Oviparous Animal Life Cycles-{Day 3: All About Chicks}

Umm, I thought yesterday was busy, but gee whiz! Today was even busier! Sure makes for a fast day though, so I'm not really complaining. ;) 

Today we learned all about chicks and the chicken life cycle, and we couldn't have picked a better day to begin studying them because our chicks started to hatch this morning! Here is how our day went...

We began our chicken life cycle study by getting on the MyOn app on our iPads (have I ever mentioned how much I love that each of my students have a device?!) and listening to the story Hatching Chicks. The story talked about hatching eggs in a classroom. How perfect could that be, right? {If you haven't heard of the app MyOn, do yourself a favor and go check it out RIGHT NOW!...or after you finish reading about our chick day.)

We also listened to the story Chickens. Both stories offered great information on chickens and their life cycle, and was a great introduction into our chicken activities.

After everyone finished listening to the two stories, we met at the rug where we have all of our meetings and completed a can, have, are chart on chicks as a whole group.

We then discussed the chicken life cycle and how a chicken begins as an egg, then a chick hatches from the egg and grows into an adult chicken. We then drew and labeled the life cycle, which was then turned into an adorable chick craft I created. Click here to get this activity for yourself.

You can definitely tell we are learning all about oviparous animals just from looking at my hallway, huh? 

Like I said before, along with all this chicken life cycle learning, we also had our chicks begin to hatch today. When I left the school, we had three chicks, one cracked egg, and two eggs that have yet to do absolutely anything. My kiddos, and I, were SO excited about these sweet chicks hatching and it made the entire day full of excitement. We look forward to the rest of the chicks hatching and all of them "drying out" so that we can get our hands on them! :) 

Tomorrow we will continue our chick discussion, and we hope that we will get to play with our chicks. Friday we will begin our learning of the butterfly life cycle. Check back later to get the low down on the end of our life cycle week.