Bird Watching

Bird watching we had about 15 different birds. A mix of Robins, Black-Capped Chickadee's and House Sparrows.

Setting up to make the feeders

So sticky

Always one for a project!

Steamroll

Looking good, the seeds are sticking!

The book and everything we needed.

Diligent hands

She took over the BIG roll

PERFECTO!

Now we wait and watch!

This year in school we are studying birds. We are also learning all of the states and capitals, all the United States Presidents, a timeline from Pilgrims and Patriots to modern day America along with MANY other things. Birds fit into this picture mainly in science but also in the fact that every state has it's own bird, tree, flower etc... This gives us plenty of reasons to study birds other than the fact that we all LOVE birds!

We have a great simple take-along guide bird book called Birds, Nests and Eggs the kids love its colorful pictures and simple informative information. We use it for the basis of a lot of our study.

So far we have learned about the American Robin, House Sparrow, American Goldfinch and the Black-Capped Chickadee.

For a fun project this week we made our own bird feeders. Taking old paper rolls punching holes for ribbon to hang them, we spread peanut butter all over then rolled them in bird seed and BOOM bird feeders! We also refilled our own bird feeder that hangs outside our breakfast nook so we can enjoy the chitter chatter every morning of all the birds that flit and fly outside.

A few pics of yesterdays activities! Enjoy bird watching 101