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10-8-00Baby bird by Joyce Dunbar ; illustrated by Russell Ayto. Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, c1998. A bird falls out of his nest while trying to fly and has encounters with several animals before he finds success. Round Robin by Jack Kent. New York: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1982. A robin who has eaten until he looks more like a ball than a bird finds when Fall comes that he can only walk south while the other robins fly. Island baby by Holly Keller. New York: Greenwillow Books, c1992. Pops, a man who runs a bird hospital on an island, and his young helper Simon nurse an injured baby bird back to health. Feathers for lunch by Lois Ehlert. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1990. An escaped housecat encounters twelve birds in the back yard but fails to catch any of them and has to eat feathers for lunch. Brave bear by Kathy Mallat. New York: Walker, 1999. A bear bravely goes out on a limb to help a baby bird get back to its nest.
7-30-00We had a flamingo themed week. Two of the projects I designed were "#4 Flamingos" and "Flamingo Bookmarks". The first one was done by drawing the body, head, and neck of the flamingo and having the kids paste on a precut #4 for the legs. Then, they painted his body pink and glued on circles for his eyes. The second was done by drawing the flamingo on a long rectangular bookmark shape of pink construction paper. This requires some drawing ability. The kids then colored it however they wanted and then glued a wiggly eye on when they were finished. CUTE!
Date: 3-18-00Spring Time, Bird, Robin. Show Pictures to the students of a Robin. Paint/color pictures of Robins. Take a class walk and point out Robins. Read stories about Robins. On the science table put out a Robin's Nest that was taken in the late fall from a tree. I put fake blue eggs (purchased at a craft store or make with paper mache) into my nest. I discuss with the students how important it is to never touch a bird's egg as the Mom bird will not sit on the eggs if she smells "people" (this I have been told as a child). As an art project, we make our own bird's nest. We go for a nature walk (or the kids or teacher can bring in ) and find tiny twigs, string, hay, things that can be used to make a nest. Then using real mud, we make a nest. I have used a paper bowl to mold it in. This works. Then we make paper mache' eggs and paint then to put inside our nest. It is a messy fun project.
2-16-00Snowy Owls. Materials required: Cotton batten, pine cones, eyes, feet and beak from construction paper. Cut circles for eyes, diamond shape for beaks, folded in half. Circle shape for feet with toes cut out at top. Stretch cotton over pine cone and most of it will go into grooves. Glue feet, eyes and beak on.
2-16-00Hanging birds. Cut out general shape of bird. Cut slit along back. Take a square piece of paper and fold like fan fold...narrow folds, one way then other.....insert into slit halfway to make wings. Punch hole and hang from string
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