This morning, while outside admiring our new den making area, the children found some very strange egg-shaped objects inside, what appeared to be, a nest!
The children examined the objects and found they were cold, hard and smooth. Some children thought they were balloons filled with ice. Other children thought they might be eggs from an animal such as a giant bird, a dragon or a dinosaur. We left some of the eggs in the nest and brought a few of them inside to look more closely at them.
The children looked really carefully at the 'eggs' and drew some fantastic observational drawings of what they could see. The ice-eggs in the classroom started to melt whilst the ones outside stayed solid. Some of the children had fantastic ideas about where the eggs had come from and were able to write and draw about their ideas. The ice-eggs in the classroom melted into water by the end of the day but the ice-eggs outside were still there at hometime. I wonder if they will still be there on Monday morning...watch this space!
Ice Eggs in the outdoor
