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Massapequa Students Raise Feathered Friends
First graders worked together to raise baby ducks in their classrooms.
From Massapequa School District: As part of their study on animal life cycles, first-grade students at Lockhart Elementary School in the Massapequa School District recently raised baby ducks.
Incubators were delivered to the three classrooms and students learned about duck embryology. After four weeks, the eggs hatched and children named the ducks. In Regina Birney’s class, children chose the name Wilbur, based on the book “Charlotte’s Web,” for the runt of the litter.
Students kept journals to record the different stages of duck development. They learned how to care for the animals and bonded with their new fuzzy friends, even taking them for walks in the grass outside the school. After a few weeks, the ducklings went to live at Makinajian Poultry Farm in Huntington.
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