Chick Send Off!

We finished our chick life cycle unit Friday with a celebration in class. Our chicks hatched last Tuesday, we enjoyed watching them and learning about them for the week, then on Friday afternoon we had a celebration where we showed our month's worth of work to visitors before sending the chicks off to farms! Today we will finish up a few last chick related projects then send them home.

Farm Visit

As part of of our unit learning about the life cycle of a chicken first grade visited the Milton Miniature Farm this past week. We spent lots of time with chickens and also got to meet some miniature horses, donkeys, and sheep!

Chicks!

For the past three weeks we have been incubating fertilized chicken eggs in class and learning about the life cycle of a chicken. We expect our chicks to hatch at the beginning of next week. Stay tuned for photos of the hatch.

Here are photos of us cleaning/setting the eggs in the incubator, of students getting ready to the the Official Egg Turners, and of students working on some chick art for our bulletin board.

Friday, May 24 we will have a celebration to show off all of our writing/work about chicks as we prepare to send them off to farms!