“We have been having so much fun at Miss Moncreaff’s house! We have been sleeping soundly most of the time as well as having lots of cuddles! One of us keeps sitting in the food bowl but, as comfy as we are, we can’t wait to come back to school to see you all!

Lots of love,

The Chicks xxx”

“We have been having a lovely time staying with Miss Moncreaff! On the way home we were very noisy because the car isn’t quite as warm as the heat lamp. We fell over like dominoes at every single roundabout! Once we got home Miss Moncreaff cleaned us out and gave us some fresh water and food. We have had lots of cuddles and keep falling asleep!

After a lovely night sleeping we woke up to fresh grapes. We didn’t know what they were and kept treading on them instead of eating them so Miss Moncreaff had to give us a bath to wash our feet! We disapproved. We will be sure to write again tomorrow! Lots of love,

The Chicks xxxx

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I would just like to say a MASSIVE Well Done for Seahorse Class’s fabulous assembly this morning! I am very proud of every single one of them and expect you are too!

In other news, the last of the chicks has hatched! We have 6 in total and hear that this is a very good hatch rate!

Miss Moncreaff

We have two problems in reception!

1. We have found homes for the hens at the end of our chick experience, but not for the males! Could you be their next home?

2. We would love to display pictures of men with pens in their hands to motivate our boys to write! Would your Dad/Brother/Babysitter/Dog like to be photographed for the cause? Please send a photo in if you can!

Miss Rhoades and Miss Moncreaff

So far we have …

Buddy

Little Chicky

Jesus

Daniel

These were names chosen and voted on by the children, as we thought they were all boys. The lemon chicks are male, and they all seemed lemon when they first arrived but some of them are looking like they might need new names!

Watch this space for more updates!

Miss Moncreaff and Miss Rhoades

Have a look at the videos of our first hatched chick! He keeps falling asleep standing up and is very entertaining! Click the links below to see him.

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Miss Rhoades and Miss Moncreaff

Home Learning Pyramid …please click here!

Please click on the link to open up our new home learning pyramid for our new topic ‘Growing Up’. A paper copy will be given out this week in your child’s home learning diary.

Your children may have been telling you about some new arrivals!

Tomorrow we will be receiving an incubator with around 10 eggs and they take about 2 days to hatch. 12-24 hours after this we will be able to pick them up! It is all very exciting and we will be sure to keep you posted through photos and blog posts.

Your child will learn all about how to look after the chicks, how eggs work, where they come from and much, much more- Watch this space!

Miss Moncreaff

This week your home learning is to complete the WOW badge design in your child’s home learning diaries.

This is our last week on our current topic of artists. We will therefore be sending out a new home learning pyramid next week for our new context ‘growing up’. To excite the children we have organised to look after and care for some chick eggs next week which will hopefully hatch!! The children are extremely excited about this and we cannot wait to see what will hatch from the eggs! We have also been finding out about what the children already know and we are so impressed with all of the facts the children know about baby animals and life cycles! Well done Year R!