Dear Parents,
Thank you so much for the Teacher Appreciation Days. You filled our hearts… and our bellies. We miss having you, our parents, in our classrooms. It is a very different sort of year, but we’ve made it to May.
The Honeybees have enjoyed the ebb and flow of the Appalachian spring. I read something recently that said that spring in Appalachia contains seven tiny winters. Winter number five must be upon us now. We have been practicing the most important skill…. noticing. Some things we see, some we smell, and some we hear. Iris’s are blooming in our backyard garden and there is a nest of starlings in the corner of the picnic shelter near the playground. They are so loud when their mama feeds them.
Did you see our first froglet today on Insta? Check out his tiny perfect froggy self. 52 days from egg to frog. We are counting down to baby chicks in the next two weeks.
We cracked one on the day we put them in the incubator, and the Honeybees told me to never do that again. They were a little worried that there was already a chick in there.
Our new incubator has an egg candler built in, and I tried it out today. I’ll show it to the kids tomorrow. Every year I wonder what will happen if none of the eggs hatch, and that feeling struck me today. It hasn’t happened to me yet, but it could. I’ve been looking at egg candling pictures on the internet like a new mom with 12 babies.
