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I hope everyone enjoyed their spring break and is ready to get back to work. We hatched 15 of 20 chicks and students took them home before spring break. This week, ARC students will be completing their chick embryology and hatching lab notes, viewing hatched egg shells under the microscope, and dissecting unhatched eggs as we press on with our reading goals! Please post pictures of your growing chicks or bring in pictures to share. Thank you!

Chick Hatching Congratulations ARC Students! So far, ARC students have hatched 11 chicks! They range from a light blond color to jet black. Students may start taking their chicks home this week!

Chick Hatching Project - Open House! ARC students hatched their first egg this morning at 8:13. Congratulations Kenadie! They have 3 more on the way...so far....! I tried to upload a video. Perhaps it will show up soon. We are having open house tomorrow, Saturday, from 12 to 1 for viewing. Students may take their chicks home next week. Remember, those students without a chick, may dissect their egg, to determined the expired stage of development, and their embryo if it is big enough. Well done ARC students!

Chick Hatching Project Update: No signs of hatching yet; although, I did hear cheeping this morning!

Classroom Project - Chick Embryology and Hatching! Our chicks are due to begin the process of hatching, which takes approximately 13 to 14 hours, anytime after 5 PM today! The eggs have been incubating for 3 weeks and the students have been surrogate mother hens! I can't wait to see what we get!

Welcome New Students! We welcome Connor an Mikey and their families to the ARC family!

Bear with us....we are having difficulty uploading pictures. SAM - congratulations Sam on your 200 merit award - Perfect citizenship for an entire semester and on your academic achievement at school! HUNTER - congratulations on successfully creating electricity from mud at the ARC and on your academic achievement at school! ARC Project - We have started a new chick embryology and hatching project! Our eggs are expected to hatch on March 8th! ARC Project - Our classroom river project is back on target. We are making good progress and hope to be able to upload pictures soon! :-)

Greetings from the ARC! Happy New Year to All! I hope everyone had a blessed vacation and will have a prosperous new year as we continue with reading instruction. We are kicking off the new year with Hunter's achievement! Hunter has met another reading goal. His reward was conducting a science project making electricity out of mud. His project was successful demonstrated by the blinking red light! Way to go, Hunter!

Merry Christmas to all and thank you to all of my clients who showered me with such lovely and generous gifts! The beautiful painting below was done by a former student of mine, Elizabeth.

Greetings! I hope everyone is enjoying their winter break! During winter break, ARC students can sign up for early hours and different schedules!

Greetings! I hope everyone had a blessed and joyous Thanksgiving!

CONGRATULATIONS, SAM! Sam made an A+ on his Mohawk project at school! He is also sharing it at the ARC. It is placed in a prominent place in our classroom. All of the students have made comments and asked questions about what they saw. Needless to say, even though ARC student sessions are one-on-one, they are learning from each other! Way-to-go, Sam! Thank you so much for sharing! Keep up the good work at school!