This spring, kindergarten students began their annual life cycle unit: hatching baby chicks. However this year, the unit would look different than in any year prior. Children placed eggs in an incubator in the classroom. However, an early April nor'easter blew through Maine. The power was out at Friends School for 3 days and kindergarten teachers Carie and Robin ventured into a new study unexpectedly. Students came into class to learn that their eggs were no longer viable. After many questions and reading a book about "passing the energy," students decided to place their eggs out in the woods. A game camera was set up, and students watched from afar as fischer cats, coyotes, deer, and squirrels visited their eggs.
Students recounted the stories of their egg adventures to friends, families, and their eighth-grade buddies. The idea of a book took root!
Here are a few of the pages of their storybook that was written this spring.
