Our EGG-citing Week!

Our week was filled with EGG-cellent learning!

This week we began our hatching journey! To prepare, we listed what we already KNOW about chicks...

... and what we want to LEARN.

This week we carefully placed 22 beautiful eggs into a warm, humid incubator. We can't bring hens into the school, so the incubator acts as a mama hen, turning the eggs while keeping them warm and moist. Each day we monitor and record the temperature and humidity.

These eggs didn't come from the grocery store, they came from Mrs. Junck's family farm! Mrs. Junck is guiding our learning and hatching. Each week we are looking forward to a lesson from her. This week we learned about the air cell inside the egg. We were able to see it when we shone a bright light on an egg.

We noticed that the eggs in our incubator were many beautiful colours. They didn't all look the same. We cracked open a brown egg and a white egg, and noticed they looked the same inside, even though the outsides were different. Then we had a really powerful discussion about how WE all look different on the outside, but on the inside, we all have a heart and want to be loved.

Eggs are a symbol of new life, which is why eggs are a symbol at Easter! We spent an afternoon making Pysanky, traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs. This took lots of patience and creativity, and we did have lots of fun! We kept reminding eachother that "everything new is hard at first". 

So much EGG-citement this past week! Have a blessed Easter!