We have three eggs in our classroom.  The eggs are in an incubator in our classroom.  The incubator keeps the eggs warm and turns the eggs so that the insides don’t stick to the shell.  The eggs are teaching us about oviparous animals.  Oviparous animals are animals hatched from eggs.  We know that many animals hatch from eggs, such as birds and reptiles. 

We noticed that the eggs have different colored shells, dark brown, pale green and light brown.  We can also see inside the egg with a special scope.  The scope enables us to see what is happening as the animal develops.  In our first observation, we saw an air pocket at one end of the egg.  We were also able to see a black dot which is the heart, and little red lines on the yolk.  These red lines carry food from the yolk to the animal.

We wonder what kind of animals will hatch from the eggs?  Snake?  Turtle?  Chicken?  Dinosaur?

The children learned that the polar bear’s habitat is changing because of global warming.  Pollution is causing the world to warm up and the ice is melting in the Arctic.  The polar bears need the ice to hunt for their favorite food, seals.  The polar bear waits at a hole in the ice for a seal to come to the surface to breathe.  Then the polar bear grabs it.  Yummy!

The children designed a man-made habitat for a polar bear to live in.  They had to decide what features it would have to include in order for the polar bear to live comfortably.  Then they drew a picture of what it would look like.  Finally, they constructed the habitats out of paper and foam.

Visit your child’s blogfolio to see what s/he would look like living in a polar bear’s habitat.

Thank you Ms. Chow for the wonderful pictures.

The Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis is one of nature’s most beautiful phenomena.  The Arctic, home of the polar bears, is the best place to see this colourful light show. 

The children created two images with the same theme, the Arctic environment complete with polar bears and Northern Lights.  They used different processes, materials and techniques in each picture.  In one, they used torn strips of paper to represent The Northern Lights.  In the other, they used a painted palm print to symbolise a polar bear and coloured chalk to in the background. [metaslider id=4540]