Look What Hatched

After a week of Easter related activities, and a beautiful long weekend with Spring undertones, it was fitting to explore the concept of animals that hatch out of eggs upon our return to school. We brainstormed and created a chart of animals that hatch from eggs and then sorted animals into a group of oviparous or not oviparous.

To extend the children's knowledge we read Chicken's Aren't The Only Ones and completed an activity that supports the theme.

Here the students had to cut out the large egg, decide on an oviparous animal that they would like to draw by referring to our read aloud, and then paste it to the back of their egg. Once dried, the students had the animal "hatch" from the egg!

But we had to take it one step further! Students sat with me and quite independently stretched out the name of their chosen animal, listened for the sounds and printed the appropriate letter. So cool to be a part of this milestone!

Be sure to check back to this entry because I'll add a few more pictures of their accomplishments as they are completed!