Molly writes about candling eggs

Taelor writes about candling eggs

Ron Lee writes about candling eggs

Joseph writes about candling eggs

Alexis writes about candling egg 26

Erin reads her writing about candling eggs

Candling egg 26 on day 16

We held egg 26 in front of the projector light and candled the egg. We saw the blood vessels, air space and the chick moving.

Jennifer reads her writing about candling eggs

Incubation

Mrs. Sian got some eggs from Mrs. Agle (a farwell teacher)and Mrs. Keyser brought some eggs in from the Cover family. They brought them to school today and we put them in the incubator today. Mrs. Sian kept some of the eggs for the incubator at her house. Hopefully, between the 2 incubators, we will get some to hatch.
We made a calendar and marked 21 days. The eggs should hatch around May 4th. We also numbered the eggs and filled out a chart with information about size, color and which incubator they were put in. We are going to keep lots of data.
We watched a magic schoolbus video about eggs and filled in information that was missing on our circle map. We are learning a lot about chickens!

April 9th, 2009

We have started learning about chickens. We made a circle map about chickens. First, we filled in what we already knew and then we filled in information we learned from books and movies.



Today, we tried some experiments. We squeezed an egg in our hands and
tried to get it to break, but it wouldn't break.





We rolled an egg to see how it rolls. Some people thought it would roll in a circle and some people thought it would roll straight. We graphed what we thought and then we rolled the egg. 14 students thought it would roll straight and 9 students thought it would roll in a circle. We rolled the egg and it rolled straight.


We broke an egg open and examined it like scientists. We saw the skin around the shell, the yolk in the middle and the albumen around the yolk. We learned from a book that the yolk has food for the chick and the albumen is water and food for the chick. We also learned that there is an air space for the chicks to breathe. We drew a picture of an egg and labeled the parts.


On Monday, we are going to put eggs in our incubator and hope that they hatch this year.