LESSON 50 BIRDS

BIRDS

Look-and-Say words

Sound-and-Say words

1. This little girl's name is May.

2. Every year, birds come to her garden to build their nests in the trees.

3. May likes to watch them.

4. The first day they get twigs. They make them firm with bits of hair, straw and string.

5. The birds carry these in their beaks. How busy they are and how happy!

They chirp all day long.

6. After the third day, when the nest is made, the mother bird will begin to lay her eggs.

7. She will not stir from them, till her babies come out.

8. Then the father bird is kept very busy.

He finds the food for the babies and their mother.

9. See how he whirls in the air, as he darts to catch a fly.

Now he sees a grub down in the dirt.

10. When the babies are fed, he sits near the nest and sings to them.

11. He will teach them to fly, when they are older.