Our momstown Milton
mamas and kids had fun exploring the
world of birds at our Little Scientist program recently! I think it is safe to say that we are all
breathing a sigh of relief that warmer weather is on the way. After a long winter it is exciting to
celebrate the return of Spring, and we are always happy to see the robins
return to our back yards!
We had a big group of Little Scientists, and we started off
by talking about what makes a bird, a bird!
The kids had many ideas about what a bird is! We narrowed down their ideas to a couple of
traits that all birds share: Birds have
feathers covering their bodies; and birds are hatched from eggs.
I asked the group: “Do all birds fly?”. Our smart little ones knew that all birds do
not fly. We talked about how all birds
can walk, most can fly, and that some can even swim.
We read a book about birds called Sparrow, Eagle, Penguin and Seagull – What is a Bird? by Brian P.
Cleary.
After the book, we talked about how Spring is nesting time
for birds, and how they are very hungry after migrating back from their warmer
winter homes. Our Little Scientists got
busy making pinecone
bird feeders to bring home and hang outside in their back yards.
Moms helped tie strings onto the pinecones (less messy to
tie it on BEFORE the peanut butter and bird seed is applied).
Everyone had fun using butter knives to spread peanut butter
on their pinecones.
Once the peanut butter was spread on, the kids took turns
shaking their pinecones in a Ziploc bag half filled with birdseed.
Voila! A wonderful
treat for our feathered friends!
After our bird feeders, our Little Scientists worked on
colouring a Bird Watching list. This was
a page filled with birds that our little ones will see in our area – robin,
chickadee, blue jay, cardinal, duck, goose, etc. We named each bird and looked at a photo of
each bird. They enjoyed colouring the
birds, and all were excited to start looking for the different birds as they
left for home.
Thank you all for coming out to the Little Scientist group
today! See you next time!
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Submitted by Paula Porter, a momstown Milton member and
mother of two children.
1 comment:
This is really a very educational program. I think this is good for the kids.
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