Personal, Social & Emotional DevelopmentObserve eggs hatching.Care for chicks in brooder box, handle chicks takingturns under supervision (wash hands).Watch chicks grow and move in various environments,observe characteristics.

Children develop set of rules to care for chicks.Take turns to feed, water and help clean chicks.Circle time to share feelings about looking after chicks and caringfor living things/each other.Explore significance of Easter/new life/change and preparepresentation for whole school.Invite parents or pre school children.

Thematic Planning with Living EggsTwo weeks of teaching and learning with hundreds of resources supplied

EYFSSo many opportunities for:

• Playing and exploring• Active learning• Creating and thinking critically

So much morethan just fluffy

chicks!

Excellent resources on www.livingeggs.co.uk and on our CD to enhance this learning! Phone 08700 666 534 or email info@livingeggs.co.uk

Communications & LanguageChildren help plan the topic — what dothey already know andwhat do they wantto find out?Ask questions of Living Eggs staff and beready to provide explanations to othersabout the chicks.

Listen to stories, e.g. Rosie’s Walk, The Cow That Laid An Egg.Children plan a role play area, e.g. vet, pet shop, farm.Act out story — Little Red Hen, Chicken Licken.Imagine and role play being inside an eggusing giant cardboard box.Listen to chick sounds, record and describe.Share information in whole school assembly.

LiteracyCollect “ch” and/or “ck”words and display readyto use on Working Wall — ongoing.Explore Big Books about chick hatching, makeown simple information books—Egg toChicken.Make a class diary, big book.Speech bubbles/thought bubbles for chicks.Provide a range of non-fiction books about eggs/chicks/hens andother egg-hatching creatures for independent andguided reading.Write invitations to parents/pre school to visit the chicks.Writingmaterials in role play area for vet, farmer, shopkeeper to use.Children put own labels onposter of chicken/chicks/different eggs.

MathematicsObserve chicks hatching, record numbers.Pictorial representation of chicks, eggs, count them.Count one more/less chick etc.Place chicks in various places in, out aroundbrooder box, childrendescribe position.

Remove chicks from box, how many in box? How many out?Weigh chicks over time / measure them using unifix.Make a chick out of 2D shapes: identify/count the shapes used.Use chick puppet to count, pupils correct errors.Sing Ten Little Chicks Sitting on a Wall.

Physical DevelopmentDevelop dance drama to show hatchingexperience, pipping, cracking, falling out ofshell, tentative steps, becomingmore confident.Add percussion instruments for effect.Compare own diet to a chick’s diet to keephealthy.Can you build an enclosure out of big bricks?How high so that chicks do not escape?Cutting/folding cards and models.Shape/mould/stick glue chick art.Handle chicks carefully using good hygiene.Adapt 5 Little Ducks to 5 Little Chicks, sing/act.Make chick world in outside area.

Expressive Arts & DesignObservational drawings of chicks.Small world farm activities.Decorated eggs for Easter.Re-enact animal stories/rhymes.Learn the Chicken Dance.Make chick cards for Easter etc.BakeEaster cakes/chick cookies.Make brooder boxes out of old shoe boxes, fill with pom pomchicks.Make chicks and/or nests fromdough, clay, wool, tissue or feathers.Take photos of children and chicks, add captions, make cards.

I’m a boy(Lemon)

I’m a girl(Brown)

Living EggsUnderstanding the WorldCompare themselves to chicks,similarities/differences.Cooking different types of egg.Look at properties hard/soft.Make junk model chick homes.Digital photography.Use magnifying glass to look atchicks, draw,talk aboutfeatures theylike and dislike.What else liveson a farm?Convert roleplay area toa farm. Observe/record changes in chicks.

Learn about life cycle ofchick, sort and order.

ScienceE Stories (PowerPoints) provided on CD— basic to advanced.Life cycles.Prediction of hatching.Recording opportunities.Growth/movement of a living creature.

Classification of living things.Cells and reproduction.Habitats.Food chains and webs.Survival.First hand observational skills.Understanding a fair test.Experiments using eggs — see CD.

So much more than just fluffy chicks!

Creative Curriculum and Thematic Planning with Living EggsTwo weeks of teaching and learning with hundreds of resources supplied

Excellent resources on www.livingeggs.co.uk and on our CD to enhance this learning! Phone 08700 666 534 or email info@livingeggs.co.uk

Art and Design/Design & TechnologyMosaics using egg shells.Observational sketching painting.Clay nests with straw • Collage.Design/build a permanent home for chicks.Navajo chick art — www.tribalworks.com.Tuscany Rooster — Amberson Art.

ICTDigital camera.Web cam.CD resources.Internet research.Assembly PowerPoint templateprovided.Website update.Use Roamer or other software to map route of Rosie (Rosie’sWalk) or other characters, e.g. BeeBot for Little Red Hen.Email to collaborative school.

LiteracyDiary — basic and more advanced.Poetry.

Write topic booklet foryounger children.Writing across the curriculum.Write descriptions.Write a letter of thanks.Writing invitations/instructions.Write newspaper report.

Story writing based on a picture.Story board/folding booklet.Observation and vocabulary.Read a variety of fiction and non-fictionbooks e.g. ‘The Living Egg’ book.Listening/Speaking — Discussion topicson CD.Dramatise with puppets.Act out a fiction book you have read.Research/Fact File/Reports.

My Chick Diary

CitizenshipEnquiry.Independent and collaborative learning.Resourcefulness.Teamwork.Listening to and following instructions.

DisplayWhole school display — features fromeach class (photos, art work, writing etc).See ‘Images from Living EggsClassrooms’ on CD.

MathsShape.Mass.Counting and rounding off.Estimation and measurement.Standard vs non-standardmeasurements.Plot graphs of weight gain over time.Compare quantity of food to rate of growth.

Rules.Discuss hygiene andsafety needs.Caring for living things.

Life anddeath.Teamwork.Responsibility.

Books and other resourcesLiving Eggs CD and website www.livingeggs.co.ukAnimal Life Cycles, Crabtree 978-0-7787-2312-7

Where do Chicks Come From? Amy Sklansky. Harper Trophy978-0-06-445212-0

Rosie’s Walk, 978-0020437505Little Red Hen, 978-0027328202

HumanitiesContrasting locality — rural life/city life.Balance of nature in environment and farming.Environmental projects.Easter celebrations/Harvest celebrations.

Community CohesionInvite parents andgrandparents to see the chicks.Share with local pre school groups.Link with other schools and complete sharedproject.

I’m a boy(Lemon)

I’m a girl(Brown)

PSHCEMusic

Chick songs • Chicken danceComposition e.g. Rosie’s WalkLittle Red Hen.Carnival of Animals.Make musical instruments.Listen and respond to music.Carnival of Animals — Saint Saens

Living EggsKS1 KS2