So how is a chicken like a dinosaur? Honeybees know that not all of the dinosaurs were giants. Some of them were small like chickens.
Want to sing a chicken song? Do you have a shaky egg.
Chickens don’t have teeth. Did you know that? They can’t really chew up their food, so they have an extra organ called a gizzard that is a big muscle that helps grind up food. They swallow small pieces of grit and gravel to help grind up their food. Paleontologists have discovered that dinosaurs sometimes swallowed larger rocks to help digest their food. Those rocks are called GASTROLITHS. Wouldn’t it be interesting to hold a rock that had been in the belly of a dinosaur. We have one at our school.
Here is a dinosaur fossil, and the white arrow is pointing to the stomach stones.
I think there are a lot of birds today that look and act like dinosaurs. Have you ever seen an Ostrich or a Cassowary?
Let’s look at some more friendly birds. My friend Alison is a magical artist, musician, and storyteller, and I want her to come and visit our school one day. She came last year and talked to us about her bunnies. She has therapy bunnies and takes them for people to hold when they aren’t feeling well.
Wouldn’t you love to have a duck and make it beautiful spring necklaces.
Would you like to read a duck story?
Or what about this story. Is it a duck or a rabbit? Can you draw these too?
I have some duck eggs and chicken eggs in my fridge. Have you ever seen a duck egg? It’s a little bigger than a chicken egg. The brown egg is the chicken egg from my chickens and the white egg is a duck egg from Glade Road Growing.
Are you braving the big wind today to get outside. Gather some flowers and make a necklace for yourself like Miss Alison’s duck. Do you have a big plastic needle? Or a rounded tapestry needle? You can sew a leaf and blossom necklace this weekend.
Honeybees, put your hands in the air. Wherever you are we wish you well.
