Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Saturday, 22 October 2016
Goodbye Chicks!
On Wednesday, we made a run for our chicks to explore- to give them more space to play in. We each had a turn carefully holding the chicks too. It was a lovely afternoon!
On Thursday, we waved a fond farewell to our chicks. They have returned to the farm, so that they have more space and fresh air to run around in. We wrote some lovely letters to the Happy Chick Company- the gentleman that came to collect the chicks was delighted with them and said they'd put them up on display! We will miss the chicks, but we had a great time with them. Goodbye, chicks!
Saturday, 15 October 2016
Chick Update!
The Year 5 chicks are getting big!
Yesterday we voted to choose their names:
The girls are called:
Fluffy
Yoka
Eggy
Puffy
The boys are called:
Egbert
Chico
Beaky
We love the new additions to our class! We've been taking good care of them this week. Next week, we hope to build a run for them, so they can get some exercise and run about safely in an enclosed area!
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Chicks!
We are on chick watch in St. Clare's Class this week! On Monday, 14 eggs were delivered to us. We kept them warm in our incubator and spent lots of time learning about eggs and the development stages of chicks. We talked to them and could hear them cheeping from inside their shells! We saw the eggs start to move and wriggle around.
Source: The Happy Chick Company
Yesterday, the eggs began to hatch! We had to leave them in the incubator, with their egg shells, for 24 hours.
Today, 13 chicks have hatched and are now very fluffy and full of energy. This afternoon, we transferred them from their incubator to their new homes in larger brooder boxes (one in St. Clare's and one in St. John's).
Tomorrow, we will be observing how they grow and perhaps we'll even give them names!
Source: The Happy Chick Company
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
An Eggs-tremely Eggs-iting Day!
What a peculiar day! This morning, when we arrived at school, we had received a special URGENT letter from the Government Department for Unusual Creature Knowledge (D.U.C.K.). A Professor F. E. Athery had written to us asking for our help:
These letters appeared, along with some rather unusual feathers, in every classroom and in the office. We also found multi-coloured feathers all around the school, even on the Welcome to St. Anthony's sign!
But, perhaps strangest of all, there were four enormous mysterious eggs in the hall! Two had hatched, but there was no sign of the creatures that had been inside them.
We spent the day investigating and coming up with some fantastic theories about what the creatures might look like, why they had chosen our school to hatch and where they might have gone now!
Everyone in the school, from Nursery to Year 6 (and even some of the adults!) did some writing about the eggs or the mysterious feathered creatures. Some children thought they were dragon eggs, some thought they had arrived from space and some thought they might be reptile-bird crosses! Year 5 suggested that the eggs might have arrived in the hall through the sky light, which was immediately above where they were found. Some children thought they might have come from our Escher Lego picture, or that they had chosen to hatch next to our world map so that they could find their way home.
We will add lots of photos of the eggs-iting day later this week and we will choose some of the best pieces of writing to share on the blog and display on our 'Inspiring Writing' board outside the hall, between the Year 2 classrooms.
Here are a few marvellous pieces to capture your interest...
By Charley, Year 1
By Estelle, Reception
By Harry O., Reception



