Wednesday, February 8, 2017
BABY CHICKS
We had the opportunity to have baby chicks in our classroom. Students
in Mrs. Jensen’s 4th grade class have been reading the book “The
Secret Chicken Society” by Amanda Haley. In the story a fourth grade
class hatches eggs. We decided that it would be a fun and a wonderful learning
experience to hatch eggs in our classroom. After receiving the eggs and an
incubator from Andy Bakken, a local farmer, we were able to turn the eggs,
candle them, and eventually observe them as they hatched in our classroom. The
students learned about the life cycle of the chicken from the beginning of the
embryo development. Students were able to candle the eggs, observe the heart
beats, and see them hatch over the course of the 21 days.
