Bawk! Bawk! Bawk! The Life Cycle of a Chicken

The second graders at Central Oak learned about life cycles during April this year. They raised some baby chickens from fertilized eggs that Ms. Burch received from a friend. The eggs stayed in the incubator until the babies finally hatched. Students were able to study all the cycles of a chicken's life through this real-life experience.

The classes checked out every single chicken-related book (fiction and nonfiction) from the library and located parts of nonfiction books to find out facts about chickens and raising chickens.

Their studies concluded with a real time virtual field trip to an egg farm in Illinois. The kids enjoyed watching how the egg farmers take care of the chickens, wash the eggs, and then deliver them. We were able to ask questions via the website as well. What a fun activity! We will definitely plan to do it again next year and I have included the link above so that others will know about it. Here are some pictures of the baby chickens and the bulletin boards of some second grade classes:

In addition to chickens, Ms. Burch has a few other class pets worth mentioning because they discussed their life cycles as well: frogs and a guinea pig named "Rockstar"!

This has been Ms. Burch's first year here at Central Oak and she has done a great job with her students. They will miss being in her class next year!