We were in the first group so walked to the amphitheater by Whispering Woods and played a few games that helped us learn more about habitat, family and survival.
We played a new version of "rock, paper, scissors" where you add "bird" on the end and if you win, you become the next stage of a bird - we start as an egg then grow to a hatchling then a fledgling then a grown bird. We learned that in real life at each stage, sometimes the bird doesn't make it and sometimes it does depending on getting the essentials of water, food, shelter and space.
We played a new version of "Simon Says" with the words "CPAWS says" using actions for water, food, shelter and space. Ask me what the actions for each are!
Remember the game, "Red, light, green light"? We heard a story about the Peregrin Falcon and how it was on the "at risk" list because of the food cycle of mosquitos eaten by spiders eaten by ducks eaten by peregrine falcons - and how a little bit of chemicals in the mosquitos affected each in the cycle a little bit more. We played the game where we were all wolves working together to get the Falcon's egg - we had to be sneaky because the Falcon has really keen eyesight!!
Then we had a quick break and snack and then it was our turn to go Birding with Vlad - he was our guest who is an expert "birder" and can hear and see birds really well. We had to be in "stealth" mode so we could listen and observe lots of birds.
Here are some of the birds we saw - ask me how many I saw! Robins, Chickadees, Downy Woodpeckers, Ravens...Mrs. Armour will add pictures of our walk on Monday.
We all gathered in Room 2 to see how to add our list of birds on the eBird website - Mrs. Armour will send home more information on how to do this on Monday. We will share the list with everyone, so you can see all the birds we saw. Stephanie told us tomorrow, May 5th, is Global Big Day so if you want to go on to
www.ebird.org
and submit your findings, you will join with thousands across the whole world who are birding at the same time!
What a beautiful day to go birding!!
Next week we will be continuing on Math word problems, adding and subtracting, the "ick" family for grade ones, the "ing" rules and words grade twos, sketching and writing about "Mickey" our mascot, and working on our dioramas and animals.
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