Over the past 3 weeks the children in the nursery have been looking after some chicken’s eggs in an incubator. Every day they have had to check the temperature on the thermometer and the humidity on the hygrometer to make sure the conditions were right for the eggs to hatch. The eggs had to be turned 180 degrees very carefully using gentle hands 4-5 times every day. It has been a very exciting wait for the children and on Monday night our first egg hatched! We now have a little fluffy feathered friend in the nursery that the children have called “Cheep”. It was very easy to name her because even before she hatched out of her egg we could hear her very clearly cheep cheeping from inside. We would like to say a huge thank you to Annavale Poultry for giving us the chickens eggs to make this exciting experience possible. The children have learned so much about the life cycle of a chicken and Im sure it will be an experience they talk about and remember for a long time.
Daily Archives: May 14, 2019
P4/5 John Muir Award (2)
This afternoon we went to the forest as part of our John Muir award. The weather was great and we had fun exploring and discovering what was in the forest.
The first activity we did was quite challenging as the children had to work in pairs to find something in the environment starting with each letter of the alphabet. We had some great ideas like bark for ‘B’, uneven ground for ‘U’ and feathers for ‘F’, letters like x,y and z were a little trickier!
The next activity followed on from our work in the playground yesterday and we continued to explore our creative sides by using natural materials to create artwork on the forest floor. It was great having different materials to use compared with what we found in the school ground.
P3/4 Learning our Serve in Tennis
Today Primary 3/4 children have been learning how to serve both under and over arm.
“I liked doing the serve today as it was lots of fun. It was a bit difficult to serve.” Abbie
“I liked doing the serve because it was very fun and needed a lot skill.” Jack
“I liked it because it really gives you a lot of exercise and requires really good skills. I felt it was kind of easy to do” Aden
“I think keeping the rally going was really hard because you had to try and keep it going without it stopping.” Cole
“I had lots of energy.” Lucas M
“You needed really good skills and energy.” Dylan