Happy Monday! The Question of the Day was: Will a chick hatch today? As you have no doubt heard by now, the answer to that question turned out to be YES! There was a great deal of excitement before that took place however.
The boys and girls began the day with a math activity sheet to practice showing the same amount of money using different combinations of coins. They used play money as an aid to do this. We looked at ways that coins could be exchanged for other coins with the same value. This lesson was extended later in the day when the students were tasked with determining different ways to show $1.00.
After our morning meeting, some eagle eyed first graders spotted that there were "cracks" on some of the eggs. Everyone peeked in the incubator through the window to see them. I also held the lid open just a bit and some students could hear peeping sounds. In the afternoon, when everyone was absolutely quiet, I briefly opened the lid completely. Everyone, even those on the other side of the classroom, could hear the peeping!
The day was filled with many egg developments and discussions. However, we also read "The Mud Family" in our Junior Great Books for the second time. We shared and discussed some wonderings from the story and then wrote about why we thought the main character did not want to leave with her family.
In addition, during social studies, we learned more about Antarctica from our Map Champ Atlas books. This lesson was interrupted by a chick hatching so we will get back to it another day!
The boys and girls learned what happened in the eggs on Days 18, 19, and 20. I showed them photos of how I prepared the incubator for hatching day and how I set up the brooder. They added notes to their egg books and egg pictures to their egg calendars. We stopped more than once to check out what was happening in the incubator. By afternoon, there were seven eggs with pips. There was one chick in particular that really wanted to meet us. He/she kept pipping and pipping until finally just as we were getting ready to go home, he/she made it out of the shell. The crowd went wild!! Everyone was able to walk by the incubator and see the chick hatch. What an amazing way to end the day!
After school ended, a second chick joined the first one at 3:30. They are now both in the incubator resting, getting their feathers dry, wobbling around a bit, and resting some more. Hatching is hard work!
Here are photos of the first chick that hatched today. Who knows what will happen overnight and tomorrow!
The boys and girls began the day with a math activity sheet to practice showing the same amount of money using different combinations of coins. They used play money as an aid to do this. We looked at ways that coins could be exchanged for other coins with the same value. This lesson was extended later in the day when the students were tasked with determining different ways to show $1.00.
After our morning meeting, some eagle eyed first graders spotted that there were "cracks" on some of the eggs. Everyone peeked in the incubator through the window to see them. I also held the lid open just a bit and some students could hear peeping sounds. In the afternoon, when everyone was absolutely quiet, I briefly opened the lid completely. Everyone, even those on the other side of the classroom, could hear the peeping!
The day was filled with many egg developments and discussions. However, we also read "The Mud Family" in our Junior Great Books for the second time. We shared and discussed some wonderings from the story and then wrote about why we thought the main character did not want to leave with her family.
In addition, during social studies, we learned more about Antarctica from our Map Champ Atlas books. This lesson was interrupted by a chick hatching so we will get back to it another day!
The boys and girls learned what happened in the eggs on Days 18, 19, and 20. I showed them photos of how I prepared the incubator for hatching day and how I set up the brooder. They added notes to their egg books and egg pictures to their egg calendars. We stopped more than once to check out what was happening in the incubator. By afternoon, there were seven eggs with pips. There was one chick in particular that really wanted to meet us. He/she kept pipping and pipping until finally just as we were getting ready to go home, he/she made it out of the shell. The crowd went wild!! Everyone was able to walk by the incubator and see the chick hatch. What an amazing way to end the day!
After school ended, a second chick joined the first one at 3:30. They are now both in the incubator resting, getting their feathers dry, wobbling around a bit, and resting some more. Hatching is hard work!
Here are photos of the first chick that hatched today. Who knows what will happen overnight and tomorrow!