Jun. 21, 2007
Our Bird Watching "center"
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Nature Study and Journaling
I've been talking about it and finally got it done! We have an official "bird watching" window now! I color copied 6 of the birds we see most often at our bird feeders and made a chart out of them. The girls are going to mark the chart each time they see one of the birds. I think this will help them be able to identify the birds we see, learn their names and see which birds come the most often, least often to our home. After we have learned these 6 I may put some others up.
We also have a basket with our nature journals, a bird guide and colored pencils sitting by the window where the bird feeders are. This basket has been there for about a week and the girls are enjoying drawing birds more and more! The first few times we drew in our nature journals (months ago) they would say "I can't do it, I can't draw that..." and now they are EAGER and ASK to draw things in their nature journals all the time, without any prodding from me! I love it!
Here are a few pictures of our bird watching window, as well as a few drawings that Hannah has done this week!
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Jun. 21, 2007 - Very Clever Idea!
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by MichelleL
I like that idea. My dc might actually do that!
How did you decide which birds to choose to look for?
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Jun. 21, 2007 - Untitled Comment
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by CandaceC
Hi Michelle! What I did first is buy the bird guide from the book store, then for a few weeks now I have been watching to see what birds come to our bird feeders and our yard. It actually took me awhile to identify a few of them...as there are SO many different birds that are brown with spots, ya know? So, once I identified the birds that came to our yard the most, I copied those pictures to put on our chart. So, these are birds I have seen in our yard at some point already! Hope that makes sense! :)
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Jun. 21, 2007 - Untitled Comment
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by Diane
Ooooohhh I love this bird idea. I think I may borrow it if you don't mind. This is why I LOVE homeschool blogs, I learn so much. :)
Oh, and yes, that was a greasy chip- LOL...Wise chips love me, apparently. :) It's very rare that we would eat chips, but I thought it was funny that I found a heart shaped one. :) Little things amuse me as you can tell.
Have a terrific weekend.
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Jun. 21, 2007 - Wow!
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by Nana
I love the bird watching center! This is the best unit yet, and you have the perfect window and window seat as well. You have lots of birds in your yard too! What fun they are having!
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Jan. 22, 2008 - that rocks
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by msack
I'll have to steal this idea! You might want to check out this link
http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc
Our family took part in this last year and it was really neat!
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