EGG-citing Lessons in GATE!

Pictures were 'larger than life' as the illustrations in The Talking Eggs  were projected using our Elmo document camera and Promethean board.  In class last week, the students listened to this story by Robert San Souci.  This folktale is from the South and depicts a mother and two sisters...one is evil and the other good.  It is along the lines of Cinderella in that one has to clean and cook while the other is a lady of leisure with the mother.  The illustrations are detailed and colorful, the language is fun and interesting, while the story teaches a lesson.

Students created several types of "beautiful eggs" from the story:  torn paper eggs, shaving cream swirled eggs, and blown out marbleized eggs.  The marbleized eggs are gorgeous!  Thank you all for blowing out the eggs at home and sending them to class.  I hope you will enjoy having these at home and I hope the students will always remember our story, creating the eggs, and our GATE class.

Students were asked to write "the moral of the story."  I was most impressed with their ideas and answers! These "morals" written by the students are hung on a bulletin board in the hall outside our classroom with our beautiful eggs.  I wanted to share a few of the quotes with you.  Below the quotes will be pictures from our GATE egg-citing lessons. Enjoy!

• "If you are nice and kind to people, you'll get something in return."  by Jonce
• "Do not be selfish, greedy, and mean, but be nice."  by Giovanny
• "Point of this story was that never want what other people have."  by Jose'
• "Treat others like you would want to be treated."  by Grace Anne
• "You only get out of life what you put into it."  by Isabella
• "The lesson of this story is to do what you're told." by Jordan
• "The lesson was be nice and obey and keep your promises." by Melodie
• "I think this story's lesson is that you always need to be thankful for what you get."  by Layken
• "The moral of this story is to always listen. Mostly to adults."  by Ebony

I think they get it!  Read the book and enjoy!