fives on a grocery ad. Practice writing and tracing it.
10:20 Break/Snack – oatmeal cookies
10:40 Science/Social Studies – Owls, the basics of an owl. Let kids explore the owl puppets and the owl wing and talon the came in the resource box. Talk about the body parts of an owl and how we have some of the same body parts. On the wall, post a picture of an owl (I had one out of a book that came in the owl resource box) and have the kids pick a word strip and find where that body part could be found on the picture of the owl. Then they had to take their own owl puppet and show where each body part was on the puppet. Some of the body parts discussed were talon, beak, head, back, wing, eyes, tuft (which is their ears), facial disk, crown, breast, etc.
Owl Eye Activity
Most owls hunt at night because that is when the animals they eat for food are active. Owls have better eyesight than humans do when it comes to seeing “in the dark” because their eyes are much bigger than human eyes in proportion to the size of our skulls.
Owls can’t roll their eyes because instead of an eyeball they have an eye sphere. Have the kids keep their heads still and look up, down, and from side to size – they just did something an owl can’t do! Extend this concept by having them put on the masks they made. Now the child can only look straight ahead. To see around them, they must move their head. (Owls can turn their head three-quarters of the way around.) Scatter construction paper mice in a play area. The children-owls then have to gather mice while wearing their goggles, moving their head around to locate their “food.”
Owl Ears and Hearing
Ear tufts are not ears but feathers that help the animal to camouflage, blend in with, its surroundings. An owl’s ears are just openings on the side of its heads. One ear is higher than the other one so the owl can hear sounds from above with one ear and sounds from below with the other. Owls can hear sounds half a mile away.
Have the children sit in a circle with their eyes closed. The instructor holds two metal spoons and taps them together to the side, in front of, and behind a child. Make some taps higher and some near the ground. All of the children, with their eyes still closed, points in the direction of the sound.
As another game, designate one child as the owl and have him sit in the center of a circle, blindfolded or with a hat over his face. One child in the circle pretends to be a mouse sneaking around by standing up and walking around the circle until they return to their original spot and sit down. Without looking, the owl points in the direction of the person
Here is a great website with lots of information about owls for kids. http://www.barnowltrust.org.uk/infopage.html?Id=3
I especially liked that you can hear what an owl sounds like, and there are many other things you could talk about.
11:05 Choosing Time
1. Read owl books, explore the literature
2. Pretend to be owls, play with the owl puppets
3. On/Off Officer
4. Play with the big dice and count the dots
11:25 Clean up, Gather to sing and read until picked up
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