Kindergarten class egg-specting to have some chicken hatchlings soon
By Stuart Hedstrom
Staff Writer
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Students in Elizabeth Chabot’s kindergarten class at SeDoMoCha Elementary are anticipating that a half dozen eggs in a classroom incubator will hatch in the near future, and the youngsters will then be able to see some newborn chicks.
Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom
HOPING FOR CHICKENS — Students in Elizabeth Chabot’s SeDoMoCha Elementary kindergarten class have been observing an incubator with a half dozen eggs, which they hope will hatch around April 13. Pictured are front, from left, Maci Armstrong, Elsa Vandermast, Kaydance Benson, Damien Bremer, Nataleigh Perry and Aislinn Miller. Back, Ryatt Black, Brennan McGeoghegan, Ella Hutchinson and Maddelynne Stone.
“We are incubating six different chicken eggs,” Chabot said on April 1, saying the eggs are a mix of colors with the different shells being blue/green, white and brown. “We are doing it because we have a farm unit coming up and what better way to learn then to grow some chickens.”
“We have had them for nine days now and they should hatch around April 13, just before break,” she said with the eggs incubating for about three weeks. “We can observe them for a few days and then find them a nice home.”
Chabot said she acquired the eggs through grade 7 science teacher Mary Kate Povak and Povak has had success in the past in getting incubating eggs to hatch. Chabot said she tried a similar lesson in previous job, but no eggs ended up hatching.
“Today is the first day we are going to candle them to see if there is a chicken inside,” Chabot said. She explained a specialized light will help show the students what is inside the egg shell.
In the brief time between when the students came inside from recess and then headed to lunch, Chabot asked her pupils what the eggs are supposed to grow into. “Chickens!,” the 10 students said in unison while sitting on the classroom rug. She then asked who was excited to see the eggs hatch and 10 hands immediately shot up into the air.