A Unit Project: For the Birds

Because of a certain little Robin Bird that decided to build a nest on our gutter we had quite an interest in birds throughout the spring. We watched as the mother sat on her eggs, to them hatching, and the most fun was watching the mother feed worms to her babies. Soon they grew up and we watched as they practiced flying and eventually left an empty nest. So throughout this we did a different thing each day to learn more and have fun with birds. We made a book with bird stickers, practiced writing bird related words, drew our observations of the birds and there nest. We collected things in our yard to make a nest like the bird with watered down glue, grass, sticks, weeds etc... From the Martha Stewart line we made balloon birds and pom pom birds and once the real nest fell had lots of fun playing "pretend" birds in a real nest. Tweeterific Fun!!!