While we were on our trip, we had an egg-citing delivery! 

An incubator arrived with ten living eggs in it. They were brought to us with a hatch date of Wednesday.

We noticed a crack appear on one of them on Tuesday afternoon but nothing more. Sure enough Wednesday was the day... 8 chicks hatched! On Thursday a ninth chick took most of the day to hatch and arrived just before home time. It was eggs-hausted! 

We had discussed with the children that in nature not all animals survive and we had touched upon this in our food chain work the previous week. The children understood that not all animals will survive. We believe that egg number ten will not hatch but we will leave it in the incubator over the weekend just to be sure.

The children are fascinated by life cycles and are confident with frogs, chicks and butterflies. Our writing box and walls are full of posters, paintings, drawing and writing about life cycles and food chains.

In PE the children were chicks and had to follow Mr. Tumble's instructions really carefully.

In forest school the children did some nature weaving using leaves and grass that they found. We have one giant frame made from large sticks and some smaller frames from sticks the children collected. 

Mrs. Johnson and her children, are looking forward to hosting the chicks in the Johnson Chick Hotel over the weekend.