The Kinder Chicks Are Here!

Reminiscing about my travels years ago is fun, but coming back to the "now" of the kindergarden world is way more fun!

The last few weeks my son's class has been keeping track of the progress of fertilized chicken eggs in their chicken journal, singing chicken songs, reading chicken stories, creating chicken art, dancing chicken dances, watching silent chicken eggs incubate and counting the days until the big hatch day.  Well, yesterday upon arriving to school, the children were greeted by almost twenty little baby chicks that had hatched overnight!  And luckily, a few chicks were running late so the kids were able to watch the hatching of the last few throughout the day.  Soon, each student will adopt a little chick, then name and care for it through the end of the year.

I just couldn't resist sharing their amazing class at Monica Ros School and their sweet new mascots!

 

And for those interested, we even have a live chicken cam....

http://99.130.101.208:8081/

"The Sky is falling!"

 - Chicken Little

Monica Ros Kindergarden Class Project

I've been busy attending to one of my new jobs....Kindergarden Room Parent!


I just finished helping guide and complete the "class project" which will be auctioned off at our Savoir Faire Fundraiser next weekend.  We (parents) cut, sanded, primed and painted the wood blocks (cut from 4x4 post) then each student chose a block and painted a chicken on it.  The tape came off, cubes were screwed into a 1/4" painted plywood base, cork was glued on back to cover screws and voila.... a Kindergarten masterpiece!


I'm not sure what we're going to call it....any ideas???


The chicken is the Kindergarden mascot, thus the chicken theme for the blocks.  In a few weeks, each student will be given a fertilized egg to take care of, study and then watch them hatch and grow.  We can't wait!!!


The hangers on the back were just attached five minutes ago and now we're finally complete!  Here's a brief visual story of what they/we (kids and parents) created....
(Sorry there are no photos of the kids!)

Thank you Val, Blu, Andre, Susannah, Mrs. Fiore and Mrs. Krout and all you awesome kindergarteners!

“We can see a thousand miracles around us every day. What is more supernatural than an egg yolk turning into a chicken?”

S. Parkes Cadman