April 28th

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Today we explored the turkey and learned what a snood and a wattle are. Mystery science helped us learn these new vocabulary words. We are creating a bird canvas too.

April 26th

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Today we explored the falcon and the bald eagle.

We used explore.org to observe baby eaglets.

We solved a problem about sunflowers and used our mathematical thinking.

April 25th

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Today we started to explore birds of prey. Some of the unique features they have are: sharp beaks, sharp talons, super eyesight, and they make their nests on high places like mountains, hills, and even power poles.

April 14th

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We explored the different ways gulls help the environment. They eat trash/food scrapes. Gulls live near both fresh water and saltwater. Gulls all like to eat fish and have a hook on their beak to help them catch their prey.

We explored more and fewer today also as we observed and identified different groups that had fewer and more objects.

April 12th

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Why is a  Flamingo pink? Look here.

Today we explored the Flamingo and its unique features. We learned that they live on only 5 of the 7 continents.

We explored adding groups of objects using mathematical symbols.

April 11th

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Today we started to explore water birds. The children thought about some of the special features and adaptations water birds have that help them survive in and around the water.

April 7th

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Today we explored bird habitats. We explored the different types of beaks that birds have and how they connect to the habitat they live in.

Mystery science helped us explore how birds adapt to where they live and how they can build a home anywhere they are.

We also learned about Food Chains and created our own.

April 6th

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Today we explored perching birds and discovered the state bird of Vermont. It is the Hermit Thrush. 

We learned the names of some perching birds that are found in Vermont and on other continents.

We are working on identifying numbers that come before and after a number. Later we will explore the different types of tools you can use to measure.

April 4th

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We created our spring portraits. The children did a wonderful job with their art. So much growth and the details are impressive.

We used mystery science as a way to help us learn about the uniques features of birds.

April 1st

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The month of April is Citizen Science month. We will be exploring outdoors and sharing our observations with BioBlitzs. The great thing about Citizen Science is that anyone can participate, anywhere. We will be sharing our observations with National Geographic(for those that have given permission/Grovenor Fellowship) and our daily photos.

One of the big ideas about this type of science is that it increases our knowledge about things in the natural world. When this happens we begin to understand what nature needs to survive and the ways we can help.

Today we began to explore the life of birds.