Jugando con la naturaleza. Having fun with nature

 Spring is the air! We all can see the changes around us, flowers blooming, green trees waking up, bees, birds, and sunny days. 

A couple of years ago a bird built it nest on a tree by my window, my kids and I enjoyed watching the way the bird took care of the nest and laid the eggs and feed the little birds. When they left the nest we carefully removed it from the branch and I have kept it since then. 

I brought it to preschool so my little friends could actually see a real nest (nido), they observed it and were fascinated with all the things the bird used to built the nest. 

Something that I don' t understand just yet is how could a bird know what to use? Interesting!

Well I shared with the children a book called " More" and after that we went on a nest hunt, the children collected grass, rocks, yarn, twigs, paper, anything to built their own little nest.

It was so much fun!

 " Un pajarito, lindo y chiquito

Un pajarito con un piquito,

Come, come,come gusanitos,

Come, come, come gusanitos"

I was not planning for this...but it turned to be and awesome literacy activity

 

As part of my lesson I was going to teach the children a new song

" Una linda abejita" which is the Spanish version of  " I am bringing home a baby bumble bee"

As soon as I started to sing a little girl raised her hand and said " I know that song in English" and she started to sing her version of the song. At the end she said " That is the end of my story"

Then I said  " You guys would like to hear my story?" 

Suddenly after I was done singing a bunch of little hands were raised wanted it to share their stories. What an amazing activity, the children were laughing from the silly versions of their songs, they practiced their listening skills, language, creative thinking and also waited for their turn to come to the front of the class and sing, all of these with out having to ask anything Wow! 

At the end I asked them if they wanted to make a picture of their story and I could not resist to wrote down what they came up with. They were all super excited to share with their families.