Chick Quadrammas

This week we made our final project to wrap up our chick life cycle unit. We made quadrammas (4 part di-rammas) to show the life cycle of a chick. Students used model magic and a few other materials to make a hen, eggs in a nest, an egg hatching, and a chick so that when the quadramma is spun around it follows the life cycle! Here are some photos of the kids working on them.

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Chick Celebration

This afternoon we wrapped up our week with the chicks by having a celebration! Family members came to class and the kids showed off the different work they had done throughout the unit and we took the chicks out for some photo ops with the kids. The chicks are now headed off to a farm! Here are photos from the week and today's celebration.

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Chick Pics

Our chicks have hatched! We have 9 as of this morning (out of 12 eggs) and we will see if there are any more to come! Families please join us from 2:15-3 on Friday for our Chick Celebration before they return to the farm that afternoon!

Poetry

In early May our class did a mini-unit reading and writing poetry! Here are a few photos of kids sharing their work.

Eggs!

Today is day 6 in our countdown to the hatch! Two students each day have been turning the eggs to help the chicks develop properly inside and today we candled the eggs for the first time. In order to candle the eggs we turned out the lights and closed our shades to make the room darker. We then put the eggs (one at a time) on a piece of cardboard with a hole cut in it on an overhead projector (actually the only thing I use the overhead for since we have much better technology now!) in order to shine a bright light through. Shining the bright light through the eggs allowed us to see the developing embryo inside of each egg! We were able to see the air space, egg white, and embryo (including blood vessels and the heart) in most of the eggs! This was fantastic because in past years we have not always been able to see the embryos as clearly. Make sure to ask your child about it today!

We will candle the eggs a few more times at different points during incubation to see how the embryos are developing! We expect our chicks to hatch around May 19.