Eggstra Eggstra...Read All About It!

     A large focus of first grade is to get students excited about learning to read and write because it provides so much of the needed foundation for future learning. Our TIC Program is a tremendous aide in making it easy to get students excited about both! My class is ready to share what we are learning through our TIC Program through writing.  We are working toward writing a book about our program while writing nonfiction and fiction stories about Brook Trout. We are eager to begin!

Yesterday we talked about how to have fun and play with words as seen in the title of our post. We have also discussed punctuation and how to express our feelings with our writing. Our challenge for this post was expressing our excitement about the arrival of our trout eggs through a sign that we could hang on our tank while the cover is on the front helping to set a dark calming environment for our eggs to hatch and the tiny alevin to gently enter their new environment.

We also discussed reading with expression as we took turns reading the sign in different ways. We built the sentence word by word choosing the correct punctuation. Imagine these smiling faces reading these words with expression...makes me smile...I can still hear them saying...Oh Yeah!