Hatching Eggs

Here comes some chickens! Mrs. TeKrony's second grade class is getting ready for some new little friends to join them once again this year. Each year Mrs. TeKrony's class works on a special science project called the life cycle. To make it more exciting, she gets some eggs from Mr. Kallhoff's farm and brings them to class. They've had a variety of eggs in the past, such as giney eggs, peacock eggs, chicken eggs, and pheasant eggs.

First the eggs go in an incubator to keep warm till they hatch. The kids will keep an eye on them and get to see the process of them hatching. A student from Mrs. TeKrony's second grade class, Billy Sides said, “I have never seen chicks hatch before, and I am having a lot of fun doing this project.”

Mrs. TeKrony started this project in 1997, and each year she gets about 24 eggs. Out of those 24 eggs the most eggs that have hatched is 10 and that was three years ago. Mrs. TeKrony said, “ The kids favorite thing about hatching the eggs is when they hatch and they get to hold them.” and play with them”. Once the eggs have hatched they send the chicks back to Mr. Kallhoff, then next year some more eggs will arrive.

Photo of: Eggs, Destiny Constant

By: Taylor Gould