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Tadpole Adventures at Chater 2025

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  Tadpole adventures at Chater At the end of last term we were surprised to see something exciting in Nursery and Reception classrooms.  Each class now has a tank of tiny tadpoles. Mrs Spinage has collected some frogspawn.  It was laid in a pond by a female frog.  Each egg was a black spot inside a ball of jelly. Here is a picture of the frogspawn when it started to come out of the jelly eggs.  Can you see how the 'black spot' changed shape?  This was the tadpole beginning to grow. After a day the tadpoles came out of the eggs and rested at the bottom of the tank.   The next day they started swimming around.    You could see some feathery gills at the head end.  This was how the tadpole could breathe under the water.  The teachers have been feeding them some cucumber.  The tadpoles seem to like it! Maybe you can find out more about tadpoles and how they will eventually turn into frogs.  Check back on this blog to...
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Day 8 & 9 Ducking Swimming

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  Day 8 & 9  The ducklings have enjoyed swimming over the past few days.   They knew how to swim as soon as they were put into the water.  We have looked closely at the ducklings webbed feet as they help them to swim.   The ducklings do not have any natural oils on their feathers yet so the teachers had to dry them carefully with a towel when they had finished swimming!!
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Day 5 Duck Diaries

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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.
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Duckling Diary- Day 4 Learning to eat and drink!

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  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!
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Egg hatching

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 Egg Hatching Here is the time-lapse video we made when we managed to catch an egg hatching on camera.  Isn't it amazing!!
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Egg diaries Day 3

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  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!
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Day One and Two of the egg diaries!

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  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!
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