Egg-citing learning in senior infants!🐣

Our Senior Infants have begun an exciting duck hatching project in the classroom! 🥚

We carefully placed 12 duck eggs in the incubator and have been learning about what eggs need in order to grow and develop. 🌡️

This week we also carried out our first candling session 🔦, where we used a light to look inside the eggs. We were excited to see tiny veins forming in some of the eggs, which shows that little ducklings are beginning to grow! From our observations, we think 8 of the eggs are fertilised and 4 are unfertilised.

So far, the children have been learning about the life cycle of a duck, the parts of an egg, and how the incubator works 🦆. They have also been making predictions and asking lots of interesting questions as we follow the development of the eggs.

We placed the eggs in the incubator on Monday, February 23rd 📅. It takes approximately 28 days for the ducklings to grow and hatch, so we are hoping they will arrive during the week beginning Monday, March 23rd.

We are all very excited and are looking forward to watching the eggs develop over the coming weeks! 🐥