Description
With a fine eye for detail, a girl observes and describes birds—their sizes, their colors, their shapes, the way they move and appear and disappear, and how they are most like her. She imagines what it would be like if clouds looked like birds, or if she could ask the birds questions.
Though she can’t fly, the girl can do one thing birds do—she can sing. Vibrant and lively paintings accompany a text pitched precisely to preschoolers.
You can do a data collection & analysis with all the information in the book
From Amazon reviewer: ScotFlower
Students could cut out bird images and sort them by color, determine the distinguishing features of birds (versus other animals), explore tactile baskets filled bird themed items (feathers, nest, eggs, seeds, 3D birds, etc.), match bird photos to their names, listen to each of those bird’s calls, go bird watching with a checklist, count the birds and graph them, make a bird diorama with all the things that species needs to live, do all sorts of creative writing/art/crafts, and even answer that question in the book about what birds do when it rains 😉 Heck you could even spin off from this book to do a similar units on mammals, reptiles, fish, insects, amphibians, etc.
To make this activity more interesting, please check the below book:
Amazon.com: Birds: Photographs: 9781419747618: Flach, Tim, Prum, Richard O.: Books.
From familiar friends to marvelous rarities, Flach’s birds convey the beauty and wonder of the natural world. In these magnificent photographs are all manner of songbirds, parrots, and birds of paradise; birds of prey, water birds, and theatrical domestic breeds. The brilliant ornithologist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard O. Prum is our guide to this magical kingdom.
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