When asked about what they think are flying things, a wide variety of answers came in as responses from the children:
Aa: Aeroplane
S: Butterfly
Aa: Jet
Ab: Eagle
K: Those triangle things that guys take and fly. When there is wind they can fly (kite)
An: Dragonfly and bees
S: Helicopter, aeroplane
H: Parrot
Aa: Jet packs can fly when we wear and we press the button
S: Chicken, hen
F: Can they fly?
S: They have wings
F: So does everything with wings fly?
Collectively: Yes.
Post this they moved onto watching the video of birds, balloons, kites, helicopter, aeroplane, etc. flying and we had a discussion on they each flew. They explained about how each of them fly,
K: Ma'am, I can see one bird and one baby bird. Balloons can also fly
F: But balloons don't have wings. So how do they fly?
H: With the air
H: When the wind, when somebody leave hands, they go up.
K: It can be popped like this <claps his hands together> pop!
Then came a kite,
F: How does a kite fly?
H, K: Air , Wind
Then a bird and a helicopter,
K: Eagle! It has wings like this <pretending to fly>
F: Next. What's this?
Collectively: Helicopter!
F: How does this helicopter fly?
K:With its wings
S: Propeller goes tugh tugh tugh
An: Helicopter go like this (up and down motion)
K: I have a drone in my house. Makes sound and hand movements
Out came an…..?K: Aeroplane!!!
F: How does an aeroplane fly?
An: Wings!
K: I know how to make the aeroplane with my hands
S: This aeroplane looks like it has wheels on the wings
F: That's an interesting observation. Why do they have wheels on the wings?
An: To land. When they are going up and come up, they need wheels to come down.
F: What about a helicopter? Does it have wheels?
K: No.
F: Then how does it land?
An: It jumps down
Ab: It'll go down
Sees a spaceshuttle flying
S: Rocket! Only space shuttles can go outerspace. Only spaceshuttle have fire
The conversations went on and on about various things that fly. Since children were fond of singing 'Fly Fly Fly The Butterfly' nursery rhyme, we thought it would be a great idea to get them all together and create extensions to it to sing about some of their favourite things that flew other than the butterflies.
Here is the result:
F: So let's make a song now. What all things fly?
H: Balloon
Aa: Jet pack, rubber band
S: Rocket
K: Space Shuttle
An: Ribbon
L: Bird, aeroplane
S: Helicopter
Tune of 'Fly Fly Fly the Butterfly'
Fly fly fly the balloon fly
Up in the sky it's flying high
We try to catch it but it's too high
Fly fly fly the balloon fly
Fly fly fly the jet pack fly
I am going to fly very high
Then I land to the station
Fly fly fly the jet pack fly
Fly fly fly the rocket fly
In the night to the space it flies
Then it flies and lands on the moon
Fly fly fly the rocket fly.
Fly fly fly the ribbon fly
In the meadow it's flying high
With different colours it flies to the sun
Fly fly fly the ribbon fly
Fly fly fly the birdie fly
Up in the sky it's flying high
Quick quick quick it's sitting in the nest
Fly fly fly the birdie fly
* quick being the sound it makes when it sits in the nest.
Fly fly fly the aeroplane
Up in the sky it flies so fast
All the around the world it's flying high
Fly fly fly the aeroplane fly.
Fly fly fly the helicopter fly
Up propeller and back propeller
Turn turn turn turns really fast
Fly fly fly the helicopter fly
Fly fly fly the rubber band fly
We pull it and leave it
It fly so high and lands on the ground
Then we pick it up and throw it up again!
Contributed by Sruthy Krishna, Learning Facilitator at Sparkling Mindz Global Preschool.
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