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The Child’s World’s
revised edition of The Word Bird Series is divided into these
curriculum areas; Word Bird’s Word House books, School Day
Books, Short Vowel Adventures and Word Bird’s Readers. Using
word puzzles, word houses, and games, Word bird playfully
teaches vocabulary, values, colors, months of the year, days of
the week, and much more.
 Word
Bird's Magic Wand - Word Bird uses a pencil as a magic wand
to write and learn many new words at school such as, a birthday
message, signs for a zoo, and a note in Duck’s lunch box.
Word Bird and others write stories and make books. Miss Beary
gives everyone a surprise button that reads,” I am an author”.
 Word
Bird's New Friend - Going into a classroom for the first
time is a big challenge for Little Kangaroo. Word Bird
helps by being friendly and kind. The school day is filled
with many exciting activities including a potato- sack race on
the playground. Page 32 has a chart on How To Win a Friend.
 Word
Bird Builds a City - Blocks are children’s
construction tools for creative play. In a
kindergarten classroom, blocks disappear from the
shelves as children build roads, houses, boats, train
stations, zoos, and every kind of building. This
imaginative play helps them learn size, shapes, colors
and ,textures. They make signs, learn new words, and
interact with each other. I wrote
the book, Word Bird Builds A City ,with the
children as they built a city out of blocks right in my
classroom.
Children today have
many ready made toys that leave little room for
imagination. Blocks are fluid. They can turn into
anything a child
can imagine. The text also expands
vocabulary as a young reader finds the things
that belong in each new building in the city. Your
children will add even more buildings to their block
city.

Word
Bird’s Rainy-Day Dance
- Along with creative
play, creative movement and dramatics are
hallmarks of the early childhood years. Children
are learning many ways to communicate with their
bodies. They love to play pretend. A young child
watches an airplane zoom overhead. Suddenly his
arms are outstretched and he zooms around
pretending to fly like the airplane in the sky.
Word Bird’s Rainy Day Dance is one example of a
creative dance story about digging and planting
a garden on a spring day. Children love to
dramatize the sequence from seeds to plants,
fruits, and veggies.
In the book, everyone has a part.
Children are also learning about working
together and creating a story themselves, as
they move with enough space
to sway, turn, twirl,
tiptoe ,and bend, as they dance.
 Word
Bird Asks What? What? What?
- Young children are full of
questions as they discover the world
of people and things. They ask:
what? why? how? where” and when?
many times each day. Children are
actively engaged in learning, not
only what we say but what we do.
This book, helps children
identify some animal habitats in
a pond, the woods, a field, a
farm, a park, and at a city zoo.
Young children are beginning to
label and classify animals.
They are very interested in
finding out where and how
animals live. After reading this
book, many children will be
interested in what animals live
in the
mountains, the hot
jungle, on the sandy desert, and
in other places around
the world.
For schools and libraries, Child's
World distributes the Word Bird Books online at
Word Bird's Magic Wand and
Word Bird's New Friend. |