birds

looking everywhere for birds.....
We learned a lot about birds this week! Our field trip gave us the opportunity to see a whole family of birds. The children enjoy a "quiz game" that we play and are able to name birds given facts about them...."I am a bird that lays blue eggs and I am blue" means BLUEBIRD! We constructed nests from yarn and glue, and made eggs from clay to paint and put in the nests. There were "hummingbird" eggs, "bluebird" eggs, and little eggs and big eggs, and the children chose the colors to paint them.
The sensory table was filled with paper shreds and little birds and eggs, and paper nests to nestle them into. "find the bird" was a favorite game.

a special visitor
painting all the eggs...what color did you choose?
dress up was changed to include safety vests and capes.
getting a "monocular" to help focus...
lets' take a look
gathering before we go

a ship in the classroom to travel down the Hudson
there it is!
any birds up there?


lots of looking
Until Next Time,
Michele