Star laid her first egg!!

We were so excited to find a teeny tiny egg in the nesting box of our hen house yesterday morning! This teeny tiny egg belongs to our youngest chicken Star! We have had Star since she was a one day old chick! 

Look at how small her egg is compared to a normal sized hen egg! 

 

Can you spot the teeny tiny egg?  

 

Star when she was a baby chick just one week old! 

 

Our Performance: The Gumboot Song

On Friday night we had our Gore Main End of Year Concert. We sung and danced to The Gumboot Song and absolutely loved it!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Concert Posters

Our inquiry this term is 'What makes a performance?' This links with our school concert. The children have been busy today creating posters to advertise the school concert. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicken Update

Our chickens are producing fantastic eggs! Here is a photo Miss McKenzie received early one morning of a happy young lady eating her Gore Main egg! She said it tasted delicious!! 

 

We are needing some help with our Gore Main hens over the school holidays! If you live close to the school and are happy to help look after the hens over the school holidays please keep your eyes and ears open as Miss McKenzie will be handing out application forms so you can apply to look after the hens for a period of time. Miss McKenzie will in touch with the families who are successful and provide training! 

Free Range Chooks

Our hens are enjoying their free range life and the children and teachers  are enjoying having them around! They are so friendly that they will let us pat them and pick them up! 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank You Duncan and Gus

Our Hen House Is Complete!!

Our inquiry project is complete with the addition of 4 new laying hens to our hen house. The new hens have been laying eggs daily and today we sent home our very first carton of Gore Main School eggs to Caedyn's Dad and Grandad who built the hen house.

Our hens are called:

Chickaletta

Dixie

Mrs Big Feathers

Blossom

They are very happy in their new house and have gotten used to being the centre of attention in Gore Main very quickly! The kids even got to pat them today!! 

Click on the link that says 'inquiry' to the left of this post to see our inquiry journey. 

Here are some photos of the completed project and the first dozen eggs. We can't wait to start selling our eggs! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Egg Carton Labels

Looked at the designs on egg cartons from the supermarket and decided what we liked and didn't like about these.
We made a list of things that egg cartons need to have on them. Next we designed our own egg carton labels. Some of us worked with a buddy and others worked independently.

We are all super proud of our designs and Miss McKenzie is super proud of us too!
We created these on google slides.

 














 

Staining the henhouse

Today we stained the henhouse! It was a fantastic experience for the kids and they learnt how to use a paint brush and apply the stain evenly. They didn't even get too messy!