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Student-centered, project-based learning can be magical when things go according to plan. This year a
kindergarten project turned out to be just one of these magical moments. Both kindergarten classes in Los Feliz worked diligently on a science project that has turned out to be a huge success with
all members of the Los Feliz campus. It started out with a couple dozen farm eggs, 2 incubators, 2 dedicated teachers and their aides, and 40 very curious and passionate little ones. The kids
marked the eggs with Xs and Os. They turned the eggs twice every day for 21 days [well, Benoit’s group took a couple days longer]… out came a variety of new chicks who started to grow, and grow,
and grow…. Loved and nurtured by the little kindergarten students as well as by a stream of visitors from other grades, the chicks have flourished and have become the hidden celebrities at the Los
Feliz campus. Our dedicated maintenance crew built them a fancy coop and they have found a home under the bridge behind the 4th and 5th grade classrooms. The lively bunch is quite amusing, so used
to being manhandled by our loving little ones that they rush up to the sides of the coop to let visitors pet them. Bravo to our teachers Benoit and Claire for bringing this project to their
classes. The memories of this science class will last them a lifetime… somehow, either while watching them hatch, naming them, feeding them, holding them, writing about them, or drawing them, the
whole unit on the lifecycle has become more real… ever so more enriching than a picture in a book and a worksheet!
Claire's class provided footage that allowed me to make a 2.5 minute clip of the project...
Claire's class provided footage that allowed me to make a 2.5 minute clip of the project...
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