Every spring, students in Mrs.
Shirley's pre-kindergarten class at Adams School watch and listen to incubating
chicken eggs, waiting approximately 21 days for signs of little
beaks pecking at the shells. This year only three eggs produced
chicks. Each student had their picture taken with a chick, and the
pictures will be added to the children's keepsake portfolios.
Each month of the school year classrooms at Adams School studied a
different author. They read his or her books and created artwork and
creatures that reflected the subjects in the stories. May's author
was Eric Carle, who wrote "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and other
colorfully illustrated tales of animals and nature. The
pre-kindergarten class
learned about Carle by looking at his website,
www.eric-carle.com, where
he demonstrates his technique for designing characters and shares
stories by reading his books aloud.
Mrs. Shirley and her assistant, Mrs. Berkshire, helped the afternoon
students learn to act out the story of "The Very Hungry
Caterpillar." They practiced all week and will perform the story
today during the school's Spirit Day event.
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Mrs. Shirley, Adams School pre-K teacher,
incubates chicken eggs each spring to show her students how baby
chickens are hatched. Mrs. Shirley and Lucas Ulvestad worked
together to find a comfortable grip for one of the chicks.
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Caden Rhoades took a turn holding a chick from
the small flock the Adams School pre-K kept in their classroom.
After the eggs hatched in the incubator, the chicks were placed in a
tall box for easy viewing. Friday the chicks will go to a farm to
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Lucas Ulvestad and
Jacob Weeks kept an eye on everyone on Thursday, during playtime in
the pre-K classroom at Adams School. |
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Brook Coleman found the fishes at the light
table to be just as much fun as baby chicks. |
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Ashtyn Gannon will
play the butterfly in the pre-K class performance of "The Very
Hungry Caterpillar" during Spirit Day activities on Friday.
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The morning pre-K class at Adams School made
tissue paper butterflies to look like author Eric Carle's character
in his book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." |
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At the beginning of the school year, Mrs.
Shirley asked students to design T-shirts, then attached a life-size
picture of each student's face and hung them over the classroom.
Students will take the items home at the end of school.
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