What's inside an egg?

This is one of my FAVORITE science activities to do with preschool! 

 We labeled the parts of an egg first.  Then each student cracked their own egg

 to investigate what is inside.  They came up with some great describing words

 for the inside and outside of an egg!

Some deep investigating!

 More egg sorting during centers!

Chicken Life Cycle Week!

This week will be all about the chicken life cycle.  The eggs arrived and the students are sooooooo excited!  One of my little guys even said he had been waiting his entire life for this! I am totally addicted now to blogging and TpT.  The creative juices were flowing over spring break.  Here are some of my new products in action!

We have mastered counting but number writing is still challenging for some of my kiddos.

  I made this fun number practice activity for them with a twist of science!

  Oviparous animals!

Chicken life cycle puzzle. 

They built the puzzle, drew it on the white board and acted it out today! 

Egg sorting by color.  Group game today, center activity tomorrow. 

 Most of my students have this concept down but there are a few

 that need the extra practice.

My students have been hooked on memory games and are getting really

 good at them.  I thought it was time for a different game. I made a game for

 them called "Go on an Egg Hunt".  It's a variation of the classic game "Go Fish".

  They LOVED it!  

Eggs are coming!

It's that time of year again! Who's hatching? I will have eggs waiting for me when I return to school Tuesday. I have been creating and planning life cycle activities during my spring break.  My friend Deedee posted a super cute video. You can check it out on her blog, Mrs.Wills Kindergarten. I can't wait to show it to my class next week. It also inspired my latest creation.

Weighing Chicks

We have been exploring the concept of "heaviest" and "lightest" this week with a balance scale. Today we learned that 2 chicks are "heavier" than 1 chick. The students loved using the chicks for math. (Not sure if the chicks enjoyed it)

What's inside an egg?

Today we labeled the parts of an egg and took a closer look to find out what is inside an egg. The students came up with great describing words.



Cracking an egg is not as easy as it looks!



How does it feel?  Great sensory experience for some of my kiddos.

Out popped a ...

This week we are hatching chicks in our classroom. Today we stopped and ran to watch two little ones hatch out. This inspired a writing activity for the day. I gave the students the following prompt, "The other day, I gave a shout when an egg cracked open ...". We walked around the room and pretended to find eggs (shouts included). When the students decided what they wanted to "pop out of their eggs" they sat down and wrote about it. Here is one of them.