These days you can't miss the birds and we enjoy them daily. We read about them. We have little stuffed birds that make bird calls. We have a favorite bird cd by Elizabeth Mitchell You Are My Little Bird Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. We also sing/chant about them:
Way up in the sky
The little birds fly
Way down in the nest
The little birds rest
With a wing on their left
And a wing on their right
The little birds lay down for the night
Shhh! They're sleeping.
Then up comes the sun
The dew falls away
"Good morning,"" Good morning!"
The little birds say.
I am not sure who wrote this song. I learned it over ten years ago as a Daycamp Naturalist at Discovery Park and it still sticks in my head. Add in hand motions and for older kids they can mimic and repeat each line. Change tone of voice to give lines expression.
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