Chickens poo eggs??

Every Friday two chickens come and visit the Early Childhood area- they have a special transportable mini-coop. The children enjoy patting and holding the chickens with the science assistant, and checking for eggs, and just watching them doing their chicken-y thing.

One of the girls in my class came and asked me a very serious question. She's not a very chatty girl (at least not to me!). Her words are in red, mine in blue, just to make reading easier.

"Mrs. Prangnell, the chicken did something!"

So we walk over and have a look. "What did it do?'

"It was over there, and something came out of its' butt."

"What do you think it was?"

"I think it did a poo!"

"You're right, it did a poo, and you got to see it!" She was happy and wandered off.

A little while later, she came back and told me she thought the chicken was laying an egg because it was sitting there and shaking a little. (I looked, it was sitting and breathing). This obviously got her thinking, as she came up a little while later and asked...

"Where do chicken's eggs come from?"

So, I told her it was like pooing, except chickens have a special place where eggs come out. It was the best I could do at short notice! I mentioned it to her dad, just in case she decided to let them know that chickens poo eggs.

Later she came up to tell me that the chicken stepped in its poo.

from Heather

My first week as a Pre-Primary teacher has passed reasonably uneventfully. I am still learning all the "rules"- the little things that have been happening or not happening in thelast 3 terms but aren't written down anywhere!

We went to the Perth Zoo on Friday, and had a Bush Party where the children dressed up like native animals and found out more about them. After that, we had lunch and split up into smaller groups to explore. My group, of course, arrived at the elephants just in time to see one (rear end towards the kids) have a MASSIVE poo and buckets of wee. Do the kids remember much else from the zoo? No, just the elephant...

I've been riding David's push bike to work. It is a very manly, rugged mountain bike- I put a fuzzy seat cover on it. One of the students saw me putting on athe blue helmet and said, "That's a boy's helmet!" I replied with "Its okay, I ride a mountain bike." And he totally accepted that answer as reasonable. Does that mean I have the logic of a 5 year old?

:) Heather

Heather's back in Australia

Hello All,

I (Heather) am back in Australia. Currently I am living with David's parents, but hope to move in with a friend soon. I have work at the private school associated with the church we've been attending while in Australia, as a term 4 relief teacher in pre-primary.