Egg-citing News!

 

On Monday afternoon Ms. Pavlicek came and put 8 eggs into our incubator. She had been caring for them in a giant incubator at the science center for 19 days. This meant that the chicks should hatch between Tuesday and Thursday (@21 days). When students left on Tuesday we only had four chicks and two eggs with pips in them.  When we all arrived on Wednesday morning there were six chicks! The students have been so excited by this process. Their observation journals are very detailed to document all the growth and changes the eggs have gone through to become chicks and how quickly the chicks are growing!  

Happy Birthday, Hoots, Certificates & Congratulations

 We celebrated Mark's birthday on Friday. He will be six on Sunday. Happy Birthday Mark! This week we made it to 90% as a class completion on ST Math. We had many students receive JiJi puzzle pieces for working so hard on the March Mathness Challenge from Mrs. Sheppard. We had a few students get to the next decade percentage on ST Math. We had many students earn Hoot cards this week and we had one student complete our monthly at home reading challenge.

Preparing for Our Chicks - Ms. P's Science Center Chick Show

 

We started learning about lifecycles in school. We looked at photos of Mrs. Parnell growing up and changing and then looked at photos of her daughter Lindsay growing and changing. We watched two short videos of Ms. P from the Science Center meeting with the farmer and getting the eggs and then we saw the giant incubator at the Science Center that will be taking care of the eggs until they hatch. We will be watching more videos about the chicks and how they are growing and changing in their eggs and then we will have eggs in our classroom incubator to watch the chicks hatch. We will be keeping a science observation journal to document the changes that the chicks will be going through. The students have been excited to learn about the chicks. We will make a craft of a chick hatching out of the egg we will write about our chicks. We will color our own spring eggs and next week the eggs will arrive and we will search for our sight words in eggs out on the field. We have egg mania at school!

On Tuesday, Ms. Pavlicek came to Pine Glen and did the Science Center Chick Show. Ms. P. showed us all the different parts of the egg and talked to us about the life cycle of a chicken. We got to meet two of Ms. P.'s chickens from her coop at her house, and Addie pretended to be the hen and then she sat on her clutch of 10 eggs! Student also participated in learning the different sizes of eggs laid by different birds. The students are very excited about the chicken eggs coming to our classroom on Monday, April 31st and the eggs should start hatching Tuesday - Thursday, April 1st- 3rd (after the 21 day incubation).