In May of 2015, the KTOS Discover Birds Program visited Sevierville Primary School for the third consecutive year, enjoying an outstanding morning Discovering Birds with 280 second graders and their teachers.
You may enjoy seeing our morning activities, including a low pass over our heads by a magnificent Bald Eagle at
Sevierville Primary 2015. This posts revisits that day to show you how some of the students got ready for our visit!
As the program was coming to a close, Ms Kathy Porter, second grade teacher, caught my attention and showed me a bulletin board filled with her students' art and research. I was so happy she showed it to me!
In preparation for our upcoming Discover Birds Program, her students each selected a bird from anywhere in the world, researched the bird on the internet, drew the bird and wrote about what they learned. The results of their efforts were beautifully displayed as "Birds of a Feather Flock Together!"
I wanted to read every word and savor the art the way I would a gallery of art in a museum! Everyone's work was so creative! I will share a few of them here, but they were all wonderful!
Hummingbirds were a favorite bird selected. "Let me tell you about hummingbirds." one artist wrote. "A hummingbird sings with its wings."
"Some hover like bees." another wrote. "They lick nectar with its quick tongues. Bugs get licked too."
Some of the birds chosen were selected for their unique feathers or behavior.
"Male Peacocks find an enemy and they shoot their feathers up and it looks [like] eyes watching them."
"A Roseate Spoonbill is a wading bird. It has long legs to keep it high above the water. It also has a big beak to help it catch fish....A Roseate Spoonbill swings its beak underwater."
"The Yellow-billed Woodpecker eats only ticks and other bugs [on the animals] it rides. The animals it rides are giraffes, zebras and oxen. The Yellow-billed Woodpecker lives in Africa because the big animals it rides live there....They clean the heads of the animals they ride."
"Wild parrots live in North America, South America, Australia, Asia and Africa. The Macaws are the biggest parrots. Wild parrots screech when they try to talk....Many parrots wear brilliant green, yellow, red and blue."
"Flamingos are pink and reddish. They live in Asia, Africa and North America. They live near mud and water. Flamingos like to sit in water."
A big thank you to
Sevierville Primary School and Ms Porter for sharing their students' creative work with us!
Links and Resources:
Discover Birds Visits Sevierville Primary School
Sevierville Primary School
Discover Birds Activity Book
Discover Birds Curriculum Guide
Discover Birds in the Tennessee Conservationist
In May of 2015, the KTOS Discover Birds Program visited Sevierville Primary School for the third consecutive year, enjoying an outstanding morning Discovering Birds with 280 second graders and their teachers.
