Bird Camp Day 1

We had a wonderful first day of Bird Camp. Both the morning and afternoon sessions were very enthusiastic about camp. Today we answered the question, "What is a bird?" We learned that birds have feathers, lay eggs, have two wings, two legs, and a beak.

The children were especially excited about the bird camp pets. We have four baby chickens and two Zebra Finch birds.

One of the activites we did for centers today was "feather art." They could paint with feathers, glue feathers, make crayon rubbings of feathers...basically, they were supposed to be creative with feathers!

At the writing center, we made observation journals. They will use these journals to write down what they are learning about birds and to draw observational drawings of birds.

During the afternoon session, some of our older students enjoyed figuring out where different species of birds live and then placed them on the map.

After centers each day we meet for large group. We discuss the question of the day. Today's question was, "Which is the tallest bird?" The answer was an ostrich! We then learned more about ostriches.








For our project work experience today, we went on a bird scavenger hunt. After learning about the different features of birds, we looked for some of those features on different birds. Some of the kids enjoyed trying to classify the birds.