Birds Unit Study
Whittemore Extended Learning Website:
Click here to visit Whittemore's website for extended learning! Here you can find ideas and activities to continue our unit study of Birds and their amazing bodies! Here you can also find this week's optional learning packet.
Backyard Birds
IMG_0348.MOVBirds Outside Window
Check out these birds outside Mr. Nichol's window! Have you seen birds near your home? You can start a bird journal and draw and write about what you see! Your teachers would love to hear about it!
IMG_6952.MOVBlue Jay's Song
Mrs. Wolff was going for a walk and heard a beautiful sound. She looked up and saw this Blue Jay singing a song! What do you think he or she might be saying? You can make up and write a story or poem about what the Blue Jay might be saying!
We can continue our bird research from our own homes and share what we find with each other! Check out some birds your teachers have seen near their homes! Send pictures of birds you've seen and we can add them to the slideshow! Write about what you notice and what you wonder and share your thoughts with your teacher.
Here is a slideshow of birds in Mrs. DeSilva's backyard in Plymouth, MA and her aunt and uncle who live in Bridgton, Maine. There are also facts about each bird, web links to continue more research and tips on how to write informational texts. Hope you enjoy learning about birds!
How to Draw a Bird: Click here to practice drawing a bird! Label the parts of the bird you know.
Live Eagle Cam: Click here to check out a live video stream of a pair of Bald Eagles in Southwest Florida! Watch eagles Harriet and M15 hatch and raise their babies. Write about what you notice and what you wonder. Share your observations, writings, and drawings with me!
Pebble Go: Research birds on PebbleGo! Take notes on different birds and write to your teacher about what you've learned. Click here and navigate to Birds to start learning more! You can use this on a computer, tablet, or phone. It is free and you do not need to set up an account.
Username: pbgo
Password: library
Click here to explore lots of live web cams of birds! This a great resource for making observations about birds in their habitat.
Click here for a great place to look up more about birds. This is a kid friendly visual search engine and a great resource for exploring!
Here is our paragraph writing paper. As you are learning about birds you can write a 5 sentence paragraph about what you learned. The first and last sentence have sentence starters for you. The details are any facts that you know about that bird. Don't forget that every sentence needs to start with a capital letter, have spaces between words, and end with an end mark!
You can research a bird on PebbleGo and write about what you learn. If you can write a paragraph, that's great! If you can write 1 sentence, that's great too! Your teachers would love to see you writing at home and trying your best! You can write on any paper, you have at home. Send a picture of your work to your teacher! :)