Day 3 of our eggs

So here we are on day 3. The children are getting so excited now. It's a bit more palpable with their eagerness to go and visit the incubator. I wanted to share our egg wall again (in case you missed it yesterday):

So I put up all those eggs on our wall and every day that goes by I stick up what our chicks look like on the inside of their egg. It's a nice reference point for the children to look at and keeps us counting down to hatch day. Today our baby chicks are starting to get their limb stumps and their heart is starting to form. 

At lunch today we watched the magic schoolbus episode where they go inside an egg and get to watch it grow. We had watched it before but I decided we should watch it again now that we have our own chicks. They were so excited to see some of the similarities between our chicks and the magic schoolbus chicks.

We also added to our observation books today so the children drew out what the egg looks like and wrote a sentance. When they had finished day 1, 2, and 3 we let them sneak a peek at day 4 and 5 since we will not be in school over the weekend. Tomorrow our chicken's heart starts to beat and on Sunday they begin to look more like a chicken.

It's a pretty exciting time to be in our class! I'm sorry for the jumpy post today. It's a bit short and sweet as I watch my iPads battery level decrease. Have a great weekend and I can't wait to share more next week.