It's Chick Month!

Our class is wrapping up our weather unit this week and getting ready to learn about chicks! We have been learning about how the sun, wind, clouds, rain, and temperature are all major parts of weather. We have been graphing the daily weather and marking the daily weather all year and have been studying the weather more in depth for the past three weeks. This week we are learning about the water cycle. You can ask your child to tell you about the water cycle and the different types of clouds (we have been practicing learning the words cirrus, cumulus, stratus, and nimbus as well as what type of cloud each word describes). This morning each first grade class received our chick eggs! Nurse Kelly came into our class to clean our eggs, show us how to turn them daily in the incubator, and how to keep clean when handling so that both we and the developing chicks stay healthy. We have 12 eggs in our incubator and we will spend the next three weeks caring for them. About 21 days from today we should expect them to hatch! We will start learning all about chicks next week when we are all done with our weather unit. Here is a photo of our eggs in the incubator!