Hummingbird Nature Study

Some mornings you hear it before you see it: a tiny whirring, then a flash of green and gold hovering in the empty air. We call this little visitor the Sky Jewel, and this study is our love letter to it.

Over 10+ Days of Discovery, your child studies the hummingbird’s needle beak and mirror-like gorget, the Figure-8 wing that lets it fly backwards, and a heart that races over 1,200 beats a minute. They build a walnut-shell nest wrapped in spider silk, run the Wing-Beat Olympics, and test nectar by touch. They travel back to the Aztec empire, where the hummingbird was a warrior of the sun, and cross the 500-mile Gulf of Mexico on the wings of a bird no heavier than a penny. They even paint like John Gould and copy a line of Emily Dickinson in their neatest hand.

It is science, history, geography, art, and poetry, all resting on one small creature. Every page is written and drawn by hand on our family farm, made to be printed, colored, folded, and loved.

Find our favorite supplies, book list, and optional extensions at farmschoolco.com/hummingbird-resources.