Michael received a surprise parcel through the post from his friend Ernest. Ernest is still exploring Antarctica and he heard that Michael was going to be learning all about birds at school so, he sent him a book about birds and a pair of binoculars.

Michael was thrilled with his book and binoculars but, he was a bit upset that he couldn’t read the book. However, he knows that the teachers will help him to read the book as he learns about birds and the boys and girls helped him to understand how you use binoculars. This made him very happy. He was scared when he looked through the binoculars at first because everybody looked like giants but, then one of the boys explained that binoculars make small  things in the distance appear much bigger.

This was such an exciting introduction to our, “Birds” topic and we are really enthusiastic to learn more.