Today's Classroom Activities :

Our Feathered Friends

Feathered Friends
Read/Science Create pictures of robins and take pictures of robins. Have students on the lookout for the birds' arrival. Read the following poem to the children and then have them act it out with you as it is reread.

Our Robin

by Martin Shaw

The robin puffs his bright red chest.
To make his presence known,
And skirts along the garden path,
Where tiny shoots have grown.

He brings a message in his song,
With cheery notes that ring,
Winter's at rest and gone to sleep,
And now it's time for Spring.

Follow this simple recipe to make some bird nests while practicing measurement and artistic skills:

12 oz. bag of chow mein noodles
3 tbsp. margarine
3 tbsp. creamy peanut butter
3 cups mini marshmallows

Melt the margarine on low heat, then add the peanut butter and marshmallows. Remove from the heat, add noodles and mix thoroughly. Spoon mixture into paper- lined muffin tins. With clean fingers coated with margarine, shape the nests. After the nests cool, add a couple of color oval candies to each nest. Students can also write creative stories about the nest, its eggs and who will hatch there.

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