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First grade teachers at Ray Elementary have been hatching chicks in their classrooms for over 20 years now. This spring, both first grade teachers set out to carry on the same tradition as many years before. Each classroom incubates 18 fertilized eggs provided by a community member. This year only seven eggs of 36 hatched, but the students were just as excited. After the eggs sat in the incubator for 21 days, the students saw their first egg hatch on April 13, 2015. The hatching continued until April 15, 2015. After each chick hatched, they were moved to the nursery, which is an area where the chicks can stay warm. After the chicks were a few days old, each student had the opportunity to feed the chicks. After a full week in the classroom, the chicks went to their new home with the Day family. It is quite possible these chicks will be the same ones that provide the first grade classrooms with fertilized eggs next year!
More facts about what we do in the classroom:
We study the chick life cycle by looking at day-by-day pictures of the chick’s progress
We write about the daily changes in a journal
We learn the terminology of the chick cycle
Pip- the first crack a chick makes in the egg when it’s time to hatch
Hen
Rooster
Embryo
We watch a video :The Magic School Bus, Cracks a Yolk to learn more about the Life Cycle of a chicken
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