Nature at Chater Infant School

Day Three Thursday Last night two more eggs hatched and by Thursday morning we had four ducklings.  The last egg was slower to hatch but, by lunchtime, it had finally hatched so now we had five ducklings in Nursery.  Enjoy this video to show an egg hatching.  We used time-lapse so the video is faster than in real-life! (Sorry the clip is upside down!) Here is a video from a previous year in Nursery.  Isn't it amazing! Children have enjoyed touching the ducklings very gently and holding them on their laps!   Children have started to show great curiosity and are asking lots of questions.  We will observe the eggs closely to try to find out some answers to questions like:  I wonder how ducks eat? I wonder if ducklings can fly or swim? I wonder what a duckling likes to eat? Do ducklings sleep alot?

  Day Two We have some very egg-citing news!   Yesterday afternoon the Nursery Class had a very special delivery from a farm in Norfolk.  We had 5 eggs delivered.  We were keeping them warm in an incubator.   Yesterday 2 eggs hatched overnight and now we know these were duck eggs as we have ducklings!  The Nursery children were really excited to meet them this morning!

Egg-citing News  We have some very egg-citing news to share with you. The Nursery Class will have a very special delivery today 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!