Feathers for Lunch

Recently J asked to learn more about birds. She has gone a bird craze about the house, pretending we are all birds, making a nest full of eggs that I must sit on, flapping her wings. This book was perfect for learning about birds. Feathers for Lunch is written by Lois Ehlert. The pictures and story are just fun. It is about a cat who gets out and is trying to catch a bird for lunch but all he ends of eating are feathers. What I love about this book is that each page has a different bird as well as a different plant and the birds pictures are life size. Each bird and plant are labeled making it easy to research them. Here are some of the activities we worked on this week.

We are still working on number recognition and skip counting. Homeschool Share has a great kindergarten bird kit. Here, J is working on skip counting by 5's. I hid a smaller bird under one of the numbers and she had to guess where the bird was. She wasn't allowed to look until she said the number correctly. We took turns playing this.

I found a bird graphing sheet. J had to cut out the birds and place them in the correct column. We talked about what bird had the least and which one had the most.

We discussed the differences between birds and cats. I read the sentences and she choose where they belonged. We worked on an animal classification app called Montessori Vertebrates. It went through the differences between mammals, reptiles, birds, fish, and amphibians. After listening to the differences, J had to determine what the animal was based on the characteristics that she learn. This was a good game for her.

Our rhyme this week is Sing a Song of Sixpence. Here, J is coloring the cover sheet for her nursery rhyme notebook pages. I can't say I love this rhyme, we changed a few of the words to make it more friendly.

Another project for our nursery rhyme book. She is coloring her blackbird blue. She is doing well remembering all of the rhymes that we have done so far. She is always asking to review them. We are still learning about birds this week. We aren't done. I wanted to add one more picture...J is loving two movies right now. She is always asking to watch either one every day. Her favorites are Gnomeo and Juliet and The Wild. It was such a nice day yesterday that the kids were playing in their sandbox on the balcony. Keke took this funny picture.

J is playing Juliet with her feet stuck to the tower (you have to see the movie), holding up her flower. Kaleb is mimicking her. Isn't that cute? Hope your day is warm and sunny.