I am in love with
this post at
Satori Smiles about bird watching with young children. So in love that I have forced my family to go to two different bird stores in the area during the past week or so. I have to confess that my main motivation in going to the stores was looking for these awesome stuffed birds with bird calls. I want them all!
I am going to use the information on that post to teach my first graders about birds this year and I am so excited to get started. I am planning to read one chapter from the Burgess Bird Book to my kids each week. I'm still playing around with different ideas: having the kids create bird journals, learning to draw birds, bird art, all the fun picture books that I clearly "need" to get the classroom library now. Especially this one:
I love the cover art! I think I got into this because of how well organized this post was and by realizing how many free resources there are out there that I could easily incorporate into my classroom. I also have a really cute tree that I am going to add each week's bird to as a display in the room. I have a lot more to think about and learn about on this topic. For now I'm getting myself organized by printing out the chapters of the Burgess book to put into a binder I can keep at school (I just love how my school blocks pretty much the entire internet so I'll have to print it at home) and deciding which books and other important resources (like adorable stuffed birds!) I need to buy.
More bird stuff:
http://satorismiles.com/2010/03/17/birds-birds-birds/
http://satorismiles.com/2010/03/09/bird-journal/
http://mentalmultivitamin.blogspot.com/2008/02/valentines.html
I really like this valentine idea and am thinking of doing something similar for my students.
http://www.spoolsewing.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/birdpattern1-1.pdf
I just think this is cute... I want to have a flock like this mobile:
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