2012-2013 Year in Pictures

Better late than never...right?  Here are pictures from our field trip this year..  I love these kiddos and will miss them terribly.  They brought many laughs and smiles to my face.

Life Cycle of the Chicken

This week in science we learned about the life cycle of the chicken. We read some really cool books and learned some new vocabulary. It takes about 21 days for the egg to hatch. We learned when the chick is ready to hatch they chip the shell with their egg tooth. Baby chicks are called pullets. We watched a video of a chick hatching. Then we followed up by making an anchor chart of the cycle. We got to use glue and paint so it was the funniest project ever.

As an added bonus my very sweet Uncle Bill brought his baby Rhode Island Red and Americana chicks. They were only one week old. We all got a chance to hold them. One even escaped and ran around the room! It was very exciting!

Thank you Uncle Bill for visiting the class!

Cloud Watching

This week we enjoyed Little Cloud by Eric Carle. I love this unit! First, Eric Carle is simply amazing. Second, we get to cloud watch!

I start by telling a childhood memory of mine. I was lucky to have grandparents who lived on a farm. My grandfather had a huge garden where he grew many different kinds of fruits and vegetables. During the summer I remember going to the garden with him and helping him. I would also lay and look at the clouds and watch them change into anything I could imagine. That is why I love Little Cloud. It brings back a wonderful time in my youth.

So after we read the book, we talk about how to cloud watch. We model it in the room.

Then for the fun part. We go outside and cloud watch. The weather wasn't ideal for cloud watching, so we had to stretch our imaginations.

We made our clouds by using a mixture of shaving cream and glue. Then we wrote about what our cloud changed into. The whole class did such a great job. We displayed it at Open House.