Homeschool Lesson Plan: Birds

*Lesson is appropriate for children ages 3-8 (tailored for my three children ages 3, 5 and 7).

Poetry:

• March 17- Two Wrens by Anonymous (from Sing a Song of Seasons)
• Nesting Time by Christina Rossetti (from A Child’s Book of Poems p10)
• Be Like The Bird by Anonymous (from A Child’s Book of Poems p11)
• A Bird by Emily Dickinson (from A Child’s Book of Poems p43)

Read Aloud:

• Why Do Birds Have Beaks? (from Little Kids First Big Book of Why p74-75)
• Looking at Birds & Why Do Birds Fly (from The Usbourne Complete First Book of Nature p3 & 6)
• Bird Watch by Christie Matheson

Music:

• Two Little Blackbirds
• If I Had Wings
• Woodpecker

Math:

• Times Table Birds Worksheet (7 year old)
• Counting Bird Addition Worksheet (5 & 3 year old)

Journal:

• 7 year old: “If I could fly…” and draw a picture of a bird.
• 5 year old: Read and copy sight word sentence – “I want to fly like a bird.” and draw a picture of a bird.
• 3 year old: Trace the word “BIRD” and draw a picture of a bird.

Activities:

• Bird Bingo
• Bird Match Game
• Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems Episode 1 – Drawing Pidgeon
• Make binoculars using toilet paper holders
• Go on a bird watching walk with homemade binoculars

Centers:

• Playdough with glitter added
• Bird seed sensory bin (I threw in our laminated eggs from the Life, Abundantly free Counting Bird Activity Set and set the egg poster out beside the bin for them to cover up the eggs with as they find them in the seeds; also included a scooper because its fun to pour!)
• Finger knitting