Edible Christmas Trees 🎄

Edible Christmas Tree Cones

Y'all this activity is so much fun. Here's simple directions below.

• Take a waffle cone and turn it upside down.
• Paint waffle cones with green icing.
• Decorate the  Christmas trees with “ornaments” — candies like M&M’s, sprinkles, and pull apart Twizzlers for "garland".
•  Eat 🌲

Caterpillar to Butterfly 🦋

Raising Butterflies

From Caterpillar to Butterfly🦋

In the spring we hatched painted lady butterflies from an Insect Lore kit. The hatching took about 3 to 4 weeks. We hatch in the spring to give the butterflies a better chance of surviving in the wild. The Life Cycle is such a fun process for the students to be able to witness.

Finally the day has come to allow these painted ladies to spread their wings and fly.

After releasing the butterflies the students drew pictures of the butterfly release.

Field Trip to Georgia Aquarium

Every year we take our students to the Georgia Aquarium on a much needed break from school. The aquarium is such a fun field trip. Yall so much fun and a wonderful way to talk to the students about sea life. Before we went  we watched the live streaming videos on the website to introduce some of the magnificent creatures. A picture can say a thousand words without saying a word. I mean..... just look at how captivated the students are.

Chick life

The chicks are about 6 weeks old and its time to put them in a small coop. The students ask me lots when they are coming back to school. I have really considered building a small chicken coop to put in the garden at school. I think it would be wonderful to have a outside pet at school.

He digs chicks!!!! 🐥🐣🐤

The chicks came home over the weekend and this silly boy really enjoyed helping me entertain them. 🐤🐤🐤 #farmlife #countryboy

Hatching Chicks in the Classroom

It's Spring 2017 and we are starting our incubation of 10 eggs that we got from a farmer in our local town. I love introducing our students to the process of incubation each year. Many of our students have pet chickens around their homes but many students have never seen a chicken in real life. During incubation we use Math {counting down the 21 days until a chick is hatched}, we talk about Science during the process {the importance of the humidity during incubation. The humidity is very important for a successful hatch. Once the hatching starts we must prepare a home for our new feathered friends. This is a great opportunity for the students to be involved with the chicks everyday. They can help feed and water them and assist in cleaning their habitat.

                 

  Have you ever hatched chicks?  

Our class has learned about the life cycle of a chicken, incubating eggs, watching them hatch, and raising the chicks until they are old enough to be adopted or placed in a chicken coop.