This term, children have been settling into Rainforest Classroom. We have been reading ‘Owl Babies.’ Children built homes for their owl babies using sticks, twigs and blocks. They explored how the owlets would have felt when they woke up in their tree trunk to find their mother gone.
“1,2,3,4. 4 owls.”
“Owl Babies.”
“I spotted a feather. It’s an owl.”
“Too-whit, too-whit.”
“Birds in the nest and they poop and they make eggs.”
“They are up the tree. It’s a big tree trunk.”
“Mummy Owl is finding worms for baby owls.”
“My mummy has gone to the market to buy food.”
“Baby owls are scared. They want their mummy.”
“Maybe there’s a fox or a lion. A squirrel or cat or sheep in the forest.”
“We can make a home for the owls.”
“We need some feathers in it.”
“We want a house because the fox is going to eat us.”
“Some sticks, twigs and sticks.”
“How about branches?”
“The owls stand on a branch. They’re scared. They want their mummy.”
“The fox is gonna come. They want mummy.”
“Mummy! You’re back!”
“I missed you mummy. Let’s fly, flap.”
