Learning About Ducks

Dear Families of Div. 16:

The farmer delivered our duck eggs to our classroom late Friday afternoon and we were all very excited! Ms Ballarin’s class received three chicken eggs. Ask your child where they are keeping warm and growing in our classroom. Most days we have the opportunity to look through a scope and see the embryos develop. Each day something has changed. Ask your child what they noticed today in comparison to Tuesday. We are also learning with our “Egg Cycle” booklet what is happening inside the egg each day in its development. In 13 days, we are expecting our ducklings to arrive.  Ask your child to make a prediction about how what is growing inside the egg might have changed  when we observe the eggs next.

Big Ideas:

• Living things have life cycles adapted to their environment

Curriculum Competencies:

• Observe objects and events in familiar contexts
• Ask questions about familiar objects and events
• Make simple predictions about familiar objects and events
• Make and record observations
• Transfer and apply learning to new situations
• Sort and classify data and information using drawings,  pictographs and provided tables

Content:

• non-metamorphic life cycles of different organisms
• similarities and differences between offspring and parent
• compare observations with predictions through discussion
• compare observations with those of others
• communicate observations and ideas using oral or written language and drawing

Core Competency: Critical Thinking and Reflective Thinking

• I can ask questions and consider options. I can use my observations, experience, and imagination to draw conclusions and make judgments.

First Peoples Principles of Learning: Learning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential, and relational.