Our Class Blog

Friday 11th May
In Design Technology we have been looking at structures, we are now going to design structures that could go on our playground.
Geography lessons have also been exciting, we have found local schools on maps and plan to visit them to see what their play areas are like so we can compare them with our own. Our school has a playground, an area where we can play in any weather and a field. However, the field does not just belong to us, so the general public walk on it too. We would love to hear from any other schools, what are your play areas like? Do you have lots of play equipment? Hope to hear from you soon!

Monday ~ Day 8

Over the weekend our baby chicks have changed so much. They have grown feathers on their wings and are quite a bit bigger. This afternoon we are going to have them out on the carpet. We hope they won’t poo everywhere!

Thursday/Friday ~ Day 4/5

Our 10 lovely chicks are all doing well.
They are eating chick-stock (pelets) at the moment and drinking water.
They are all looking much more confident and their strength has improved.
Trev is taking them home for the weekend. We are going to miss them.

Wednesday ~ Day 3

We have 9 chicks!
One hatched after school yesterday, then last night 7 more cracked open! This morning when Trev our Caretaker arrived he found another one on it’s way. By the time we all got into the classroom 9 had been born. Trev had moved the first 8 out of the incubator and into the brooder. The ninth chick needed a bit longer in the incubator to gain it’s strength.

We have learnt that:

Incubators - are where eggs with chicks inside are kept. The temperature is controlled and has to stay around 37 degrees. A container is filled with water which evaporates to keep the air moist. This preevnts the egg shells from becoming too hard. The shells must be soft otherwise the chicks would not be able to push through.

Brooders - are where the chicks are kept once they have hatched and are a bit stronger. The floor of the brooder is covered with newspaper and wood shavings. It has a light at one end to keep the chicks warm and at the opposite end food pelets and water are put out.

Tuesday ~ Day 2

Pipping has begun. This is when the chicks begin to tap their way through the shell of the egg. Even though you can’t see them yet, if you listen carefully you can hear little chirping sounds. It is really funny to watch the eggs inside the incubator wobbling about as the chicks try to break the shell. Eggs 2, 6 and 8 are moving the most. How much longer? Which will be first? We can’t wait!

Newsflash
This afternoon we noticed that eggs 3 and 5 have both got cracks! Just before the end of school number 5 pushed a tiny bit of shell away! Through the hole we can see a beak!!

Newsflash
It is 3.50 pm and 5 minutes ago (3.45pm) our first chick was born. Sadly the children have all gone home but I have taken some photographs and a short film for them to watch tomorrow.
The egg already had a small hole which gradually made a crack around the egg. Suddenly, the chick pushed the shell apart and it fell into two halves. The chick was exhausted and lay really still for a few seconds breathing heavily, then it tried to stand up and fell over! It was really wet to begin with but the warm air inside the incubator is now beginning to dry it’s body.
Miss Dunnell.

Monday ~ Day 1

Eggciting news…
We have had an unusual delivery, of eggs! A man called Simon came into our class today with 10 eggs and 2 strange boxes. One of the boxes he called an incubator and the other, a brooder. He eggsplained to us that it was Year 3’s job to look after the eggs for the next two weeks.
Some of us wondered what might be inside the eggs. Maybe dinosaurs, snakes, chicks, ducklings or perhaps scrambled egg. Then we remembered that Miss Dunnell and Mr Gascoyne had chicks in their classroom’s last year!
Simon said that they may begin to hatch as early as tomorrow afternoon. We have numbered the eggs 1 - 10 and have all bet on which egg we think will be the first to hatch.
Keep checking our blog for all the latest chick news.

At Priestsic School we are lucky enough to have our own allotment. This week we went there as part of our Materials Science Project. We are making a Viking board game and have decided that the best material to use for the playing pieces would be small stones. Here are some we gathered along with pictures from our allotment.

Can you guess what type of flowers Yr 6 are growing for Mother’s Day?

In Design and Technology we have been learning that 3D shapes and objects can be made from nets. We had great fun making these cars as well as some new 3D shapes we’ve learnt about in Maths.

Thank you everyone for your fantastic comments. They were all really helpful and have given us lots of ideas for our class blog. Fellow bloggers are all so friendly! We look forward to getting in touch with all the schools that have left us comments.

This week we have been busy writing instructions for magic tricks and have also performed a magic show to Years 1 and 2. We have even made weapons and armour and dressed up as Viking warriors to raid the other Year 3 class!! Keep visiting our blog to see pictures of all the fun we have here in Year 3.

Hello, we have just set up our class blog.

We are Miss Dunnell’s Year 3 class at Priestsic Primary School in Nottinghamshire.

We are really excited about blogging but we are also a little bit nervous as we have never done this before. Have you got a classroom blog? If so are there any tips you could share with us?

Thankyou, we hope to hear from lots of you soon.