Have a great Shabbat, and don't forget to feed the birds this week (before
Shabbat, of course...!) it's a tradition.
My children enjoyed paint the birdcases and collect seeds and bread to give to the bird on Erev Shabbat
"Even the birds chirped and fluttered their wings when the Jewish people
sang and the little
children picked the buds off the sea plants and fed them to the chirping
birds."
Long ago, in the days of the famed rabbi, the Maharal of Prague, the children of the city looked forward eagerly to Shabbat of the Torah portion of Beshalach. Even the cold European winter could not keep them home on this Shabbat.
After the story was told, the teachers, following the rabbi's
instructions, gave the children buckwheat grains which they tossed to
the birds and the hens below. "Just like the children fed the birds at
the splitting of the sea," the children of Prague called out with
delight.
Then a hush swept over the roof of the synagogue. Everyone turned
toward the beloved leader of Prague. The Maharal himself had joined
them, and now he blessed the children. "May you merit to bring your
children to Torah, marriage, and good deeds," the Rabbi said.
This was the custom that the Maharal encouraged in ancient Prague. 
