To help us learn about life cycles, the farmer kindly gave us some eggs that had just been laid and explained that if we kept them warm for 21 days they would hatch into chicks. Since we didn’t have a hen to sit on them to keep them warm we had to use an incubator. Very carefully we set the eggs into the incubator and began the count down until they hatched. Each day we looked at how the chicks were developing on our egg- chick hatching resource.
Finally the big day arrived! On arrival to school we discovered that there was a small hole in one of the eggs and lots of cheeping!
As each egg hatched we put all the chicks into a special cage and kept them warm under a heat lamp. Every day we fed them and gave them clean water. What a great experience and just in time for Easter!
