Hatching Chicks in Room 6 [Hardcover]

Follow a classroom of kindergartners as they participate in a popular activity: hatching chicks. Readers learn about the life cycle of a chicken, incubating eggs, watching them hatch, and raising the chicks until they are old enough to return to the chicken coop.

Caroline Arnold’s simple text and close-up photographs are instructive and adorable.

Winner of the Cybils Award for Elementary Nonfiction

Arnold captures the joy and mystery of this familiar unit of study —Kirkus Reviews

Readers will come away with a good understanding of chickens' origins —Booklist

An excellent addition to studies of animals, life cycles, or agriculture, as well as an excellent mentor text for the genre of photo essay and stories of classroom life. — SLJ's Classroom Bookshelf Blog♦ It's a lucky kindergartner who gets to witness the miracle of life through the incubation of eggs.
White kindergarten teacher Mrs. Best raises chickens at home and is teaching her diverse group of students about chickens and eggs. In brilliant close-up photographs, readers see the students' wide-eyed faces as they learn about incubation, the parts of the egg, the egg tooth, and everything else about the 21-day cycle from egg to chick. The easy-to-read narrative follows the days to hatching and the first weeks of life in the classroom. On many pages, the classroom story is supplemented by scientific information set in faux hand-written type in egg-shaped callouts. Teachers who are contemplating bringing eggs (and their eventful chicks) into the classroom will learn much here. Ample backmatter will help to answer any additional chicken questions for the especially interested teacher or student, including some tricky ones. For example, she broaches the truth that only 50 to 80 percent of incubated eggs hatch, and she makes it clear that chicks are not good house pets.
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