Last week Zac brought in a bird’s nest to show the class and we put it in a fish tank for everyone to look at. The children were excited to see the nest and this started us on a new investigation in our Home Sweet Home unit. We examined what the nest is made of, played with bird puppets and read a variety of books about birds and nests, the children also drew bird pictures and painted nests at the easel…
“Where is the birds?” wondered Liam, “they could be in the sky, they can fly as well.”
“It’s a nest” said Kristian. “Two nesties, on here, in here. There’s a big one and another big one” he pointed. “Little birds up and mummy and daddies. They fly to get food. Worms… dere no worms. Mummy and daddy birds get worms to eat… Straw and sticks, there are only twigs.”
“Where do you find a nest?” asked Miss Bowden.
“In a tree of course” answered Kristian.
“They’re no birds, they’re outside. Worms can eat worms” said Pauline.
“Eggy” said Hudson noticing the broken egg shell in the bottom of the nest. “What’s happened to eggy? It was that” he pointed to a puppet, “It’s ‘scaped.”
Kind regards,
Ali and Coral
