Hatching eggs in school

[Flockincrazy]

So my kids do a hatching project in school in the spring and we were asked if we wanted to donate eggs for the project and get back what ever hatches so we said yes and my daughters class is going to do duck eggs and my boys will be doing chicken eggs im so eggsited for them to have this experience with their friends at school I think we may do silkies for the first graders barn mix for the third graders and jumbo pekins for the fifth graders

 

[Corbdee]

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That is very cool.
One year I taught a College for Kids class for a couple weeks at an area community college.
All kids in the gifted programs at area grade schools were invited.
There were quite f few programs. I remember there were electronics, programming, aeronautics, astrophysics and other great ones. My class was more old school nature.
Mornings were for 1st thru 4th grades and afternoons were for 5th through 8th grades.
Each day was a different topic.
Monday was poultry. I had an incubator with eggs about to hatch. I also had some chickens and a turkey in class. I ;taught about the life cycle and about egg formation and about poultry as food. The incubator stayed in the classroom for the whole program.
Another day was gardening. We planted various vegetables and flowers for the kids to take home.
There was a day of bees and native pollinators.
Another was fungi, how it differs from plants and its place in nature. I had hardwood logs and plugs of mushroom spawn. With a few volunteers from the college we drilled the logs, inserted the plugs and used bees wax to seal the plug holes. Each kid was able to take a log home to grow their own shitake or oyster mushrooms.
Another day was about wild birds and the take home was a craft of pinecones smeared with peanut butter and packed with bird seed that they could hang for their neighborhood birds.

 

[Flockincrazy]

That is very cool.
One year I taught a College for Kids class for a couple weeks at an area community college.
All kids in the gifted programs at area grade schools were invited.
There were quite f few programs. I remember there were electronics, programming, aeronautics, astrophysics and other great ones. My class was more old school nature.
Mornings were for 1st thru 4th grades and afternoons were for 5th through 8th grades.
Each day was a different topic.
Monday was poultry. I had an incubator with eggs about to hatch. I also had some chickens and a turkey in class. I ;taught about the life cycle and about egg formation and about poultry as food. The incubator stayed in the classroom for the whole program.
Another day was gardening. We planted various vegetables and flowers for the kids to take home.
There was a day of bees and native pollinators.
Another was fungi, how it differs from plants and its place in nature. I had hardwood logs and plugs of mushroom spawn. With a few volunteers from the college we drilled the logs, inserted the plugs and used bees wax to seal the plug holes. Each kid was able to take a log home to grow their own shitake or oyster mushrooms.
Another day was about wild birds and the take home was a craft of pinecones smeared with peanut butter and packed with bird seed that they could hang for their neighborhood birds.

That is awesome and would be so much fun I would love to do something like that for my kids classes they have to do a writen and verbal presentation group project to go along with the hatching and I will be sending in info for the teachers to help teach the kids so it should be fun im also building small brooder boxes so they can keep them for 2wks after they hatch

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That is awesome and would be so much fun I would love to do something like that for my kids classes they have to do a writen and verbal presentation group project to go along with the hatching and I will be sending in info for the teachers to help teach the kids so it should be fun im also building small brooder boxes so they can keep them for 2wks after they hatch

After 2 weeks they may not want to let them go.

 

[Flockincrazy]

After 2 weeks they may not want to let them go.

My first graders teacher yes but 3rd&5th grades no there teachers are city girls im sending in a full detailed list on how to care for them and they are buying chick food from me because I make my feed so I want them to be used to it and im sure my kids will be giving pointers on how to take care of them