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Baby Bird hatches from his egg but cannot find his mother who has left the nest to find food. He asks various farm animals if they are his mother, but none of them are. Feeling sad and lost, Baby Bird is found by Grandmother who carries him back to his nest. Grandmother waits and sees Mother Bird return with food, reuniting Baby Bird with his real mother.

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Baby Bird Manual Web Version

Baby Bird hatches from his egg but cannot find his mother who has left the nest to find food. He asks various farm animals if they are his mother, but none of them are. Feeling sad and lost, Baby Bird is found by Grandmother who carries him back to his nest. Grandmother waits and sees Mother Bird return with food, reuniting Baby Bird with his real mother.

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Story Baby Bird finds his mother

Once upon a time there was a Mother Bird and she built a beautiful You will probably find that the children
nest in a big tree. She laid an egg in her nest and sat on it to keep it identify very closely with Baby Bird and
warm. Mother Bird sat in her nest, on her egg for a long time. But enjoy acting out his role in the story. You
she got very hungry. She wanted to go out and find a fat juicy worm can say, “Can you shake your hands like
Baby Bird’s wings?” and “Look up and
to eat. So what do you think she did? Yes, Mother Bird flew away to
down and all around like Baby Bird”
find worms. and “Show me how you look when
you feel sad like Baby Bird.”
Do you know what happened while she was away? Baby Bird was in
the little egg but he wanted to come out. He tapped the inside of the
egg with his beak. Then he tapped again and made a little hole. He
pushed his beak through the hole and the egg broke, and out came my mother”. He walked on, saying, “Where is my mother? I must find
Baby Bird! my mother.”

He was so pleased he shook his little wings. Baby Bird looked around Soon he met a goat. “Goat, are you my mother?” he asked the goat.
for his mother and said, “Where is my mother?” Baby Bird looked up “Baaa baaa” said Goat and shook his hairy head. “Come and eat
and down and all around, but he could not see her. sweet grass with me.” “No thank you,” said Baby Bird, “I must find my
mother.” Baby Bird walked on saying, “Where is my mother? I must
“I will go and find my mother,” said Baby Bird. Do you know what
find my mother.”
he did? He stepped right out of the nest and, of course, he couldn’t
fly yet because he was still too small. He fell and fell and fell with a The next animal he met was a pig. “Pig, are you my mother?” asked
bump! on the ground. He was a strong and brave little bird, so he Baby Bird hopefully. “I am not your mother but you can come and
stood up and shook himself, and went off to find his mother. roll in the mud with me, snort-snort.” said Pig. “No thank you!” said
Baby Bird, “I must find my mother.”
The first animal he saw was a cow. “Cow, are you my mother?” he
asked the cow. “Moooo,” said Cow. “I’m not your mother, but I will Baby Bird was feeling sad. He thought to himself, am I ever going to
give you some milk”. “No thank you,” said Baby Bird, “I must find find my mother? Just then Grandmother was walking down the path

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with her basket. She heard a little voice saying, “Tweet-tweet.” She
didn’t know that Baby Bird was saying, “Where is my mother?”

What do you think Grandmother did? Listen and I will tell you. She
picked up Baby Bird and put him in her basket. “You look lost,” said
Grandmother. “I know where your mother is.” She walked down
the path towards the trees. Grandmother found the nest and very
carefully put Baby Bird back into the nest. Then she sat down on a
rock and watched. Do you know what happened?

Very soon Mother Bird flew back to the nest with a long worm in
her mouth. Baby Bird called excitedly, “Are you my mother? I know
you are my mother!” She said, “Yes, I am your mother.” He opened
his little beak, and ate up the worm. Mother Bird settled back with
her baby in the nest. Baby Bird was very happy to be back with his
mother.

In this story there are a couple of natural


And that is the end of the story. opportunities for you to encourage the
children to predict what will happen next
in the story. This is one good way to get
children to think about story flow and
the sequence of events.

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