Since we have been learning about birds, we moved on to the next part of our project:WHERE THEY LIVE- AND THEIR NESTS!
The students imagined they were a bird and started thinking of things they could use to make a nest! Once they thought of different things they drew out pictures of it and wrote down what materiel they would use.
By:Mateo-"Birds use sticks and mud!" (He wanted to show his bird in the nest..)
By:Ashley-feathers,grass,leaf,sticks & wood chips
By:Kaelynn-Sticks
So we went and bought lots of materials and set it out for our children to start making their very own nest! We told them to once again imagine they were a bird.
The materials we had were:
- sticks
- hay
- yarn
- newspaper strips
- cut paper
- clay(as mud)
- fur
So the children began their mission....
One of the students used clay to connect the sticks together to make a circular shape..when she realized it still wouldn't hold together,she began using yarn to tie the sticks!
Getting a little help from one of our older students ;-)
These students had the bottom layer of their nest secure..they were trying to figure out what to use for the baby eggs to lay in that would be nice and soft?!?!!
We took our nest and told Mrs.Maryam, "were done!" We started to talk about how if we put the eggs in the nest they would fall through,and how their was no protection around our nest to keep the eggs safe from predators! We brought some eggs and tested them out in our nest to see if they were safe and wouldn't fall through....
We started looking in our bird book to see all the materials and how they were used..this helped us to better understand how and why a bird used each thing they did..that's when we looked at our own stuff and saw the fur! We would use that for our eggs to lay in! :o)
We worked on our nests for a while. Many times it would break or mess up and we would have to start all over again. It was a good experiment for us to try out because we were determined to make our nest the best way we had imagined in our head! The students never gave up, they just kept trying! All the nests were made very differently, not one was the same with another one!
Doing this activity really helped us realize the hard work that birds do when they make a nest. We even joked around about how birds only use their beaks to make the nest. It took hard work for us to get our nests to be strong enough to hold an egg and to protect it from falling out of the nest. This really helped reinforce our knowledge about what materials birds use to make a nest and how they build them.
Our end product:
By: Annika & Ashley
By:Tirza
By:Dimi
By:Joshua
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