Early Years topic this term is…

1. Early Years topic this term is… All Creatures Great and Small…we have been learning about animals

2. We had a very special delivery to our classroom… Eggs!

3. The eggs came inside a special box called an incubator. The incubator kept the eggs at the correct temperature until the eggs were ready to hatch!!! We waited patiently, and watched carefully until…

4. The egg started to hatch….

5. Here is the first chick that hatched. When the chick comes out is its very tired and needs time to sleep and dry off as his feathers are wet from the inside of the egg!!

6. After 24hrs they are strong enough to move from the incubator to the brooder box… Here they have seeds to eat and lots of water to help them grow…

7. With this particular breed its easy to tell girls and boys apart. The girls are brown and the boys are yellow! We had 7 boys and only 2 girls!

8. We did lots of work about chicks in all of our subjects too! Here we practiced adding together groups of toy chicks. We then practiced writing the number sentence. We practiced weighing Pretend chicks and compared their weigh to other objects We made lovely pictures of chicks too…here we collaged a chick using orange and yellow paper…

9. When the chicks got bigger we were able to handle them for short periods of time. However we had to make sure we were gentle and make sure we washed our hands

10. After two weeks the Living egg company that supplied the eggs collect the incubator and they rehome the chicks for us at an organic farm

11. Goodbye from us… Here are all the chicks sleeping!!!!!