Hatching Chicks in Room 6

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.


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