This One’s for the Birds!

Spring has finally arrived and with it come the birds!  This week’s Explorastory was all about our feathery friends.

Books:

Birds

“Birds” by Kevin Henkes

Little Green

“Little Green” by Keith Baker

Feathers for Lunch

“Feathers for Lunch” by Lois Ehlert

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Rhymes:

I used two bird puppets to present this rhyme, while the kids followed along using their hands.  The original rhyme is “Two Little Blackbirds,” but since I had brown birds I recited it as “Two Little Birds”

Two Little Birds

Two little birds sitting on a hill

One named Jack, one named Jill

Fly away Jack, fly away Jill

Come back Jack, come back Jill

 

I Saw a Little Bird   (we stood up and did the actions to this one together)

I saw a little bird go hop, hop, hop

I told that little bird to stop, stop, stop

I went to the window to say “How do you do?”

He just shook his little tail, and far away he flew!

 

Art:

We made bright, sparkly peacocks.  I gave the kids a peacock body shape (from http://www.allkidsnetwork.com/crafts/animals/birds/peacock-craft.asp), which I had cut out from blue construction paper.  We gave our peacocks beaks and feet cut out from orange construction paper and decorated them using feathers and rhinestones.

Have you seen a prettier bird?

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