This week we have been exploring our art skills further looking at landscapes, perspective and line. The children seem to have an appetite for creating power point presentations so despite preparing a class talk for home work, they have set off independently, and are creating a presentation in class on a topic of their choice. We are continuing to explore the work of the Wright brothers and their introduction of wing warping with some flight trials of our own.
On Wednesday, The children had to problem solve the mystery of the eggs – What type of eggs were we going to incubate and how long was the incubation period? It took some time for them to work out what question/s to put in the search engines as they worked through the thinking process and the clues. We had many suggestions such as chickens, crocodiles, turkeys, peacocks, choughs and ducks. Each one was crossed off as they found the incubation was took too long, that they were definitely bird eggs, they could be bought in shops for eating, and no, Mrs Smith was not going to take home snakes or an emu once they had hatched!

This is what the Quail eggs look like.

The children are charged with monitoring and turning the eggs, they go in the incubator today and should hatch on Mon 25th June (fingers crossed).