First graders at Sacred Heart School participate in Project Chick

The first graders at Sacred Heart School recently participated in Project Chick. This project helped students learn about bird life cycles.

An educator from Casey Farm visited the classroom with everything needed to incubate a clutch of eggs and engaged students in a hands-on presentation about chickens and eggs.

While waiting for hatch day, the students participated in activities where they learned new vocabulary and followed the development of the chicks.

Twenty-one days later, the students observed the chicks hatch! Six Rhode Island Red chicks and six Dominique chicks were welcomed into the classroom!

The children observed and cared for the chicks for one week. A few weeks later, the first graders visited Casey Farm to learn about free-range chickens on one of the oldest farms in Rhode Island.