On Tuesday we talked about Birds in Wisconsin. Mrs. Gould had lots of pictures of "Wisconsin Backyard Birds" and we learned their names. The ones we remember most are cardinal, blue jay, robin, house finch, and mallard duck.
We also listed things we already knew about birds. We knew that:
Birds fly.
They have wings.
They make nests.
They come in different sizes.
There are many different kinds.
They have beaks.
After snack we had music and practiced songs for our spring sing. It will be held on May 15th at 10:30 in the church sanctuary.
Then it was time to bundle up and go for a bird hunt. (we wrote this language experience math story as a class on Wednesday morning, the day after our bird hunt.)
Our Bird Hunt
We saw 2 cardinals. A mommy and a daddy. The mommy was brown the daddy was bright red. We saw 6 birds flying in the sky. We saw 5 robins! We also saw things that weren't birds! We passed 2 dogs, saw 2 jet airplanes and Duncan found 2 meteor rocks!!
Then we added 6+5+2 to find out that we saw 13 birds all together!
What a surprise, as we kept walking we ended up at our favorite park!!! We had to play on the equipment!! We ended up staying a little too long and were late coming back to class....
We were so happy to see all our grown ups waiting for us outside when we got back!!
Wednesday we learned about mallard ducks. We watched some short videos on youtube and saw baby mallards following their mom in the water! We also saw how the daddy has a bright green head and the mommy is more of a brownish color...sort of like the cardinals! Here is the link to a one of the videos we watched:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHevNn-AVQg
Mar 11, 2009 - Uploaded by James Knott
Then we heard Mrs. Gould's favorite story from when she was little, Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey. It's a Caldecott winning book that takes place in Boston. It's based on a true story that Robert McCloskey read in the Newspaper when he was an art student in Boston!!
For anyone who's never heard the story here's a link to it being read on Youtube. I bet your kids might have fun listening to the story over again!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0fQpliJJQI
Aug 31, 2010 - Uploaded by SeaK80Reed
Robert McClosky's Amazon Page: http://www.amazon.com/Robert-McCloske... Make Way for ...We started learning the letter Q and it's sound. We looked at the word Quack and realized a q was at the beginning of the word!! Then we used pinto beans and glue to make an upper and lower case Q.
We talked about birds beaks on Thursday. We made bird feeders out of toilet paper tubes, peanut butter and bird seed!
We also celebrated Jacobs 5th birthday!! He brought in super cool airplane cookies to share with us and wore a really cool airplane shirt to school too!! Happy Birthday Jacob and thanks for the birthday cookies!!
We also had a special visitor on Thursday, Jonas's Grandma Jean and her 10 week old puppy, Maggie came to visit!! Maggie is a scottie and soooo friendly. She came up to each of the children so we could pet her. She also rolled over and wagged her tail a lot to let us know she felt happy and safe!! Thanks for sharing Maggie with us Jonas and Grandma Jean!!
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