More and More Chicks!

Tuesday when I got to school, the incubator was very noisy... there were 4 chicks in there! So now we were up to 5 chicks! We also had two eggs with small cracks in them. By the end of the day those eggs still looked the same, and that sometimes means the chicks were unable to crack all the way out and won't make it. :( But when I got to school today, we had another chick and the other egg sure was wiggling!
Mrs. Otte and I get our eggs from one farm, and Mrs. Mayne and Ms. Fenstermann get them from another farm. Sadly, none of their eggs were hatching. Mrs. Otte and I decided to share our chicks with their classes, so we gave Mrs. Mayne's class 2 of our chicks and gave the cracking egg to Ms. Fenstermann. This made their day! And it made our day, too! We got so many thank you notes and updates about the eggs and chicks from them throughout the day. At lunch time their egg hatched! This year especially we had a great lesson on life and death, and also about sharing and caring!

Today was the first day we got to hold them. Some kids weren't quite brave enough to hold them at first, but by the end everyone did!

Many more chick pictures to come!