The Post Where I Hatch Eggs In Kindergarten

I would like to announce that I, yes, I, Taylor Maliblahblah am basically like Ms. Frizzle from the Magic School Bus now.

Would you like to know why?

I brought FERTILIZED eggs into my classroom, incubated them for 21 days, and allowed my students to witness the miracle of life.

Let us be impressed that I know A) What Fertilized Eggs are and B) How to incubate them.

Thank you.

(That is Little Dude pictured above watching a little chick hatch)

I have to admit.  I was a bit worried that the eggs would not hatch.  I had a Plan B in place.  If none of my eggs hatched, I was just going to bring in a couple of baby chicks and “trick” my students into believing they had hatched them.

I know.  TRICK my students.  For shame.

But as luck would have it, we had four hatch and all four are happily living in our classroom.  They chirp all the livelong day and the students and I have decided that the birds are learning math and reading skills along with us.

They shall be the world’s smartest birds.

At first only two hatched, and so we named them Thing One and Thing Two.  Because kinders are all about Dr. Seuss, in case you didn’t know.

But two more hatched a bit later, so we just named them Thing Three and Thing Four.  Because that’s how we roll.

So that’s that.  Oh!  And I am basically like THE farm and ranch expert at school.  You know, because of the chick-hatching fiasco and the whole raising of pigs and whatnot.  I informed David post haste that his wife was considered somewhat of an expert in the field of farm and ranch studies.

He felt that was extremely sad.

Happy Sunday!