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Our chicks are growing fast, the children are fascinated and like to spend time watching them.

The children very carefully handled the chicks. Some liked it more than others.

We got a surprise when we arrived this morning, a little earlier than expected, one of the chicks had hatched. Meet Barbara.

The children noticed cracks in another egg and were amazed when they got to watch another chick hatch.

Meet Brenda

Another 2 hatched throughout the day, so we have 4 chicks in total now.

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The children were very excited when our new arrivals came this morning.

Having this experience exposes the children to a rich vocabulary as well as the opportunity to watch the hatching process in action.

We are already encountering new words and finding out their meaning. Today we learnt what an incubator was, the children are already beginning to use the language when they are talking.

There were lots of questions:

“Why is that one a different colour?”

“What is that long thing at the top?”

“What is the cage for?” 
 
We are looking forward to finding out the answers.

The children were intrigued this morning when they saw posters in the classroom.

“Eggs are coming in here, look it says on the poster.”

“A new bird is coming in an egg.”

“I think it’s a chick because there is one on the poster.”

“It’s like Easter, we might get some new toy chicks.”

The children had a fantastic day taking part in our Euro celebration. They made flags, listented to classic football songs and had their own game of football.

Thank you for a wonderful day Class 1.

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We are reading Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine. We decided to invent our own medicines.

We even made them as part of our outdoor learning. I don’t think anyone would want to taste them!

We enjoyed designing our own kites. We followed our designs and tried them out. Class 2 are now real inventors in the making!