Everybody Knows that the Bird is a Word

Since it’s FINALLY getting warm here, Truman and I had our morning coffee on the patio and looked for birds.

My son’s become quite the bird enthusiast ever since his uncle bought him the book Birding for Children by Art Minton and illustrated by Patrick Grogan. Truman has not only memorized what each of the birds looks like, he also knows that Flickers are zygodactyls and Chickadees would like gymnastics.

We’ve been doing a lot of bird watching lately. Last weekend Truman found the Sibley’s bird book on our porch and spent much of the afternoons studying new birds and their migration patterns. Now that’s just…interesting.

My fellow parenting blogger Mary Emma Allen has some great ideas about getting your kids interested in birds by having kids write a poem or story about birds.

Since Truman’s not ready to pen his own work just yet, we decided to make up bird songs. After rhyming a bit with the word bird, things got a bit…off color for my soon-to-be Kindergartener. So I reeled him in with the Ramones version of Surfin’ Bird. Perfect, since we are headed to the beach in a few days.

If you’re not up on your Ramones tunes, you can go to www.jango.com and create your own radio station for the Ramones. Be sure to select Surfin’ Bird since any one of a number of Ramones tunes will start playing when you click over. A word of warning … you may not want to play Beat on the Brat in the presence of your child.

Photos, JWJourney