PELC - Preston

Baby Chicks!

We read books about chicks and showed the children a video, which the upstairs teachers shared with us. In the video, the Educators captured the moments when chicks started hatching.

The chicks remained in the incubator until their feathers dried a little. After their feathers dried, the Educators moved the chicks to a box with food and water and a hanging heat lamp above the box.

After showing the video of hatching the eggs, we invited our children upstairs where they could see the real chicks. When they saw the chicks they were so excited to touch and pet them.
The children took turns interacting with chicks and petting them gently.
They used their sensory skills while they felt the texture of the chicks. They all developed their social skills and language skills playing with the chicks. Their expressions were priceless, as they touched chicks with their gentle hands.

Here is the continuation of our egg project journey…

After arranging the eggs to come to our Centre, we were in need of an incubator.
After thorough research, we found a high-quality incubator and shared our excitement with our families.
When we shared this information, two of our preschool families the Kohlenberg’s and the Chavady’s offered to help purchase an incubator for our classroom, so we could continue our egg investigation and wonder.

Before we proceeded with the next step, we made sure the children learned the steps we needed to take before the real eggs arrived. The children had an opportunity to learn about an incubator's functions by pressing buttons and placing fake eggs inside and watching them automatically turn.

The next step was to prepare the incubator by washing it and setting the right temperature and humidity level.
After we finally placed the eggs into the incubator, each morning the children were asked to see the eggs, ask questions about them, and wonder when will the chickens hatch, they would touch an incubator, making sure the eggs were safe.

We are excited to see where will this journey take us…

We are sending a big Thank You to our families who helped us further our project.

Our Egg / Chicken Project!

As the children’s curiosity and interest in eggs grew, we explored and learned new information about them through encyclopedias, books, hands-on experiments and conversations.

Our classroom decided to further investigate this project by adding real fertilized chicken eggs into our classroom and continuing our research together.

We would like to say thank you to the Young family who helped us get the eggs which provided a great opportunity to further our wonder.

Stay tuned...

Dinosaur’s Breakfast Club!

Children’s imagination and creativity are limitless…

For a while now our preschoolers have been demonstrating a deep inquiry about dinosaurs and kitchen dramatic play.
This time the two activities merged. Dinosaurs had to wash and dry their hands, teeth and body before they sat at the table to eat breakfast.

Children set up the table, making sure there were enough utensils, plates and food for each dinosaur.
Finally, the children agreed that dinosaurs can have pasta and milk for breakfast.
They shared food for each dinosaur and later on, discussed that some dinosaurs need to have a nap after.

While playing, interacting and sharing thoughts, the children transferred very important skills they learned at home and at the centre regarding family/dinner time and routine.