In Winter and Spring of 1998, our class studied puffins. We learned a lot about puffins!!!! We even named our first step in writing process Puffin Prewrite. (Click on the words Puffin Prewrite to learn more about our Bird Print Writing Process)
We read two books about puffins. One was called The Night of the Pufflings by Bruce McMillan (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston 1995). It is the story of Puffins on Heimaey Island in Iceland. It has great pictures!
The other book was called Project Puffin: How We Brought Puffins Back to Egg Rock by Stephen W. Kress as told by Pete Salmansohn (Tibury House Publishers, Gardiner, Maine 1997). This book is a real story about how scientists brought puffins back to an island. We liked this story because we are trying to bring birds back to an island in a pond in our city. (Click on this picture of mallard ducks to link to our Water Habitat Web Pages)
We watched a video by the National Audubon Society called Puffin Adventures (Audubon's Animal Adventures, HBO Kids Video 1997). This video tells the story that is in the book Project Puffin.
We did a puffin report about what we learned:
Puffins
have huge appetites for fish. Puffins
can fly and dive in the ocean. Puffins
lay their eggs in burrows. Baby
puffins are called pufflings. Scientists
studied puffins on Seal Island, Maine. Then
they helped bring puffins back to Easter Egg Rock Island,
Maine. It
had been almost 100 years since puffins had lived
there. Now
puffins are living on that island
again.
We did paintings of Puffins.
First: We looked at a lot of pictures of puffins.
Second: We drew pencil sketches of puffins on newsprint paper.
Third: We did large drawings of puffins on art paper with our crayons.
Fourth: We painted over our crayon drawings with our watercolor paints.
Here are the puffin paintings we made:
We hope you enjoyed learning about our Puffin Bird Science!
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