Today, we put the research we did at home to use and learned all about animals who lay eggs instead of having babies that are alive. We read Chickens Aren't the Only Ones, by Ruth Heller. We learned while reading the book that reptiles, insects, fish, birds and amphibians can all be oviparous animals. We learned that oviparous animals are animals that lay eggs instead of having babies.
We put our learning about oviparous animals into action by "hatching"our own oviparous animals. We used plastic eggs and hatched pictures of oviparous animals out of them. While we were "hatching" our oviparous eggs, we showed the class what animal we had and then we had a class discussion on the animal. While having the discussion, we began to sort the oviparous animals into smaller categories. The categories we came up with were: reptiles, insects, fish, birds and amphibians.
Here are some pictures of us hatching our oviparous animals and sorting them:
Lauren hatched a snake!
Noah hatched an ant!
Lindsey hatched a ladybug!
Linzey hatched a cardinal!
Tanvi hatched a shark!
Claire hatched a tree frog!
At this point, this was what our sorting of the oviparous animals we had hatched so far looked like..
Shyla hatched a frog!
Emily hatched a turtle!
Isabelle hatched a clownfish!
Shube hatched an eagle!
Sophia hatched a chicken!
And here was the final result of our sorting..
Our pictures that we "hatched" were glued onto the poster board and will now be displayed as an anchor chart for us to refer to for the rest of the year!
And then, we had to really put our learning in action by creating a page about oviparous animals in our An Egg is Quiet books..
"Did you know that ducks aren't the only ones that lay eggs? Robins lay eggs, and ostriches also, clown fish and sea turtles, last are the hummingbirds and these are my oviparous animals."
"Did you know that ducks aren't the only animals that lay eggs? Because ostriches can lay eggs too and many other animals."
"Did you know that ducks aren't the only ones who lay eggs?"
"Did you know that ducks aren't the only ones who lay eggs? Instead of having a live baby, they lay eggs and are called oviparous animals."
"Did you know that birds aren't the only animals that lay eggs?"
We learned SO much today and we LOVED "hatching" our oviparous animals. Stay tuned as we continue to learn all about these animals all week long!
I love this blog entry! How great that our students are learning such words like oviparous.
ReplyDeleteI am very impressed! Way to go, "All Stars!" I am proud of you and your hard work. Your writing is very detailed and contains lots of great information about your EGG-cellent journey! Keep up the hard work.
Dr. P