Hatching day!

20 days ago, we set our 7 eggs in the incubator. The children have talked about the eggs daily, in terms of "the eggs are on the move" as the incubator mimics Mummy hen and moves them every so often. 

We have looked at the growing chicks using a special candle lamp and saw blood vessels and clear signs of growing chicks.

Still, nothing can every prepare you for the final, magical hatching and today we were lucky enough to witness it with our own eyes. Truly wonderful and quite rare as they tend to like hatching at night ( maybe because it's dark and quiet?!) and we are a day early.

So here we welcome chick number 1 ( who may already have been named- Miss Grant insists it's 'Dave' and since it was her birthday yesterday we might let her have that one!!)who struggled a bit and caused some concern towards the end of the whole process since he seemed to arrive backwards with a large part of shell attached to his head! 

And so here are some photos which show what we found this morning and finish with our lovely 'Dave' born around 3.40pm today!

Ahhhh! Lovely. 

Who know what we may find in the morning???!

We're going on a Gruffalo Childs hunt!

This week, in the run up to our exciting theatre trip to see 'A Gruffalos child', we have been thinking lots about the Gruffalo and The Gruffalos child. 

On Tuesday we went on a very important hunt to find the Gruffalos child. The hunt took us across the bark area, "crunch, crunch", through the willow tunnel"whoo, whoo", over the hill "stomp, stomp", past the pond " splash, splash", through the trees "swishy, swishy", through the tunnel" whoosh, whoosh"! After a lovely time outside exploring our surroundings, we found him! He was hiding in the bushes in the Nest ( our lovely outdoor classroom). And there, waiting for us, was a story of The Gruffalos child, all ready for us to share and enjoy.

We're not going on a Gruffalo hunt again!!!!!

World book day

Last week we enjoyed celebrating World Book Day.

We all came to school dressed as a favourite character from a book. Here are some of our costumes.

Even the teachers and teaching assistants dressed up!

We enjoyed sharing the stories our characters had come from - many bring from our favourite stories.

The Tiger Who came to tea...

Mr Gum....

Winnie the witch...

What the ladybird heard ( with Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len!)....

We're going on a bear hunt..... And more besides.

We had lots of fun.

We then thought about stories in Read Write zinc and we made our own stories up by playing a game based on characters and settings.

We had lots of lovely story tellers.

I love you Mummy....

Please visit your child's Tapestry for a very special message😉

Incubating eggs

Today was very exciting. We got to put our chicken eggs into the incubator. We have to leave them for 21 days and hopefully, our little broad will hatch. Last year saw a 100%success rate....no pressure Mrs Hough!

We chose 3 children from Hazel and 3 children in Cherry classes and Miss Grant, to select an egg to put into the incubator. It holds 7 eggs in total.

We will now begin the big countdown..... Please see Hazel blog page for more information and the photos.