Learning Together - Grades K-3
| Things to Learn |
Things to Do |
| What is an incubator and how is it used |
- Help prepare an incubator.
- Place incubator out of drafts.
- Put in thermometer, water and eggs.
- Use an incubator.
- Read a thermometer.
- Turn eggs three times a day from Day 2 to Day 18.
- Look at eggs daily.
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| Use math with eggs |
- Count the number of eggs set.
- Guess how many eggs will hatch.
- Count the number of eggs that hatch.
- Count the number of days it takes to incubate the eggs.
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| How a chick hatches |
- Watch a chick hatch.
- Draw a picture of a newly hatched chick.
- Tell your friends and parents how a chick hatches.
- Ask your teacher to make a tape recording of chick sounds.
- Gently and carefully hold a chick in your hands.
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| New words about eggs |
- Have your teacher provide a new word list.
- Write new words in a complete sentence.
- Write a story about hatching and chicks using the new words.
- Play "Egg Tag." Have your teacher explain the rules.
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| Show and tell |
Share with your friends by showing and telling about new things:
- Thermometer
- Incubator and nest
- Egg, egg shell, yolk, and white
- Chick
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| Other uses for eggs |
- Cook with eggs.
- Ask your parents five ways to cook eggs.
- Help your parents make egg dishes.
- Name some foods that have eggs in them.
- Make some egg art.
- Color Easter Eggs.
- Color egg shells to make egg mosaics.
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