Pajarito- Connecting indoor and outdoor learning

I have a bird feeder outside my classroom window with a basic common bird field guide.  One of the most common visitors are Chickadees.  They will even stand at the top of the feeder and peek in at us when there are no seeds in the feeder.

I love the imagination of young learners.  They believe that animals can talk and even write letters.  This is where Pajarito comes in.  He is a Chickadee who lives around our school and is able to hear what we are learning in our class by using a magic birdhouse.  

He writes us weekly letters and delivers them to a special mailbox.  When the flag is up the kid know there is a new letter, and sometimes a book. 

Pajarito gives us the inside scoop on what to look for when we are on our nature adventures.