HeidiSongs Teaching Resource

Have you ever wanted to hatch chicks in your classroom, but didn't really know how to get started or what to do?  In this post, I'm going to tell you how I have hatched chicks successfully each year in my classroom for the last fifteen years or more!  It's tons of fun, and the children just LOVE it!  And once you have the equipment, you can do it every single year!  Oh, BOY! I really lucked out because as a beginning kindergarten teacher, my teammates had already invested in some incubators.  I do not know how they got them- if they wrote a grant for them, or if the school paid for them.  But they had four incubators so that there would be one for each Kindergarten classroom.  They asked me if I wanted to hatch chicks, and I happily agreed!  Then I was trained on how to do it and given the eggs.  Once I learned how, I helped the new teachers learn at my previous school.  And that is exactly what I did for the first grade t...

This week we have been wrapping up some loose ends.  We tested on subtraction on Thursday, and will be starting problem solving on Friday and next week.  We also have been finishing up our unit on insects, and starting to learn about chicks and other animals that hatch from eggs.  Plus, we are getting ready for Mother’s Day, so we have been wrapping our presents and writing cards.  So this hopefully will give you some ideas for Mother’s Day if you are trying to figure out what to do with your own class!  One thing I would like to point out is that there were GOBS of great ideas offered up on my HeidiSongs Facebook page a week or so ago when I asked people to post their favorite ideas for Mother’s Day projects.  So if you don’t find anything you can use in this blog entry, maybe there will be an idea you can use there.  In any case, good luck! 1.  Mother’s Day Guided Drawing Greeting Card If you have been following my blog for very...