It's Chick Time!

On Monday first graders began our last, and favorite, science unit of the school year; the life cycle of a chick! We started learning about a chicken's life cycle, the way a chick forms inside the egg, and how to hatch fertilized eggs. Tuesday morning each first grade classroom got a dozen fertilized chicken eggs (from the farm at UVM), learned how to care for them and stay clean/safe around them, and put them in our classroom incubators. For the next 21 days students will take turns turning the eggs in the incubator (the way a mother hen would do in her nest) and learning all about chicks. Around day 21 we will get to have the amazing experience of watching the chicks hatch! We will keep them in a brooding tank in class for a few days where the kids can observe them and then they will move back to the farm at UVM on May 22. Stay tuned for more photos and information!

The eggs in our classroom incubator

Kids will bring this home the day they were one of the "official egg turners"

 so you will know to ask them about it!

Kids will wear one of these badges at school the day they are 

one of the two "official egg turners."