Mattie Day, left, shows a box containing caterpillars to Aubree Bagwell as Walker County elementary school children participate in summer camp for gifted students Wednesday at the LaFayette Middle School.
Staff Photo by John Rawlston/Chattanooga Times Free Press
LaFAYETTE, Ga. – A watched chicken egg never hatches.
That was, among other things, what students in Walker County Schools’ gifted program learned Wednesday at a summer enrichment camp at LaFayette Middle School.
So, instead of playing with fluffy chicks, students decorated pots for sunflower plants, mixed chemical reactions in plastic bags and watched tadpoles swim and worms dig in teacher Jill Day’s science classroom.
The chickens should hatch today.
“This is fun, kinda,” said elementary student Elijah Guthrie, as he mixed a sandwich bag full of purple goo that used to be water, calcium chloride and baking soda.