Our class ducklings have become the talk of the school. Other classes are popping in to view our little celebrities and we are pretty proud.
Ask your child what kind of ducklings we have...we did a Google search today to compare the characteristics of our little ones to pictures on the internet. We have Mallards!
If you have any small boxes (cereal, cracker boxes are perfect) we would love to use them for workshop time. Thank you!
There was much excitement in Room 4 as we introduced the students to their 3 little friends. Cabbage, Pickle and Pepper put on a show, drinking their water and eating their food, and generally just being very cute. Ask your child if they can tell you any details about the hatching...we watched it on video!
One very popular game will be back at the school carnival. The Cake Walk!!!
This game is a different version of musical chairs - and the lucky winner takes home a cake.
We are looking for cake/cupcake donations for this game. Please can all cake or cupcake donations be brought to school on the 22 June either in the morning with your child or in the afternoon at pickup. Thank you so much
Our first duckling hatched this morning!
Ms. Melbourn and I were lucky to witness the big event...and catch it on video! I can't seem to figure out how to attach a video to the blog, but here are some pictures of our bundle of joy...
We have eggs pipping!
Last night Ms Melbourn noticed the first sign of a crack in one egg. We arrived this morning to find the crack had evolved into a chip out of the shell, and a pip in one other egg. We all got up close to watch the action through the incubator, with the egg occasionally rocking and the dark little feathers showing through the small hole. Babies are on their way!
As tomorrow is a professional day, I told our little duckling watchers in Room 4 that I will post a few pics of the developments tomorrow. Be sure to check in!
Day 27 of Duckling Watch and still no action! We are on 'eggshells' so to speak, waiting for the first pipping. We looked at the instructions around setting up our brooder to be prepared for the ducklings. Ask your child how the brooder works and what they thought about the duck food.
Tomorrow is the last school day of the week, as we have a professional development day on Friday.
Our duckling egg incubator is now on lockdown...ask your child if they can explain why we change the final few days of incubation, and why we can't lift the lid now until hatching starts!
We are excited to watch for pipping over the next few days!
Reminder that there is no school for students on Friday June 9th.
We invited our buddy class to come to Room 4 and observe us candling duck eggs today. We explained how the incubator keeps the eggs warm and how we are on the countdown to ducklings! Ask your child how the eggs looked different today...the embryos are taking up more space! We ended our buddy time with some shared reading.
180 'school days' ago, we started our journey in Grade One together...and now it all wraps up tomorrow with our last day of school! ...
