Nature at Chater Infant School

Today the ducklings enjoyed a swim in Nursery.....

Egg-citing News Days 3 to 5  We have had great fun looking after five lovely ducklings in Nursery this week!  The children enjoyed holding them on their laps and learning how to gently stroke them.  Here are some pictures for you to enjoy. The ducklings have learnt to eat and drink this week.  They needed a little help first, adults wriggled their fingers in the food to get the ducklings excited so they started pecking.  Once one duckling had learnt to drink from the water container, the others quickly copied!

  Day 2: Tuesday Here is a picture of the eggs in the incubator in Nursery today.  We had 5 eggs delivered on Monday.   First the children predicted what they thought might hatch out from the eggs.  Ideas included snakes, crocodiles, chickens, ducks and dinosaurs!!  This afternoon the eggs started hatching.   We looked closely at pictures of baby animals and worked out that we had ducklings!  By the end of the day 4 eggs had hatched. We were very surprised to see that the ducklings were black! The ducklings inside the eggs used the 'egg tooth' on the end of it's beak to crack the egg.  This is a sharp tip on their beak which will fall off after a few days.   F irst the duckling needs to break through the inside, then the outside of the shell.   It will need to crack all the way around the eggshell so that it can push its way out.  This process is called pipping.  It can take a long time.   We made this time-lapse video so you can see what happened. We are hoping the last du

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 hatch 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 and some of them can be added to the blog!

  Everyone has been thinking about the environment and taking part in activities to remind others about looking after the planet. Here are some examples of the work we have done at Chater Infants. I was really impressed with these models and posters-Well Done!!

 Egg-citing News Day 6 When we arrived at school on Friday we discovered that all the eggs had hatched and we now had five lovely ducklings!  The children enjoyed holding them on their laps and learning how to gently stroke them.  Here are some pictures for you to enjoy. Can you see where the ducklings get their food and water?