What bird lays large white eggs that we like to eat for breakfast? (Hen.)
What bird likes to eat the farmer’s corn? (Crow.)
What bird says, “Coo, coo, coo?” (Pigeon.)
Wednesday
Talk about the birds and nest-building. Talk about the different kinds of nests: the robin’s; the oriole’s, hung from the limb of a tall tree; the bobolink’s, built in the grass; the sparrow’s, tucked under the eaves; the swallow’s, built in the barn, etc.
Thursday
Read the following poem to the children, and have them tell the story back to you:
THE JOLLY OLD CROW
On the limb of an oak sat a jolly old crow,