With the beginning of our Science unit of living and nonliving, interdependence, and the studies of different species of animals, we had an arrival of one dozen chicken eggs. For twenty-one days we kept them at a constant 99 degrees in our incubator, turned them 3 times a day, and tracked their growth and progress on a calendar.
Finally, a few small holes appeared. We waited anxiously all day for our eggs to hatch. It wasn't until everyone went home and the school was quiet did 7 of our chicks hatch! We were so excited the next morning. We had already named one because of the "freckles" on the egg shell - Freckles!
Soon, we had 4 more chicks hatch! We had a blast naming them and making a sharing circle so that we could hold them, pet them, and love on our little pets!
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| Our newly hatched chicks! |
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| They even took a nap while we held them. |
On our chicks' last day with us, Mrs. Germain sent us a wonderful surprise! She had made cupcakes that looked like...EGGS!!! We LOVED our delicious treat. What a great way to "send off" our chicks!
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| Look how yummy our "eggs" were! Tiger Team |
