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Thursday, March 28, 2024
Preparing for Our Chicks
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 made a craft of a chick hatching out of the egg then we wrote about our chicks. We colored 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!
Color Mixing
We started learning about the primary colors at school. We did a science experiment and watched to see what would happen when we used six containers and put water and food coloring in three of the containers (water + red dye in the first, empty second container, water + yellow dye in the third container then an empty container, next we added water + blue dye then an empty container). A big long paper towel snake was made then dipped into all the containers. We watched the dye get absorbed by the paper towel and it created a rainbow when the primary colors mixed together.
Still to come we will create our own color mixing papers. We have been reading lots of color books and we watched another color mixing experiment on YouTube. We will be coloring our own styrofoam eggs soon. This activity will be a nice way to culminate our Chick hatching/lifecycle unit and our color mixing exploration. We also read Rechenkah's Eggs and watched the author and illustrator, Patricia Polacco create her Ukrainian eggs. She used hot wax when she used the different dyes.
Science Center Chick Show
On Thursday, 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 and then Ms. P. dressed some of the students as parts of the chicken life cycle- egg, chick, young adult, adult. The students are very excited about the chicken eggs coming to our classroom on Monday, April 1st and the eggs should start hatching Tuesday - Thursday, April 2nd- 4th (after the 21 day incubation).
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