Book: What Makes a Bird a Bird by May Garelick Description: What is the one thing that makes a bird a bird? Read this book to find out! Then explore the question more after the book reading.

• What makes birds similar? What makes them different? Using color pictures of a Northern Cardinal and a Ruby-throated Hummingbird, lead a discussion about how they are alike and different. Add a third bird (e.g., Blue Jay) and compare it to the first two

• Make a bookmark. Make copies on cardstock paper using the feather bookmark template. Have children color in the feather on one side, and write the question (What makes a bird a bird?) on the other side.

➢ Bird Images or Birdsleuth cards

➢ Bookmark template