Noah Schmid, Karen Meng and Mia Sanchez take a turn feeding and petting one of the 13 newly hatched chicks in Linda McClain’s first-grade classroom at Korematsu Elementary School on Wednesday. McClain hatches chicks in her classroom every year, getting the eggs from a local farm, which is where the chicks eventually return to live. She’ll be taking all but four of the chicks back to the farm this weekend, with the remaining four staying at school until summer. Sue Cockrell/Enterprise photo