Hello Everyone, thank you for dropping in to check out some Forest School activities.
This weekend is the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch and I wondered if some of you would like to get involved?
If you would there is plenty of information about it on the internet if you follow this link.
You might want to start finding out a little bit more about the birds that visit around your house and garden, to be prepared for the Big Birdwatch at the weekend, so how about exploring garden birds and send me some information about what you found out? Just start with one bird that you want to get to know more about- you could…
draw it, photograph it, pretend to be it, find out about it by reading, make a model of it, collect evidence of it, make a game about it, measure it, write a story about it, perform a dance about it, make a tune that it would love, record the sounds it makes, build it a home…
A good way to start getting blackbirds to visit your garden is by leaving them your apple core on the ground when you have finished eating it- check with your grown up first. But you might also see bluetits, starlings, great tits, gold finches, red kites, sparrows, bull finches, chaffinches. Which do you like the most and why?
My favourite birds are the starlings, they mimic the sounds they hear in their environment and so quite often call and chatter to each other making sounds like R2D2 from Star Wars, they are friendly and a bit giddy sounding. They look like a rainbow on legs in the sunlight and when they get together they make magical murmurations.
Here’s a starling and here’s the noises they make… they sound even better in a group.
Happy twitching!! Let me know how you get on, and if this learning doesn’t spark an interest for you, look back through the blog and have a go at one of the other home learning activities… k.brown@meadowsideacademy.org