Chicken Visitors
/Otters were excited to discover chicken visitors in our classroom today. Ms. Aja’s family is raising chicks. The chicks, Moon and Rosie, got to visit the classroom today. Otters observed chicken behavior and had a chance to hold the chicks. They asked several great questions as well. Teachers discovered that students have some misconceptions about animal classes. Many children classified the chickens as mammals or as simultaneously birds and mammals. We will be researching and discussing similarities and differences between mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, and amphibians in the coming days.
This afternoon we continued researching our inspiring individuals by determining and writing about their jobs and accomplishments. Our engineers are already creating more complex structures out of the Quadrilla materials during choice time. Outside we discovered part of a bird nest that had fallen out of a tree. At our life science table Mr. Mark brought in a kale plant from his garden. On the underside of a couple of leaves, cabbage white butterflies had laid eggs. The eggs are tiny and we had to be extremely gentle when examining the leaves. We are going to continue observing the eggs over the next few weeks to see whether caterpillars will emerge.
