We read The Extraordinary Egg. It's a cute egg book about 3 frogs that find a "chicken egg" ask your kiddos what kind of egg it really was. We cut an egg up and then tried to put it back together with bandaids. (Such an awesome fine motor activity... bandaids are hard to open!) We then "read" Humpty Dumpty as we glued on a Humpty Dumpty printout. It was so cute listening to them all repeat it, but my very favorite was the little boy that called him "Humpty DuDumpty" :)
We started our morning with our new favorite free choice activity... cutting pictures from our super cool MO Conservation magazines. We read a silly book today called The Cow that Laid an Egg. What will happen if we stand on an egg? was the question we asked the kiddos today. None of them actually thought we could do this without breaking an egg! So, we tried it and even though we did break a few most were able to walk on the eggs without breaking them!!
We read Chickens Aren't the Only Ones. We taught Big Emilea a new word today... she did not know that animals that lay eggs are called oviparous. We practiced our cutting skills by cutting out pictures of animals from our cool MO Conservation magazines donated to us by K's grandma! Thank you so much! We then sorted our animals by Oviparous or Not Oviparous. They loved this so much they asked to cut again during afternoon free choice. They are having so much fun exploring eggs! We also brought in our incubator with eggs today. They were started on Thursday, April 20th and we could start seeing them hatch as early as May 10th! It normally takes 21 days but can happen as early as 19 or as late as 23. We also celebrated a Birthday today! Thank you for sharing cupcakes with us, and Happy Birthday!
This week we will be learning about oviparous animals. We read What's Inside the Egg? We learned about a few animals that hatch from eggs and named as many things as we could think of. We also had a discussion about bats, because one of the kiddos named a bat when we talked about all birds hatching from eggs. We talked about how bats are not birds, but mammals and do not lay eggs. This led to a bat discussion, because this group loves bats! (So do I... anything that eats up to 1,000 mosquitoes a night is a pretty cool if you ask me!) So if your kiddo came home talking about things that hatch from eggs and bats now you know why!
We started a science experiment today. We are turning an egg into a rubber egg by putting it in a jar of vinegar!
