The Green Parent

By The Green Parent

26th March 2021

This week to celebrate Ostara, we've been studying oology in our project based learning. Studying of eggs, not collecting! Did you know that egg makes a good glue substitute or that you can fashion a plaster from egg membrane?

The Green Parent

By The Green Parent

26th March 2021

The Green Parent

By The Green Parent

26th March 2021

​RESOURCES

We baked these refined sugar-free Easter nests using Rude Health spelt flakes and date syrup - they were amusingly crumbly but still tasty! Thanks to The Gingerbread mum for recipe.

We loved the free bird posters and cute little pop-up egg card downloads at Adventure in a Box.

We found loads of great ideas on the Trillium Montessori site including a link to free nest printables from Living Montessori now.

We’ve had a lot of fun practicing counting this week with the downloadable pack from Life Abundantly - this has printable nest and coloured eggs numbered from 1 to 30.

We raided the board games shelf and borrowed some of the gorgeous coloured eggs from Wingspan to practice sorting (into an egg box). I really recommend this game for older children - it’s a firm family favourite for us!

There’s lots of resources over at Montessori Soul - we enjoyed these Birds and their Nests cards, which are free to download.

We bought a Plan Toys egg from Babipur, which comes with a mystery gift inside (a sort of ethical, non-edible Kinder egg!).


BOOKS

An Egg is Quiet by Diana Ashton and Sylvia Long

Beautifully illustrated, simple introduction to eggs of all kinds; from tiny hummingbird eggs to giant ostrich eggs.

The Odd Egg by Emily Gravett

A fun, engaging book with split pages that allow the visual jokes to unfold.

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

When Sam-I-am pesters a grumpy grouch to eat a plate of green eggs and ham, we soon find out we can’t really know what we like until we try it!

The Emperor’s Egg by Martin Jenkins and Sue Chapman

The Emperor penguin is the only large animal to remain on the Antarctic mainland throughout its bitterly inhospitable winter. Once the female has laid her egg, she heads back to the sea, leaving the male to incubate it. He then spends two months standing on the freezing cold ice with the egg on his feet! This is his story.

Crazy for Birds by Mischa Blaise

This is our favourite bird book! From the Common Swift, which can stay in the air continuously without landing for up to ten months at a time, even sleeping on the wing, to the tiny Goldcrest, Europe’s smallest bird, which can lay one-and-one-half times its body weight in eggs every season, birds are incredible creatures.

Birds, Eggs and Nests: An Illustrated Aviary by Kelsey Oseid

A new contender for favourite bird book, this gorgeous illustrated guide is jam-packed with facts. Did you know that the tailorbird “sews” leaves together to make its nest? Or that hummingbird eggs are the size of jellybeans?

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