Free Range on Fairview

Each day our first round of chicks keep growing and thriving and it has been so fun to watch. Since we have one more round of chicks in an incubator and the whole world is at home wondering what to do, we thought it would be fun to bring you along for the ride. According to my calculations we are currently around day 16/17 of embryo development for these Americana and Olive Egger chicks to give you an idea. If you are going to be following along on our egg hatch this coming week then I found a few mostly free resources for you to share with your kids to enrich the process. Worksheets Handwriting and Simple Coloring Sheets (free): https://inallyoudo.net/chicken-life-cycle-coloring-pages-free/ Life Cycle Work Sheets: https://www.livinglifeandlearning.com/chicken-life-cycle-worksheets-for-kids.html Life Cycle of a Chicken Printable Poster Set (free): http://www.communication4all.co.uk/Science%202/Life%20cycle%20of%20a%20chicken%20poster%20set.pdf Egg Letter Car

In response to all of the parents who are asking what they are supposed to do all day with their kids just remember we have all been given something we always complained we didn’t have enough of: TIME. We now have plenty of time for the foreseeable future to spend time sitting down together and using time to get back to the basics. You don’t have to set up a rigid schedule, but if that’s helps you then do it! Right now we have the time to teach table manners as we sit down to meals together. We have time to talk, question, and discover. We have time to practice new hobbies, dreams, and skills.           If you are still looking for resources there seem to be an unlimited supply of online resources which we will be wholeheartedly using, but I challenge you to look beyond that. Practice the basics.  Math: Numbers, adding/subtracting, patterns, fractions, multiplying, long division, percentages. All without a calculator. Practice telling time with an analogue clock. Open a pr