Creating Our " An Egg Is Quiet" Journals

Last week, we began creating journals to document our journey of hatching baby ducks in our classroom.

We used the book, An Egg Is Quiet by Dianna Hutts Aston as our mentor text.

 

We have also been studying non-fiction text features such as table of contents, headings, and labels. We have applied all of these features to our journals!

 

We started by creating the front cover. We used labeling and fancy font to make the cover more attractive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also glued our summary on the back and annotated to help us understand and remember. 

 

Annotation codes

W: something I wonder about

Circled word: a word I don't recognize

Heart: something I love

Star: important part

 

 

 

Next we began our table of contents:

 

 

 

 

We learned that the heading on the table of contents has to match with the heading on the page.  We also learned that the page numbers  have to match up as well.

 

On page 3, we wrote about the importance of our incubator:

 

"The incubator is like the mama duck."

 

"The incubator is like the mama duck.  It keeps the eggs warm so that they can survive."

 

"It keeps the eggs warm so they can survive."

 

 

After that, we learned about other animals that lay eggs besides ducks. We read the book, Chicken's Aren't The Only Ones  by Ruth Heller to learn more information.

 

 

We documented our learning on page 4:

Lastly, we learned that eggs come in different sizes. The ostrich egg is the largest and the hummingbird egg is the smallest. We illustrated and labeled this on page 5:

 

 

Whew! That was a long post! I am so excited about the way these journals are turning out! I cannot wait to continue sharing their hard work with you!