Sunday 21st
January 2018
On a wet, sleety day, six children and their accompanying
adults joined in the session to prepare for the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch.
Whilst everyone congregated, the children completed a
sheet which incorporated such questions as:
What birds do you know visit your garden?
Which bird would you most like to see in your garden?
How might birds be encouraged into the garden?
We then talked about the details of the Birdwatch and all
the children were provided with a RSPB recording sheet.
They then all created a poster to display in a prominent
place, to try and encourage people to join in with the Birdwatch. They included
the relevant details and tried to make an eye-catching design.
Once these were complete the children made their own
‘Bird Bingo’ cards, showing nine birds of their choice from the recording
sheet. They could write, draw or cut out pictures of the birds they had chosen.
We then had two games of Bingo, with Colin providing a clue to each bird drawn
so that the children learnt some bird facts whilst enjoying the game. One child
won the first game and the second was an amazing draw between the remaining
children, so they were all able to choose a sheet of stickers as a prize!
To finish there was a choice of three activities and all
the children managed to complete as many of these as they wished. The
activities were:
A bird feeder ‘kebab’, threading food items onto a wire
kebab, which was then twisted into a hanging circular feeder.
A half coconut shell feeder, which was filled with a
mixture of fat, oats and various items to tempt the birds.
A bird i-dial identifier to help with bird ID during the
Big Garden Birdwatch.
All the children were encouraged to bring and share their
Birdwatch results at the next meeting.
This is great, Biff. It is often said it is important to engage children with wildlife, but I think they are naturally interested and we teach them to disengage. I love how it is something they look at when at home to report back.
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