Rosie decides she’d like to go for a walk and a hungry fox follows her.  Walk with Rosie around, across, under, through, and past the barnyard and find out if the fox gets her in the end.

Materials

• Draw an oval egg shape about 7 inches long onto several colors of paper.
• Animal walk maze
• Magnet board and magnet wand

Vocabulary

• Haycock (another word for haystack which is a pile of hay stacked up in a field and left to dry)
• Mill (the factory where the wheat straw is made into flour)

Before Reading the Story

            Ask the children if they like to go for walks? Where do they walk, what do they see, who goes with them?  Tell them that today you are going to read a story about a chicken named Rosie who goes for a walk.  Show the children the cover of the book and ask them if they can guess what might happen while Rosie is out walking?

Literacy/Book Knowledge & Appreciation; demonstrates progress in abilities to retell and dictate stories from books and experiences; to act out stories in dramatic play; and to predict what will happen next in a story.

Reading the Story

            On each page where the author is telling what Rosie is doing, use your finger to show the preposition (across the yard, move your finger across the page).  Then point to the fox on that page and ask the children if they can guess what is going to happen to the fox?

Mathematics/Geometry & Spatial Sense; builds an increasing understanding of directionality, order, and positions of objects, and words such as up, down, over, under, top, bottom, inside, outside, in front, behind.

After Reading the Story

            Spend a minute talking about the fox in the story.  Why do you think he was following Rosie?  Do you think it was safe for Rosie to go out by herself?  Ask the children if they wanted to go out for a walk what should they do? (tell an adult).   Talk about strangers and how one should not go with strangers.  What would you do if a stranger came up to you and said to come with them?  Would you take candy from a stranger?

Physical Health & Development/Health Status & Practices; builds awareness and ability to follow basic health and safety rules such as fire safety, traffic and pedestrian safety, and responding appropriately to potentially harmful objects, substances, and activities.

Discovery

Make a magnet board by attaching the pictures of Rosie and the Fox to a magnet. On a piece of posterboard draw a simple path for the child to follow using the magnet. Give the child a second magnet to put under the posterboard. Show them how to move their hand to make the top Rosie magnet move along the page. Here are some simple instructions for a more elaborate magnet board. https://buggyandbuddy.com/creative-magnet-activity/

Physical Health & Development/Fine Motor Skills; progresses in abilities to use writing, drawing, and art tools, including pencils, markers, chalk, paint brushes, and various types of technology. AND Literacy/Early Writing; begins to represent stories and experiences through pictures, dictation, and in play.

Music and Movement

            Teach the children this traditional Mexican rhyme. It is used the same as children in the USA might use One potato, two potato or Eeny meeny miney moe.

La gallina Francolina, by Artuo Navarro

            La gallina Francolina                    Francolina, the hen

            Puso un huevo en la cocina.          Laid an egg in the kitchen.

            Puso uno, puso dos,                    She laid one, she laid two

            Puso tres, puso cuatro,                She laid three, she laid four

            Puso cinco, puso seis,                  She laid five, she laid six

            Puso siete, puso ocho,                  She laid seven, she laid eight

            Puso un pan de bizcocho!              She laid a good tasting cake!

Mathematics/Number & Operations; develops increasing ability to count to 10 and beyond. AND Language Development/Listening & Understanding; demonstrates increasing ability to attend to and understand conversations, stories, songs, and poems.

Blocks

            Bring a set of dominos to the block center.  Show the children how to stand them carefully on end close to each other making a domino trail.  When all the dominos are lined up in a row, gently push the first one.  This should cause the next to fall and all continue to fall making a domino trail.

Physical Health & Development/Fine Motor Skills;grows in eye-hand coordination in building with blocks, putting together puzzles, reproducing shapes and patterns, stringing beads, and using scissors.

Art

            Bring the book to the art table and note how all the illustrations have patterns.  Give the children materials that they can practice making patterns on paper.  You can use stamp pads and stampers or paint with various items to print repeated patterns (a cup turned upside down to make rows of circles)

Mathematics/Patterns & Measurement; enhances abilities to recognize, duplicate, and extend simple patterns using various materials.

Library and Writing

Make several copies of the maze, Rosie’s Walk.  Cover them with contact paper and give the children washable markers to trace the animal’s footprints around the page.

Physical Health & Development/Fine Motor Skills; progresses in abilities to use writing, drawing, and art tools, including pencils, markers, chalk, paint brushes, and various types of technology. AND Literacy/Early Writing; begins to represent stories and experiences through pictures, dictation, and in play.

            Go back through the book but this time instead of focusing on what Rosie does on each page; have the children talk about what the fox does on each page.  Put their thoughts down on paper and help the children write the foxes version of Rosie’s walk.

Literacy/Book Knowledge & Appreciation; shows growing interest in reading-related activities, such as asking to have a favorite book read; choosing to look at books; drawing pictures based on stories; asking to take books home; going to the library; and engaging in pretend-reading with other children.

Dramatic Play

            Add some stuffed farm animals to the center.  The children can pretend to gather eggs, milk a cow, and feed the various animals.

Creative Arts/Dramatic Play; shows growing creativity and imagination in using materials and in assuming different roles in dramatic play situations.

Math and Manipulatives

            Put out the colored egg shapes on paper and a variety of manipulatives.  Ask the children to each fill up their egg with the manipulative of their choice.  Count how many they could fit onto the egg shape.  No stacking only lying on the paper. (7 duplos fit on my egg, more then 11 puzzle pieces fit on my egg, 26 dots fit on my egg).  You can also use the egg shapes to have the children match items of the same color.

Mathematics/Number & Operations; develops increased abilities to combine, separate, and name “how many” concrete objects. AND Mathematics/Number & Operations; begins to use language to compare numbers of objects with terms such as more, less greater than, fewer, and equal to.

Outdoor Play

            Have the children help make an obstacle course on your playground.  Have the children go out of somewhere (the chicken coup), go across something (the yard), go around something (the pond), go over something (the haycock), go past something (the mill), go through something (the fence), and go under something (the beehives).  Label each part of the obstacle course according to Rosie’s walk.

Mathematics/Geometry & Spatial Sense; builds an increasing understanding of directionality, order, and positions of objects, and words such as up, down, over, under, top, bottom, inside, outside, in front, behind.

Transitions

            Bring a chair to the center of your circle.  As the children move to the next activity say a preposition and have them demonstrate as they go. (Go around the chair one time, jump behind the chair, go under the chair, sit on the chair and clap twice).

Mathematics/Geometry & Spatial Sense; builds an increasing understanding of directionality, order, and positions of objects, and words such as up, down, over, under, top, bottom, inside, outside, in front, behind. AND Language Development/Listening & Understanding; shows progress in understanding and following simple and multiple-step directions.

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