Showing posts with label eggs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eggs. Show all posts

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

Monday, 7 March 2016

A Wonderful Week!

Take a look at some of the marvellous writing from St. Clare's Class last week...
We had a wonderful week; it was  Book Week and we had an unexpected visit from some unusual creatures!

In the next couple of weeks, we will be creating our own texts about endangered animals and working towards opening our Fairtrade Cafe at the end of term. Remember- we are in FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT!

An exciting addition to our topic has been the 'Snack Attack' challenge. Each team is working to design, promote and create a Fairtrade snack to compete with the other teams at school, to decide who will be our school's entry for the national competition. A busy few weeks ahead!

 Kenan

 Emily

 Rory

 Elizabeth

 Jack G

Gracie

Maria

 Erhun

 Rory

 Finn

Mina

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