Our first time playing with the ducks!

Today, we sat around the rug and had the opportunity to play with Hewey, Lewey, and Lilly. The students were so excited and used very gentle hands with our ducks! We are learning all about how much responsibility it is to take care of living animals.

Please pay attention to the excitement on Hayden's face!

Lilly really liked Bella Grace!

Lilly loved sitting in Lexi's lap!

One baby duck was trying to escape...

Hewey and Lewey are try to decide who to visit next!

Lilly jumped right in Landon's lap!

Wow! What an exciting day! As you can tell, the ducks already love room 201 all*stars! 

Wow! 800 lines!

Nicholas and Joshua have been reading a lot lately! They have both reached 800 lines! 

Please meet Hewey, Lewey, and Lilly!

The students had the opportunity to meet our newest members of room 201!

After meeting the ducks for the first time, we voted on names! As a class we decided on Hewey, Lewey, and Lilly. 

Students are loving writing about our new friends!

"Are you excited about our ducks hatching? I am excited!"

I cannot wait to continue learning more about our ducks throughout the week!

1 Baby Runner Duck!

We now have 1 baby runner duck who is still drying off in the incubator!  Please enjoy the video's below of her hatching!

We now have 3 baby ducks joining us in room 201!  There is one more runner duck egg in the incubator but I am not sure that it is going to hatch.  I haven't seen the egg move at all.  I will keep you updated.

Hatch Day is 3 days early!!

I went by the school today just to check on our sweet duck eggs... little did I know what I would find!

We have 2 baby Pekin ducks so far but it looks like the runner duck eggs have a crack in each of them!
Pekin Duck #1:

Needless to say, I brought the incubator home with me! Look at this sweet face!!

Pekin #2 just hatched!

Baby Pekin #2 is fighting hard to break out of his egg.  

The baby Pekin duck is almost out.  He is working so hard!

Completely out!

I'll keep you updated with more pictures as they hatch! I cannot wait for the kids to see the ducklings Monday morning!

Great reading Jaylen!

Jaylen reached 500 lines in 100 Book Challenge!

Insect Fact Posters

Our class has been very busy this week! We have been creating fact posters for each insect based on the facts we learned from research. We are using these posters to write literary non-fiction books about the insect of our choice.

Please check back in to see samples of our literary nonfiction insect books.

Congratulations!

Daniel reached 500 lines!

Shyann reached 700 lines!

Great job! I am so proud of both of you!

We went on a bug hunt!

To start our insect unit, we decided to go on a bug hunt to find different kinds! 

After observing and recording our findings, we came back to the classroom to determine if the bugs we found were insects or not. We learned from research the insects have 6 legs and 3 body parts. We determined that the spider was not an insect because it had 8 legs. The beetle we found was an insect! This was such a neat way to begin our exploration of insects.

Congratulations to Sage!

Sage reached 700 lines and was recognized on the news show!

Great job Sage!