Robins

Spring has sprung around here lately, we supposedly had the warmest March on record, and we are starting to see lots of robins outside! Continuing on the review of Super 3 with my Kinders, we talked about robins this time. I created a smartboard notebook with pictures of robins from Flickr Creative Commons along with each step of the Super 3. We again brainstormed questions of things we might want to learn and ways we could get information. They really had clearer ideas this time. I liked that some of the ideas for the sources of information included observation of a nest, my brain, and owners of birds in addition to all the usual suspects like books, websites, etc. After talking about the Plan step, we moved on to Do and used this website for information. Then, the students drew a robin using the descriptions and pictures we saw and wrote sentences about what they learned. We ran out of time before the Review step though. I hate that that step often gets left off. Here are some of their works in progress, some of their pictures showed even more information like nests with 3-4 blue eggs and eating worms.

Robins eat berries. Babies eat worms. They lay 3 or 4 eggs.

Robins eat worms. Robins eat berries.

Robins eat berries and worms. Robins have up to two sets. (We talked about how robins lay two clutches of eggs each spring.)

Robins eat berries. Robins lay their eggs in a nest.

Robins lay eggs in a nest. Robins eat worms.