To kick off our science study on the Pond Habitat, we started learning about the duck this week! We also built it into our alphabet study as we learned about the letter D.
For our science study, we learned that ducks have a special oil gland in their skin that keeps their feathers dry! We got to explore this by putting a little oil on our ducks and spraying them with water. We saw the water bead up as the oil prevented the duck being soaked by water.
We practiced counting by counting 5 ducks and sang the 5 Little Ducks song!
We explored some sensory play in our pond buckets which was a definite class favorite!
And to work our fine motor skills we had a duck race!
