Meet Our New Additions

When I arrived at school this morning, I heard the sound of peeping coming from the incubator.  I went to find a couple of friends who were at SAC before school to help me.

   

We discovered tow of our four eggs had hatched overnight!!  Everyone was so excited and couldn't wait to peek inside the incubator when they got to school.

   

   

Now we had some work to do.  The chicks can't stay in the incubator forever, so we needed to prepare a habitat for them while they are in our classroom.

   

Then we got on with our morning.  Here we were doing Guided Reading about the life cycle of chickens during our Managed Independent Learning time.

   

Then right before lunch, we received a special delivery of six more chicks from Fluegel's.  These chicks are a little older than the two that hatched overnight, and they are all yellow.  We will share these with all of the kindergarten classrooms.  We took ours out of the incubator and put them in the new habitat with the others.  It took them a while to get used to each other!

   

After specialists time, we decided it was time to be scientists and observe some chick behaviors.  We took them out of the box and watched closely.

   

   

We watched them eat.  We also noticed that they are pretty fast runners.  They peep really loud when they wander away from their flock of friends.  Then we had a chance to touch them.  They were very soft and fuzzy.

   

   

   

Then, right before I went home for the evening, I heard more peeping.  Guess what?

We had another egg hatch.  The chick was peeping really loud and then seemed to be resting when I left.  Hopefully it is ready to join the rest of the flock in the box habitat tomorrow morning.  We will also get to hold the chicks tomorrow...if we want to!  What a great day in kindergarten!!

Carnival Raffle Basket

Thank you so much to everyone who contributed in any way to our classroom carnival raffle basket.  It turned out really nice and I am so grateful for all the donations we received.  Special thanks to our clerk, Miss Becky, for helping out with the decorating, delivering and the list for this project.  As you can see by the itemized list, there are some nice things in this fire pit basket.  Whoever wins this basket will surely enjoy it.  Be sure to check this and all the classroom baskets out in the library during the school carnival this Friday evening.

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Popcorn and Fun!

It was so beautiful on Friday afternoon, we decided to enjoy our popcorn from the Student Council Deep Portage fundraiser outdoors!  Everyone enjoyed a popcorn snack and some extra recess time on the playground.  Thanks to the Northview Student Council for coordinating this fun snack for us!

   

   

The popcorn was great and we had fun on the playground!

Excitement is Building...

As you might imagine, the excitement in pour classroom is building.  With any luck at all, we should have some baby chicks hatching in our classroom on Tuesday or Wednesday of this coming week.  Fingers crossed!!  In anticipation of this big event, we did a project involving a baby chick popping out of an egg with a poem, that goes like this...

Our Baby Chick

Peck, peck, peck 

On the warm, white egg.

Out comes a neck,

Out comes a leg.

How does a chick

Who's not been about

Discover the trick

Of how to get out?

   

   

   

   

   

Stay tuned for any baby chick developments!

Writer's Workshop

This week, we were working very hard in Writer's Workshop.  These writers are learning to stretch their stories over more than one page and are all beginning to write in booklets.  One of the best parts of our Writer's Workshop each day is our sharing.  We share our writing in a variety of ways, and this week we had many of our students share using the document camera.  This gives students the opportunity to speak in front of their peers and "teach" them something they learned or tried in their own stories.  When a student is finished sharing, they ask tell the group that they are ready for questions and comments.  At that time, students from the group ask questions or make comments about the student's work.  Here are some photos of Writer's Workshop this week.