That's What Happens When It's Spring!
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Libby Rhoden's 1st Grade
Kruse Elementary School
Pasadena, Texas

Books we read:
Robin's Home by Jeannine Atkins
The Robins in Your Backyard by Nancy Carol Willis
A Nest Full of Eggs (Let's-Read-And-Find-Out-Science: Stage 1)
by Priscilla Belz Jenkins

Robin

You leave Pasadena all plump and fat

Eating this and eating that.

When you return you bring spring,

And fill our ears with your sing.

But you are thin,

Where have you been?

Don't they feed you up north?

an original by Sheena Halk, age 6

American Robin

Standards

(1.4)Scientific processes. The student uses age-appropriate tools and models to verify that organisms and objects and parts of organisms and objects can be observed, described, and measured.
(1.5)Science concepts. The student knows that organisms, objects, and events have properties and patterns.
(1.7)Science concepts. The student knows that many types of change occur.
(1.9)Science concepts. The student knows that living organisms have basic needs.

(1.18) Writing/purposes. The student writes for a variety of audiences and purposes and in a variety of forms.
(1.19) Writing/writing processes. The student selects and uses writing processes to compose original text.