We had a new enrichment teacher this year that is WONDERFUL! She is up for anything and everything. One day we were talking and we realized that we each wanted to hatch chicks in the classroom, so we decided to make it happen. We got our school to approve buying all the equipment which included the eggs and the incubator. We kept the incubator in her room so that grades K - 3 could participate.
We did a lot of fun learning with the chicks and my class was in charge of blogging about them everyday. The chicks were in their eggs for 21 days, and then were supposed to hatch. Well, the time came and we thought they may hatch on a weekend. Someone came to check on them because there are all these procedures to do. No chicks. Monday came, no chicks. Tuesday came, no chicks. Wednesday came and we thought we had all goners. I began to prep my class (as I had been doing all along) for the fact that they were not going to hatch. BUT THEN, my friend Ali came running in because she heard chirping and a tiny hole had cracked on one egg. You have no idea what proud Mommies we became. It was a slow slow process, but eventually we saw more cracks and the first one hatched!!
Unfortunately, I was super sick and could not come to school on Thursday when most of them were hatching. I did get many updates throughout the day and was not sad to miss the ones that did not make it.
I could go on and on, but I think I have written too much. It was SUCH an amazing experience!!
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