Hatching Chickens in the Classroom
Hatching Chickens in our classroom is a project that seems to cost money every year. I want to give a big shout-out to Wyatt, Ivy, and their families for helping support our chicken project this year! Some of these items will not only help us this year but hopefully for a couple of years. If you would like to donate to our classroom for this project or to our room please check out our Support/Donations page.
Reading:
Life Cycles: Chickens by David M. Schwartz
Chickens Aren't the Only Ones by Ruth Heller
Genre: Nonfiction
Skill of the Week: Review
Strategy of the Week: Review
Review, Literary Elements: Review
Phonics: Chicken Words
Vocab Words: Parts of an Egg
Language: Review
Spelling Words
Chicken Related Words
air cell
albumen
candling
clutch
egg tooth
hatch rate
humidity
incubate
infertile
imprinting
lockdown
pip
shell
temperature
yolk
Challenge Words
wattle
earlobes
docile
broody
molt
Amazing Words/Oral Vocabulary
albumin
chalazae (shah-LAY-zee)
embryo
hatchling
humidity
incubator
oviparous
pipping
Parts of an Egg Vocabulary Words
docile- easily managed or handled
plumage- the entire feathery covering of a bird
broody- a hen that wants to sit and hatch her own eggs, can be aggressive
pullet- a young hen, less than a year old
cockerel- a young male rooster
incubator- an enclosed and controlled environment to grow and hatch eggs
sex-link- a chicken that's feather coloring is based on whether the chick is a female or male
candling- to test for fertility or growth by holding the egg to a bright light
rooster- a full-grown male chicken, a boy
hen-a full-grown female chicken, a girl
dual-purpose- used for two purposes, eggs and meat
Click below to practice vocabulary words in Quizlet.
Additional Chicken Activities: Chicken Math Word Problems PowerPoint
Chicken Life Cycle Egg
Additional Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWo5LShxlHk
Real Mother Hen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3N5vtauDQU
8 Months Later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_3BNhF4QfY
Pictures of Chick Development: http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov04macro/mlchicken.html
Chicken Breed Identification PowerPoint.pptx