Tadpoles and Caterpillars and Chicks..Oh My!

Over the weekend, I set up our incubator and by Monday afternoon, the temperature inside was a perfect 100 degrees!  When the children came to school on Tuesday morning, they were very eggcited to find 15 eggs safely inside!  This week, we have learned all about eggs, chicks and chickens.  We even found a website that shows us exactly what is happening inside our eggs!  According to our research, our chicks will hatch in 21 days.  That means that on April 23 or 24th we should have new chicks!

Each egg is labeled with an X and an O.  We turn the eggs each morning and afternoon like the mother hen would do!

Wednesday afternoon we got another exciting arrival.  Our newest tadpole was delivered to our classroom!  We haven't named it yet but I'll let you know as soon as the children decide to give it a name. 

Both the eggs and the tadpole are in the science/discovery center with Cutie (our hamster).  The children have really loved going to this center.  They are making observations and noting them in the observation logs, reading books and learning lots about each of the animals we have in our classroom!  Here are some pictures of the science/discovery center with our new animals.  I will add more soon!



The children don't know it yet, but our caterpillars should be arriving soon!