Fun with Eggs

Q: What kind of egg lives by the sea?
A: An egg shell

We enjoyed looking around the Golden Eggs site today, including finding some cute "egg" jokes.

We also spent part of our day working on our Legend of the Easter Egg lapbook. Today we were concentrating on science.

Do you know why some eggs are brown and some are white? White eggs come from white chickens and brown eggs come from brownish chickens. And, you can actually tell what color of eggs a chicken will have by looking at its ear lobes. (Did you know chickens had ear lobes???) Cool!

We also talked about the parts of an egg and labeled a diagram.


Then, we did a few egg-speriments. We are currently soaking some eggs (the raw one accidentally broke.) One of the eggs will soak for 24 hours and then we'll observe it and record our observations. Then, we'll let it sit out for 24 hours to see what happens. The other one, we'll soak for 3 days to a week and see what happens.

And, we took a raw egg and a hard boiled egg and spun them both at the same time to see which one spun faster. There was a pretty dramatic difference. And, we had a lot of fun spinning the eggs over & over.
(Book we enjoyed: Guess What is Growing Inside This Egg by Mia Posada)