Kindergarten, Science, Week 29

This week we read:

• Even an Ostrich Needs a Nest by Irene Kelly
• Paintings are realistic, and though not first rate they demonstrate the birds and nests very well; each page shows at least one bird and it's nest with three to five sentences about the bird and nest.
• This book is rather long. I tried to read the whole book in 1 day, but K. got bored about 3/4ths of the way through, so I would recommend just looking at a few pages each day.
• About Raptors by Cathryn Sill
• It's a Bird by Elisa Peters
• Pictures; one sentence per page tells a fact about birds.
• Do You Know About Birds by Buffy Silverman
• Pictures; two to six sentences per page; teaches about feathers, beaks, and eggs
• Birds and Trees by Emily C. Dawson
• Pictures; two to three sentences per page tell why birds need trees and trees need birds
• Eagles by Julie K. Lundgren
• Pictures; three to eight sentences per page tell about eagles
• Swans by Valerie Bodden
• Pictures; three to five sentences per page teach about swans
• Thunder Birds by Jim Arnosky
• Fantastic Paintings, some pages fold out to show life size birds. We didn't read the text in this book -- just looked at the birds (and their wing spans) and talked about what a great God we have and the wonderful birds He made.
• Birds by Nicola Davies
• Pictures; lots of information about birds with a couple projects at the end of the book
• The Peregrine's Journey by Madeleine Dunphy
• Realistic Paintings; tells the story of a falcon migrating from the arctic to Argentina

Fiction books about birds:

• Tara's Flight by Ruth Eitzen
• An imaginative story about the dove that Noah let out of the ark
• Those Calculating Crows! by Ali Wakefield
• A counting story about crows and a corn field
• Annie and Snowball and the Cozy Nest by Cynthia Rylant
• Nice story about a robin building her nest, laying and hatching eggs
• The Birdwatchers by Simon James
• A story about a girl and her grandpa going birdwatching

Also:

• We watched this video of a robin family hatching and growing up 
• We marked the wing spans of some birds on our driveway