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!

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

Science Homework- Parts of a Flower

 Source: Ronald Locke

 

Your homework this week is all about flowers! Here are some useful links that might help you:

A great BBC Bitesize site with information about the lifecycle of flowering plants and a labelled diagram of the parts of a flower:

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/living_things/plant_life_cycles/read/3/

Play this fun game to put a flower together, then label the parts. It will help remind you of all the things you need to include in your poem/song/rap to teach other children about the parts of a flower:

 Source: http://www2.bgfl.org/bgfl2/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/science/plants_pt2/parts.htm

Flood Alleviation Workshop

We have been learning about 'Improving the Environment', so you had a special visitor today! You were lucky to have a workshop to learn about flooding and how it can be prevented.

Here are some super photographs (thank you Mrs Cook!) of your workshop:

The introduction talk

Model of Dulwich Park before the rainfall

 Model of Dulwich Park after the "rainfall"!

With flood alleviation in place (thanks to engineers Evelyn and Agatha)

 

  Model of houses

The effect of flash flooding on the sewer system

What was the most interesting thing you learned from the workshop today?