_fct679x509x118.0_ct1880x930.jpg "EGG-CITED: Warwick Central State School Year 3 student Owen Rogers gets up close to the 'reading bug egg' delivered to the school yesterday morning.")
No egg-aggerating big find for Warwick Central students
STUDENTS at Warwick Central State School have taken delivery of an egg-citing find ahead of the launch of the school's reading bug program.
A giant "reading bug egg", discovered by Hermitage farmer Patrick McConville, was carefully delivered to the school assembly by tractor yesterday.
The egg will be the centrepiece of the school's 10-week reading program.
Teacher Ellen McConville said the egg would be incubated by the children reading to it.
"Mayor Peter Blundell will be coming to the school to read to the egg," she said.
"Every Wednesday we'll have a celebrity come and read to the egg."
Students will dress up as reading bugs to celebrate the start of the program tomorrow.
Mrs McConville said the students had been asking when the egg would hatch.
"The children are very excited," she said.
"We're trying to really generate the idea of the program and the egg will help."
