CHANGES of a different kind!

In the last week of term, our class visited Room 14. They had an incubator in their room and they had been keeping chicken and duck eggs warm for three weeks. It takes 21 days for a chick to hatch.this was good maths for us to work out how many weeks that was. We skip counted in 7s and some people knew 7 x 3 = 21. They 'candled' the eggs and that showed them the baby chicks through the shell. You hold a bright torch light up to the egg in a dark space to do this. We saw the baby chicks and when they were big enough to hold, we held them. All you could hear was "Cheep, cheep, cheep!" We loved this experience. We knew we had to be gentle and quiet to keep the chicks safe. It was really amazing to see the different colourings of the chicks. We saw a poster showing the stages of how a chicken hatches. It was a flow diagram. We had been learning about flow diagrams in class.