Nature at Chater Infant School

Day 5 Handling the ducklings Children in Nursery enjoyed learning to carefully handle the ducklings this week.  The children are learning lots about how to care for living things and have been using gentle hands and quiet voices when near the ducklings. Children in Reception also had a chance to see the ducklings when they came to their classroom to visit! This weekend the ducklings will have a visit to a teacher's house where they will be looked after until Monday morning. You might be surprised at how much they grow in a few days!  Come back next week for more pictures and updates.

  Duckling Diary- Day 4 Learning to eat and drink! Today we moved the last two ducklings from the incubator to the cage.  Now all of the eggs have hatched and we have 5 ducklings in the cage.   Today the Nursery children enjoyed holding the ducklings on their laps and stroking them very carefully.   We watched the ducklings eating and drinking for the first time.  The teachers helped the first duckling to eat and drink by moving around the food and splashing the water.  Once this duckling had learnt what to do, the other ducklings copied! The ducklings are only 1 day old and they can eat and drink by themselves.  I wonder what you were like when you were a baby?  Ask your parents what you were like as a 1 day old baby!

 Egg Hatching Here is the time-lapse video we made when we managed to catch an egg hatching on camera.  Isn't it amazing!!

  Egg-citing News Day 3  We came into school on Wednesday morning to find two animals had hatched during the early morning, another hatched just before school.  Luckily the teachers were able to catch the third egg hatching on camera. This video will be added soon.  Can you see what animals have hatched from the eggs?  Was your prediction correct? We looked closely at pictures of baby animals, looked at the shape of the beaks and worked out that we had.........ducklings!  The first three to hatch have brown fluffy feathers. So then we had 2 eggs and 3 ducklings. In the afternoon, another egg hatched while the classroom was quiet and the class was doing PE in the hall.  What a surprise when we returned to class.   After school, the last egg hatched! Now we have no eggs left, and 5 ducklings! We can't wait to touch and hold them tomorrow!

  Day One and Two We have some very egg-citing news!   Yesterday the Nursery Class had a very special delivery from a farm in Norfolk.  We had 5 eggs delivered.  We are keeping them warm in an incubator and waiting to see if they will hatch.   We have started predicting what will hatch out of the eggs.   What do you will hatch out from these eggs? What day do you think the first egg will hatch? Come back and read the blog each day to see if you made a good guess!

  Egg-citing News  We have some very egg-citing news to share with you.  Next week the Nursery Class will have a very special delivery from a farm in Norfolk.  We will have some real eggs delivered to Nursery.  We will keep them warm in an incubator and wait to see if they will hatch.   Facts about eggs: Did you know lots of animals lay eggs?   Can you name some?  Here are some pictures of animals which lay or hatch out from eggs.     Which animal do you think will hatc h from the Nursery eggs? Challenge:  If you would like to draw an animal which lays eggs or hatches out from an egg, give the pictures to your class teacher to pass to Mrs Spinage and some of them can be added to the blog!