Mrs. Meek's Kids are One in a "Minion"

The new school year is fast approaching and I am so excited!  I hope everyone has received their postcards in the mail.  Our open house will be on August 13th from 5:30-7:00 p.m.  I hope everyone is able to make it out so you can see your new classroom and meet me!  Look forward to seeing you soon!

We are Educating the Public! Check out our Public Service Announcements

Here a some of our PSA's!  Stay tuned for more.

People walking by our classroom can see what we have been doing as well!

Our ducks are getting very comfortable in our classroom!  They love to swim in our sand and water table, they love to be held, and they love waddling after the children.  We are very busy loving our ducklings but also busy learning all about them.  They are fascinating animals. We have been trying to educate  everyone on them when we have visitors in our classroom.  Some of the most interesting things we love to share about them so far is that bread is actually not good for ducks! So next time you go to a pond don't take your old bread.  Instead take vegetables!  Many of our guests have learned a new word that they had never heard before, which is preening.  Preening is when a bird straightens and cleans its feathers with their beak.  Our ducks do this quite often especially after swimming. We have learned so much and we will continue to share.  Stay tuned for our class Public Service Announcements.  

I really do believe that if I let them they would spend HOURS just watching them swim!

They love to let the ducks "peck" their fingers!

DUCKS!!!

Our ducks started hatching on Easter Sunday!  Beastie (a Mallard duck) and Bruiser (a Pekin Duck) made their appearance that day.  It was long and exhausting for them it took all of them about three to four hours to fully come out of their shell (I recorded a small video).  The others pipped (to crack or chip a hole through (the shell), as a young bird) but didn't actually make their grand entrance until April 6th.  Each duck had to then spend between eight to twelve hours in the incubator to dry and regain their strength.   All are doing well.  So far it looks like our class family has three Pekin ducks, one Mallard, and two Runners!  You will see that some of them are already taking to the water.  I can't wait for you all to see them.  I know you will thoroughly enjoy playing with them!  Stay tuned for more pictures and videos.  

Day 7

It is day 7 in the incubator!!  We started candling our eggs today! We took a flashlight and held it behind our eggs in a dark room and we actually saw the inside of our eggs.  We were so excited to see the development of the tiny embryos in each egg! (The look on the children's faces were priceless).  Right now it looks like a small dot in the middle of each egg with small veins coming from the dot.  Check it out and stay tuned!

Our Eggs are in the Incubator!

As of today our eggs have been in the incubator for 6 days!  Here are some pictures of what has been going on in the classroom.  Children are keeping journals of the progress.

THE WAIT IS OVER!

Hopefully everyone's child came home today excited about ducks!  Yes, you read it correctly we have been talking about ducks for the past week as well as their eggs.  Your children have created K-W-L charts on what they know and what they wonder about ducks.  They have come up with some pretty interesting things.  We have also been reading books about ducks and thier eggs such as An Egg is Quiet by: Dianna Hutts Aston and Make way for Ducklings by: Robert McCloskey, as well as many others.  We have discussed what an incubator does and how often the eggs must be turned.  Today we put 12 duck eggs in our class' incubator in hopes that 28 days from today we will have some ducklings!  Some were white but some were blue and even green so we are very excited to see what kind of ducks they will produce.  Talk to your child about what they are doing for this project!  Stay tuned for pictures, videos, and journal entries done by students!  Hope you enjoy our project!