What an exciting
week we have had in the Cooper room this week! We have been buzzing with
excitement since the arrival of our chicken eggs at the start of the week. When
we arrived at ELC on Tuesday morning we noticed something amazing had happened,
2 chickens had hatched from their eggs. Upon looking at the other eggs that
were in the incubator, the children made observations that some of them had
large cracks and holes in them. It wasn’t long before we were able to witness a
chicken hatching out of its egg. It was an amazing experience which the children
were thrilled to be able to watch.
Lotti – We need to
give them some food because they might be starving. We need to take the fluffy,
furry ones out.
Brian – We have 10
eggs and they hatched.
Xavier C – Hatched
Ned – Now we can
see the chickens inside.
Quinn – The eggs
cracked.
Yash – Chicken come
out of egg.
Emilia – Someone
needs to look after them. We could look after them.
Miss Gilbert – What
do you think we would need to do to look after our chickens?
Lotti – We need to
put some food and water and a blanket in there to keep them nice and warm.
Isaac C – They need
a blanket.
Quinn – Be really
gentle.
Emilia – Be really
gentle with them.
Sebastian
B – I don’t want to hold them.
Isaac B – Very
gentle.
Aaron – We should
talk quietly.
From these
discussions we have created a list of rules that we need to follow when
watching or holding the chickens. The children have been extremely engaged in
the learning journey that we have been on with the chickens. We will have the
chickens in the classroom until next week when the company Living Eggs will
come to collect them from us. They mentioned that families are able to purchase
these chickens to take home, they are $2 each and the money goes towards the charity
Oxfam. Let me know if this is something that you are interested in doing.
We hope that you
have a wonderful weekend.
Love Miss Gilbert
and My Ty
