Friday Duck Flash!

See what I did there? It took 32 days and me finally deciding to intervene but I got the ducks here! I kept telling the kids the ducks were helping us practice our patience :) What a busy first week of May! I can't believe it is May and I can't believe that we only have 23 days of school left! Where did the year go?! But we are sure going out with bang, busier than ever and learning every day!

Duck Writing

This week after our study of ducks students wrote about facts they had learned about ducks. This gave them a chance to reflect on what we had learned while also practice their informational writing. In general we are also working on stamina, sounding out things for ourselves before coming to teacher! I am amazed with how well students are doing in their writing and as we continue our amazing writing over these next weeks I know it will just continue to get better and better. (Spoiler Alert: each student is also going to be writing a book in the few weeks!)

I know that ducks eat their yolk.
Grown up ducks are white.
Pekin babies have yellow fur. and they lay 201 eggs every year.

I know that ducks they live in water.

Pekin ducks have webbed feet.
Ducks lay eggs.
Ducks eat in their eggs.

The King of "ing"

This week we looked at words ending in "ing" and I introduced our King of Ing! It is really just a fun way for kids to remember that when you put an i and n and a g together it makes the ing sound. I had kids coming up to me all day saying "I found another King of Ing!" Next week we will be diving into bossy e who tells vowels to say their name! It is an exciting time in their reading development that we are diving into more complicated literacy rules! The best part is that they are fully ready for the rules and are constantly reading in class! It is a glorious thing to see every day!

Tens and Ones

Believe it or not your students are already begging their understanding of place value! In class we have been talking a lot about groups of 10 and strips (which are made up of 10 squares). We have also started using vocabulary like "trading in 10 for a strip!) In the worksheet you see below students had to count how many tens they saw, how many extra ones (as I call it) and then how many squares there were altogether. We are just laying the foundation for place value but it is an exciting time in their math journey!

The Ducks are coming the ducks are coming!

What an amazing journey your students are getting to see first hand. Not only have they been waiting patiently for 32 days but this week we have started to get our reward. Wednesday evening I saw the beginnings of our first crack on on of our eggs. Every minute of the day Thursday a student was glued to the incubator watching the eggs shake (some even got to hear the tiny chirps!) and we saw that 3 other eggs also developed small cracks! One even developed 2 cracks (see photo below)! All I can say is the suspense is killing me! 

Here is a picture of our first crack in our egg:

Then on Thursday this egg developed not just one crack, but two!

Then today after our ducks not hatching, I decided to intervene and help them hatch. We had 4 at first but one passed away this afternoon which I explained to kids sometimes happens. Then this evening another little guy passed away. But 2 are doing very well eating and almost able to walk around now!

I will post a video of the hatching process and pictures later this weekend!

Yay Ducks!

Smiles,

Miss Adams