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Chicken Life Cycle Worksheets

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Egg, hatching, chick, hen: a four-stage chart with labeling, cut and paste, a spinning wheel, drawing and a read-aloud page.

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Chicken life cycle chart and labeling

A big life cycle chart to read together, then label the stages from a word bank.

Put the stages in order

Cut and paste the pictures around the circle, or number them with no cutting.

Chicken life cycle wheel

Two pages to color, cut out and join with a brad. Turn the wheel to see each stage.

Draw and read aloud

Draw every stage, then listen to a short story and circle the answers.

Print at 100% (actual size) for the cleanest tracing lines.

About these chicken life cycle worksheets

The chicken life cycle is short and easy to picture, which makes it a great first life cycle for kindergarten. A hen lays an egg and keeps it warm in her nest, a chick grows inside and pecks its way out, and the fluffy chick grows into a hen that lays eggs of her own.

These chicken life cycle worksheets show four stages with detailed line drawings: an egg in a nest, a chick hatching from a cracked shell, a chick and a hen. Children read the chart, label the stages, cut and paste the pictures around the circle (or number them with no cutting), build a life cycle wheel, draw the cycle and answer questions about a story read aloud.

Life cycles are formally taught in grade 3 (NGSS 3-LS1-1). These pages introduce the idea at a kindergarten level, with pictures, read-aloud text and no reading required.

Standards

  • NGSS 3-LS1-1Grade 3 standard, introduced here at a kindergarten level: develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
  • NGSS K-LS1-1Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.2Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.APrint many upper- and lowercase letters.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.1With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.2Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.

How to use them

  1. Read the chart together and follow the arrows from egg to hen and back to the egg.
  2. Label the stages with the word bank, or cut and paste the pictures in order.
  3. Make the life cycle wheel and turn it to tell the story.
  4. Read the story aloud, then let your child circle the answers. Answer keys are on page 2.
  5. Draw the cycle as a review, or as a quick check at the end of a unit.

Teaching tips

  • Ask what happens first, the chicken or the egg? For the life cycle, start with the egg a hen lays.
  • A chick takes about three weeks to grow inside its egg. Mark 21 days on a calendar to show how long that is.
  • A chick uses a tiny bump on its beak, called an egg tooth, to crack the shell.
  • A grown chicken can be a hen or a rooster. Only hens lay eggs.
  • If you can, visit a farm or watch a hatching video together.

Questions teachers and parents ask

What are the stages of the chicken life cycle?

Egg, chick and adult chicken (a hen or a rooster). These pages also show the chick hatching between the egg and the chick.

How long does it take a chick to hatch?

About 21 days, or three weeks, when the egg is kept warm by a hen or an incubator.

Why does the hen sit on her eggs?

Her body keeps the eggs warm, and the chick inside needs warmth to grow.

Do these worksheets have answer keys?

Yes. The label, cut and paste, number and read-aloud pages each have an answer key on page 2 of the PDF.