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

Clouds!

This week with Mrs Herrera, we have been learning about the different types of clouds. We made these wonderful posters to demonstrate what we have learned:

                              

We have been observing the weather every day this week, looking at wind direction and speed, rainfall, temperature and cloud cover. We took these beautiful pictures of the sky, using the iPad, so that we could assess the cloud cover:

Today St. George's did a fantastic experiment to make our own clouds! We worked with Mrs Herrera and used warm water, foil trays and ice cubes. Can you leave a comment to explain what you did? How did the clouds form?