chick work

Having eggs in our classroom provided authentic learning experiences - from our predictions and developing theories about egg size to actual measurement data and graphing. On Tuesday we had 14 chicks hatched and investigated two math problems;

We started with 26 eggs at the beginning and 14 eggs have hatched. How many eggs didn't hatch?

14 chicks are in the bin. How can you show this?

With the eggs hatching throughout Monday and Tuesday, we incorporated more language and representation into our chick work. Through our morning message, I invited the children to describe a chick using ONE word. We reread our collection of words in the form of a poem on Friday and the children drew a picture of a chick to go with our poem.

During academic choice, one of our new choices was to observe one of the chicks in a small clear bin and carefully draw it - following choice Inez and Whitney shared their "scientific chick drawings" with their peers.