Meaurement.

The kids in Kiwi have been learning about measurement.  They have been using some fantastic language to order and compare objects by length, weight and volume. Here you can see two boys very carefully (using a non-standard measurement tool)  measure the length of a taped line.

And here you can see some of the language that the kids are learning about measurement when comparing themselves. 

  

Its been an EGGciting week in Kiwi

On Monday 10 fertilised eggs arrived with their incubator and brooding box.   The kids in Kiwi were pretty excited about what was about to happen and had soooo many wonderings about our new additions.
Word soon got around the school that the Kiwi classes had something exciting going on and each morning we were greeted by children (and parents) from all over the school coming to check on our eggs and chicks progress.
Hayley and Mrs Cullen won our in house guess of how many would hatch on what day (6 on Wednesday)
Its so great to see our Kiwi Kiddies be the experts and be able to answer the questions from the older kids!  During week 9 we will be continuing our inquiry into chickens and be looking at the life cycle as well as researching some of the wonderings that the kids have about our chicks.

Below are some videos we have collected so far.
A day in the life of the Chick in the incubator (if you watch closely there is a chick hatching towards the end of this clip)

For those classes that missed a hatching, here is a clip.

Kiwi will have plenty of opportunities to interact with the chicks during week 9, and other classes are invited to book in with Ms Grant if they want to visit and interact with them too.

We've got Kiwi eggs

Today our surprise for the Kiwi kids (& Ms. Gooch) arrived... 10 wee chicken eggs are sitting in an incubator waiting to hatch in K3.
-It was very cute to find a bunch of kids doing their SSR to the eggs this morning (they are obviously taking their jobs as midwives seriously!) 

By Friday they should have all hatched into chicks and during week 9 a lot of our patterns inquiry will be around the life cycle of chickens.
Please pop in and say hello to our 10 newest Kiwis and don't forget to email us any conversations you have with your kids about the eggs and chicks.
Next week we will be able to handle the chicks, so if you're free for a half hour or more to help out with this please let your classroom teacher know (or see me, Gina.)

From the Kiwi Teachers.

P.S. I saw one of the eggs wobbling in the incubator when I was leaving this evening....