Egg-citing News!

Reception and Primary 1 would like to share some ‘egg-citing’ news! 

We have been busy looking at life cycles as part of our Explanation writing genre in Literacy. 

To make learning more real we undertook a project of hatching eggs in our classroom, so we could observe each step of the life cycle of a hen.

Miss McFlynn brought in some eggs from home and our very own class incubator to get the project started. 

On day 8 of the 21 day cycle we took part in a candling experiment, to see if we could spot any chick embryos inside the egg. It was a great success and very cool to see!

On day 20 we began to see our first little fluffy friend appear and even managed to capture it on camera!

A little yellow chick appeared first, followed by a small brown one, a black one and overnight 9 more chicks had also joined the brood, making it a complete hatch!

It has been an amazing learning experience for us all; there was a real buzz across the school and a camera on hand so everyone could share in the experience. 

We created our own explanation text of the life cycle of a hen and was able to use our real life images as inspiration.

This has been amazing experience and we will never forget!🐥💛