by Mary Ann McGann
Kindergartners at Central School were all aflutter (literally) as they welcomed to their classrooms that time-honored harbinger of spring… soft, yellow chicks.
For about a week, the students of Andrea McGuire and Christina DeShields carefully tended to two dozen fertilized eggs, learning about a chick’s lifecycle while rotating the eggs and monitoring temperature and humidity in the incubator.
The eggs were delivered on April 5 by Quiver Farm Projects of Pennsburg, Pennsylvania as part of an educational outreach program.
Farmer Ed Androwick provided a short tutorial on how first to care for the eggs and later, the chicks. On hand for this initial presentation were rooster Max and Ruby, a speckled hen.
The fuzzy barnyard babies began pecking their way out of their shells on April 11 and 12. The needless-to-say delighted kindergartners spent the week making sure the chicks were fed, watered and warm, before sending them home to Quiver Farm.
(above) Mia Khalil holds a fuzzy chick
