Spring is always an exciting time. Everywhere you look there is new growth, beautiful blooms, birds singing and frogs croaking. This book is funny and so well illustrated. The children love it. The perfect book to segue way into talking about spring, nests and eggs.
We just put seven chicken eggs into our incubator too!
The children learn about all of the interesting things birds collect for their nests in a fun way.
There is also a more sophisticated message in this story. Sometime we all look for “something better”, when in fact it is usually right in front of us!
After the story, the children got into a nest to be baby birds. Some of the children were the mom and dad birds and flew around looking for worms and bugs to feed to their children. So cute!
This baby bird is ready for a worm!
I had a video of a bird making a nest on the projector:
The afternoon classes made their own bird books. We then went on a bird watching adventure.
To make your own bird book, use this cover, then print the birds of choice for the inside of the book. The children loved it!
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