Living Things...

It is SPRINGtime and we are so excited to learn how plants grow!   This week we read Eric Carle's Tiny Seed and after we planted seeds of our own!   Our seeds are a bit funny, read more to find out why!

Lila Grace is pouring dirt into her cup!

Anna Claire

Jayden is scooping seeds to put on his dirt.

Jesse loved planting!

Margo

James

Mileigh

Johnson

Our cups (planters) have our face on them!!!

We planted grass seeds in them.  Once they grow, it will look like we have green hair!   Super cute! :)

Happy Spring!

Chicken Craftivity and a Special Visitor!

Last week, we learned all about fiction/non-fiction books AND chickens during our shared reading time!   Since we learned SO MANY new chicken facts, we wanted to record them!

Margo and Caitlyn

Caden and Lila Grace

Ryan and Emma Sue

Jayden

John and Annelise

James and Kaili

Ford and Jayden

Minha and Diya

Johnson and Jessica

Lucas and Jesse

Our work is hanging proudly over our incubator!

Close up :)

This is a song called "Baby Chickie" and I'm sure your kinder could sing it to you if you asked them to! :)

On Monday, we did not have specials and sweet Mrs. Bagwell, our reading coach, stopped by for a book and activity!

We had a ball! :)

Sea Turtle Construction...

Miss Hawkins bravely took on paper mache' for our sea turtle!   They've been working diligently each day to construct the body, and begin the process of paper mache'!  Here are a few pictures....

Jesse

Lucas

Johnson

Emma Sue

Lucas and Jesse (holding a flipper)

He's a big one!

Paper mache' begins!

Caitlyn, Kaili and Margo

FUN!

Let's get caught up!

Hello sweet parents and grandparents!   I promised last week that we'd resume regular blog postings this week!   Just when you promise something, something always happens!   We've been SUPER busy and I can't wait to get you all caught up!

Here. We. Go!
During Spring Break, I waited until Tuesday to put our eggs into the incubator (that way they wouldn't hatch on a weekend, when we are not here).   Here are a few pictures of our chicken adventures so far...

It only takes 21 days!!!

We have a chart hanging in our room with a picture of what the chick looks like inside for each of the 21 days.   Each day, we reveal that day's egg and record the results in our Chicken Observation Journal.

Sorry it's sideways, but this is the cover of our book!

Here are a few example pages...

James and Caden filling in their C.O.J.

Ford working on his C.O.J.

Margo and Kyla

Lila Grace and John

This is our incubator with our precious eggs inside!

The eggs are sitting in an egg turner that slowly rotates them.   I am SO very thankful for this wonderful invention!   Before I got one, I had to turn the eggs 4-5x a day!  So I would do three each day and then I'd come back at dinner time and after my kiddos were in bed (for 21 days)! :)   The whole experience is  SO WORTH IT!!!!!

I've hatched for the past three years and I have to say this is one of the most memorable teaching experiences I've ever had!!!!  

We only have 5 more days until hatch day!!!  Stay tuned!