Friday, June 7, 2013

Being A Hen

So, it's clear that my teammates and I were not cut out to be mother hens.  We thought for sure that none of our 12 eggs had anything growing in them.  We candled them in a dark closet together and were sad that we would have to break the news to our students who were so excited to have chicks.  We contemplated just bringing some chicks into the classroom and pretending the eggs had hatched knew we had to be honest.  We had the hard conversations, but promised to keep turning the eggs through the 21 days just in case.  You can imagine our excitement when the first chick arrived!  We were happier than the students!!

Today is the day we say goodbye to the chicks (there ended up being 5 of them!).  They will go home with me for a few days until Mrs. Vielleux is ready to take them to her house to live with her chickens.  I am so glad this activity had a happy ending!  Here is a picture of the cute little chickies!


2 comments:

  1. "we contemplated..." -priceless!
    very glad to see pictures of the chicks and to hear that so many of them made it!

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