OUR HENNY PENNY CHICKENS

This term we have some chicks and some eggs that will hatch. We are keeping them in 2R Shining Stars classroom. The eggs are kept in an incubator which is shaped like a dome. It's a container that is heated.  It has lots of eggs in it. The eggs hatch every day.

When they hatch they are put into a clear plastic enclosure. They have lots of room to walk around and plenty of food and water. The enclosure has 9 chicks in it. They have fluffy, yellow feathers. One of them is fluffy black and she is sleeping right now.  

When they first hatch they look like they are wet, sick and sleeping. This is because they are exhausted from pushing the egg open. When they come out, their heart is beating so very fast. Once they dry and get their strength back, they look happy and healthy. We are happy and proud to have them in our classrooms for a while. :)

The construction site at SJV School

The first day back from holidays we came back and saw there was a construction site at our school. During the holidays the old Hall and the Multipurpose Room were knocked down. The hopscotch courts and the handball courts were gone too, they were dug out by machines. When we came back we saw two diggers, lots of dirt and people who were working at the construction site. One was in the digger, the other ones were working on other things. They were wearing helmets, brightly coloured vests and work boots. There was a giant, wide open space where the school buildings were demolished and a big fence around it. Half our school has vanished!

It's taking up some of our oval space and we don't have our undercover playing area. We have to go to the Pre area to play at second beak. It's really fun there and it's good to be back...it reminds us of prep.

It;s going to take a long time until the new building is finished.

Mrs M sure is going to get a surprise when she comes back.

USING THE BEE BOT

On Thursday we used the Bee bot and our DS's to play a direction game.. The Bee Bot had to start on number one and Sam had to roll the dice and we had to look at the number and work it out and then we had to write it in pictochat on our DS's.

It's like an maths game. A bee bot is a robot that you can program to stop and go -move forwards, backwards, left and  right.  Mrs M got it for us at a work shop. We like the bee bot. Thank you Mrs M!!!!