Tuesday, 12 June 2012

Building a nest in the forest

Line of Inquiry: How animals use plants

Yesterday the children displayed an understanding that animals use plants for food and to camouflage for protection. The idea that animals use plants for shelter wasn't as familiar to them. To explore this idea we watched a video of two eagles working together to build a nest. Then the children used their imagination to transform themselves into eaglets and we flew into the forest to build a nest.
After looking at the heights of the trees the children agreed to use their imagination again and build their nest on the ground and pretended to be high in the trees.
What will the baby birds eat? Worms was their answer but they did not want to eat worms. After a lengthy explanation of how some people do actually eat worms from Nicky we decided to use Cheerios instead since they "look like worms curled up in a circle"


After the nest was built everyone took a turn being a parent eagle feeding their hungry eaglets!
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  1. Kate12 June 2012 at 15:20

    Oh Wendy, I can see this unfolding with your words and with your photos. Wonderful. I bet you had a delightful time watching the children explore their environment, haul limbs, move together in harmony. It would be really great to see the eagles in their nest down at Jericho beach some time. They are just off to the North of the Jericho baseball diamond. Maybe anyone else who reads this post can take their child down there to see/hear/marvel at the birds and the nest that grows bigger each year. The birds used to use the nest just above the road near the diamond but for some reason it's not been used this year. Check out the eagle cam some time. We can find the link and display it on the big screen in the Centre...I'll see if I can get that done right now!

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