Baby Chicks!

We have some exciting things happening in Kindergarten!  We are hatching baby chicks! It takes a hen and a rooster to make a baby chick.  The hen lays the eggs and has to keep them warm.  We do not have a hen in our classroom.  That would be silly.  We have an incubator to keep our eggs warm.  The incubator also rotates the eggs.  That means it switches them around. We have a total of 42 eggs.

Here is what is happening inside the egg:
"The blood vessels carry the air to the chick." Myonna
"There are tiny holes in the egg for the air to get in." Wesley
"The chick eats the egg yolk." Aaron
"It takes 21 days for the chick to hatch." Paulina

Day 21 for our baby chicks will be on Monday.  Then this is what will happen:
"The chick has an egg tooth that cracks the egg to help it get out." Levi
"The egg tooth will fall off of the chick." Nick
"The chick will be exhausted and will need to take a nap after it hatches." Selena
"The feathers on the chick are called down. It will be wet when the chick comes out." Jatzibe
"We will get to hold the chicks." William

Yesterday we looked inside the eggs using a light.  We labeled the eggs with a marker. We put a D for "dud" on the eggs that we think are empty.  We put a * (star) on the eggs that we think have a baby chick in them.  We put a double star on one egg because we saw the baby chick moving a lot inside of it.  We think he will be wild! We put a question mark on one of the eggs because we aren't sure what is going on inside of it.  We had a great time predicting what will happen next week!

We learned a word that is very hard!  We know a word that means "animals that come out of eggs."  The word is OVIPAROUS!  Did you know that word?

We can't wait until next week!  We will blog again to let you know how many chicks we have.  Yay!