Stanley’s Bird Count: Activities

Shared Reading · Year 4. An adult reads the questions and clues aloud. Children can talk, point, sign or choose an answer. For Jumbled Words, show the matching vocabulary word and build it together; children do not need to read independently.

Vocabulary

Read these five words from the story. Talk about what they mean.

scale: The value represented by each unit in a chart or drawing.
represented: Stood for or showed something.
compared: Looked at things together to find likenesses or differences.
common: Seen or found often.
record: Information kept so it can be used or checked later.

Jumbled Words

Use the clue to make a word from the story. Drag the letters with a mouse or finger, or tap a letter and then a space.

Put the story in order

Drag the pictures into order from first to last with a mouse or finger. Or tap a picture, then tap where it should go. Use arrow keys to move a focused picture.

Tell the story

Retell the story in order. Explain the problem, the method the characters tried and the evidence that their solution worked. Build bars of three, two and one equal blocks, with a key of one block equals five birds. Read 15, 10 and 5, compare differences and check a total of 30. Explain why this is a sample count, not every bird in the park.