All About Wind

As you know, we have been learning all about the weather around you! My students can tell you all about the water cycle and can answer the question that they asked at the beginning of our unit: "What happens to the puddles on our playground?"

Today, we learned about wind and how it affects us in our day to day lives.  We started by reading the book, Wind.

We discussed different things that the wind can blow, and then tried to fly our own kites. 

As the students were flying their kites, they noticed that as the wind began to blow harder, their kites started flying higher. They said it was much harder to hold on to the kites when the wind was blowing. 

We have worked hard and learned so much during our study of weather!

Mrs. Wagner surprised us as our Mystery Reader!

Thank you so much for reading to our class! We loved reading about Ruby!

Congrats Landon!

Landon reached 500 lines in 100 Book Challenge! Great reading Landon!

Candling Day 8

Today, we had the opportunity to candle our duck eggs! Out of 7 eggs, we think 4 have baby ducks inside! 2 Pekins and 2 Runners!

Pay close attention to the veins!

Mrs. Daniel also brought one of her eggs to show our class! You can see the embryo of the baby Pekin duck inside!

Special thanks to my wonderful 5K photographers! We cannot wait for our baby ducks to hatch!

After candling, we wrote about our experience in our journals.

"We saw the veins."

"We are candling our eggs. We found a baby duck. I loved it."

"We are going to candle the eggs to see if the baby ducks are growing."

Pekin Duck Vs. Runner Duck

Facts about our Baby Ducks

This week, we asked our students to find one fact about each of the types of ducks we are hatching in our classroom. These are the facts that were researched at home.

Pekin Ducks	Runner Ducks
Bred from the Mallard in China	Usually lay 150-300 or more eggs a year.
Adults weigh 8-12 lbs.	Do not fly or waddle.
Live to be 9-12 years old	They stand up like penguins
They now have white feathers because they eat grain.	They run and walk.
Their eyes are grayish-blue.	They come in lots of colors
They have an orange bill	Usually weigh 4-4.5 lbs

 

A visit from the 2nd Grade Weather Experts!

Today, we had the privilege to learn more about weather from Mrs. Holden's 2nd grade class.  They read us their poems about weather and helped us create our own!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please enjoy the video of one group of students sharing their poem that they created together!

 

We are so thankful to have had the opportunity to learn from the 2nd grade weather experts!  Thanks for visiting our classroom.

Creating Our " An Egg Is Quiet" Journals

Last week, we began creating journals to document our journey of hatching baby ducks in our classroom.

We used the book, An Egg Is Quiet by Dianna Hutts Aston as our mentor text.

 

We have also been studying non-fiction text features such as table of contents, headings, and labels. We have applied all of these features to our journals!

 

We started by creating the front cover. We used labeling and fancy font to make the cover more attractive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also glued our summary on the back and annotated to help us understand and remember. 

 

Annotation codes

W: something I wonder about

Circled word: a word I don't recognize

Heart: something I love

Star: important part

 

 

 

Next we began our table of contents:

 

 

 

 

We learned that the heading on the table of contents has to match with the heading on the page.  We also learned that the page numbers  have to match up as well.

 

On page 3, we wrote about the importance of our incubator:

 

"The incubator is like the mama duck."

 

"The incubator is like the mama duck.  It keeps the eggs warm so that they can survive."

 

"It keeps the eggs warm so they can survive."

 

 

After that, we learned about other animals that lay eggs besides ducks. We read the book, Chicken's Aren't The Only Ones  by Ruth Heller to learn more information.

 

 

We documented our learning on page 4:

Lastly, we learned that eggs come in different sizes. The ostrich egg is the largest and the hummingbird egg is the smallest. We illustrated and labeled this on page 5:

 

 

Whew! That was a long post! I am so excited about the way these journals are turning out! I cannot wait to continue sharing their hard work with you!