1 Week Until Hatch Day!

Room 202 Kids are getting very anxious to meet their new feathered friends! We are on the one week countdown!!!

 

Our little ducks waiting to hatch...

 

Bella and Adri are writing about their excitement on the upcoming hatch day!

 

"Mother Duck" Brenden

Mother Ducks

Bailey

Megan

Zinnia

All about Eggs!

Thank you, Mrs. Morgan for giving us the Time for Kids magazines "egg" magazine!

 Duck Egg Observation Journal

These are illustrations of what our eggs looked like with and without ducks.

Allen plays the role of "Mother Duck"

Cadence the "Mother Duck"

Day 15- Candling

Day 15

We have learned that some eggs do not have ducks (or chickens) that grow inside, these are like the ones we buy from the grocery store.

Some eggs; however, do have ducks (or chickens) that grow inside. We do not buy these from the grocery store. These are purchased from farms that raise ducks and chickens.

We had a mixture, just to compare the difference between eggs with ducks and without.

The first picture you will see does not have a duck inside. It clearly looks like one from the grocery store.

The second picture has a duckling, that is becoming a bit crowded. Look closely at the picture and you will see the baby duck. We have labeled the parts we could identify.

 

 

No Baby Duck

How Sweet! A baby duckling is growing! It was sleeping this morning. Yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Roper and I could see the duckling "swimming" around inside the egg.

Make Way for Ducklings

We read Make Way for Ducklings about a mother and father Mallard Duck looking for a great place to raise their ducklings. In the next few weeks we will be creating an inviting and safe place for our ducklings, including their very own swimming pool!

Ellison

Mother Ducks

                                                                                Cade

Emily

 

Stay Tuned....

We will candle our eggs again tomorrow morning! According to our research, by days 14 and 15 you can see the baby duck "swimming" around inside the egg! How exciting. We will post pictures for you!

 

Embryo Rap

Day 10- An Egg is Quiet... but not for long!

Day 9 and 10 Mother Ducks

Sully

 

Hudson

 

Yesterday, we had a special guest in our room, Mrs. Dawn Mitchell. She is a fabulous writer and teacher. Mrs. Mitchell is currently working with teachers at OES on Writing Workshop and Inquiry Based Learning. She stopped by to teach a writing lesson on writing literary nonfiction books. She read the book, An Egg is Quiet. We know from studying insects this week, all kinds of creatures come from eggs!

 

 An Egg is Quiet by Dianna Aston and Sylvia Long

 

 

Here is diagram from the book. We learned about "labels" in a nonfiction text.

Embryo is our word of the week.

"Yo Yo, I'm the Embryo, I grow inside the YOlk!"

The yolk provides food for the embryo, while the egg white acts as a pillow.

Did you know that eggs have teeny tiny little holes that allow air to get in the egg?

Very Eggsteresting!

 

Our authors are writing away! Some of our titles are...

All Kinds of Eggs

What's Inside an Egg?

Camouflage Eggs

Eggs are Everywhere

Eggciting Eggs

"Mother Ducks"

Dimitry

Sara

Day 8- Candling the Eggs

Here we are candling the egg. I am shining a bright flashlight through the bottom of the egg.

 

Here is what we saw.

The "Blob" in the middle is our baby duck! We could see it "swimming" around inside the egg.

Day 8- Journaling

Here is a sample of our daily journal. This is an illustration of what Sully observed.  

Monday's Mother Ducks

Adri

"Mrs. Daniel, those eggs were really warm!"

 

I explained that our incubator's temperature is at 100 degrees.

Which is as hot as a REALLY HOT summer day!

Noah

 

 

Tomorrow is an exciting day for us! We are going to candle the eggs to see what is happening inside! Check back with us tomorrow afternoon.

Mother Duck pic and amphibians too!

Caleb is the Mother Duck this afternoon!

Not ducks- but we are studying the life cycles of animals. Mrs. Roper brought tadpoles from her pond yesterday. That afternoon we found a frog at recess. After researching, we found out that we have a Pickeral Frog. These frogs like wet areas, plants, and insects. During recess today, the students looked for rocks, tree bark, leaves, and insects to make our friend "Toady" feel right at home. These new friends will be in our immersion station as we look ahead to study amphibians in a few weeks!

 

Have a great weekend everyone! Thank you for sharing your child with us!

"Mother Ducks"

"Mother Ducks" - The mother duck turns her eggs to keep them warm.

 

 

Bella Kate

Jacob

Sophia

 

Check back with us next week!

Next week will be an exciting time for Room 202 Kids. We are going to candle the eggs. This means to shine a bright flash light through the egg to see what is happening inside. By the 7th day, you can see the duck life cycle begin. Around the 14th day, we will hopefully be able to see the baby duck swimming around in the egg. We will try our best to take pictures of this unique experience!

Turn, Turn, Turn the Eggs and Keep Them Nice and Warm!

We are turning our eggs twice every day! The mother duck turns her eggs to make sure they stay very warm on both sides. Today's mother duck is Ailani!
We have written X and O on both sides of the eggs. I asked the students why we needed the X and O. Here are a few answers:
"Tic Tac Toe" - Adri
"XOXO- Hugs and Kisses- We are giving them lots of love"- Sara
"X means dirty eggs and O means clean eggs"- Daniel


REALLY we are using X and O to remind us that we have turned them all each day.

Day 1

These are Pekin Ducks. This is what our feathered friends will look like as adults.

Meeting the eggs! We discussed how fragile the eggs are.

We put the eggs in the incubator to keep them warm. The incubator plays the role of the mother duck. 

This is our Hatch Day calendar. It takes 28 days for the duck to grow inside the egg before it hatches. We are on the countdown!

Our Feathered Friend Pledge

Before spring break, we wrote letters to Dr. Patterson persuading him to allow us to have ducks in our classroom. In our letters we promised that we would take great care of our ducks while learning all about their life cycle, habitat, and diet.

Dr. Patterson visited our classroom today and we made a pledge to him that we would take great care of our ducks while learning as much as we can about them.
Here is our pledge....

Feathered Friend Pledge

I promise to take care of my feathered friend.

I promise to read about, write about, and talk about what I am learning.

I promise to provide the proper food and shelter for my feathered friend.

I promise to control my excitement when around my feathered friend.

I promise to ask questions that will further my learning of my feathered friend.

I promise to help Mrs. Daniel and Mrs. Roper clean up after my feathered friend.

I promise to share what I am learning with my family and friends.

As an “All Star” student, I promise to learn all about our new feathered friend.