Learning Together

What is an incubator and how is it used?

• Help prepare an incubator.
• Place incubator out of drafts.
• Put in thermometer, water and eggs.
• Use an incubator.
• Read a thermometer.
• Turn eggs three times a day from Day 2 to Day 18.
• Look at eggs daily.

Use math with eggs

• Count the number of eggs set.
• Guess how many eggs will hatch.
• Count the number of eggs that hatch.
• Count the number of days it takes to incubate the eggs.

How a chick hatches

• Watch a chick hatch.
• Draw a picture of a newly hatched chick.
• Tell your friends and parents how a chick hatches.
• Ask your teacher to make a tape recording of chick sounds.
• Gently and carefully hold a chick in your hands.

New words about eggs

• Have your teacher provide a new word list.
• Write new words in a complete sentence.
• Write a story about hatching and chicks using the new words.
• Play "Egg Tag." Have your teacher explain the rules.

Show and tell

Share with your friends by showing and telling about new things:

• Thermometer
• Incubator and nest
• Egg, egg shell, yolk, and white
• Chick

Other uses for eggs

• Cook with eggs.
• Ask your parents five ways to cook eggs.
• Help your parents make egg dishes.
• Name some foods that have eggs in them.
• Make some egg art.
• Color Easter Eggs.
• Color egg shells to make egg mosaics.