Frogs - Day 3

Reading Core Standard - Reading Standards for Informational Text1
Preparation
This will be asking and answering questions about the text. 
Materials.
book - I used Gail Gibbons Frogs again
Teaching
1. Read book Frogs by Gail Gibbons.  Ask your child questions about the book.  Ask if they have questions.

Phonics Core Standard - Phonological Awareness 2.b.
Preparation
Write the following words on a piece of paper:
hibernation, camouflage, webbed, amphibians, vegetarian, algae, frog, tadpole, egg, gills, tail, legs, insects, water
Divide a piece of paper into five sections and number 1-5
Materials
word strips
divided paper
glue stick
Teaching
1. Sound out each word for your child.  Count together the number of syllables in each word. 
2. Have child glue the word under the number corresponding to the amount of syllables in the word.
3. Go through each word again.
4.Sound out the single syllable words together

Writing Core Standard Text Types and Purposes 2
Preparation
Create a mini Book.  Write "Frogs can" on Title page and each page in the book (your choice if you want one idea per two page spread, or 2 ideas per two sheet spread)
Materials
Mini book
Markers

Teaching
1. Ask your child some things that frogs can do that they learned from teh book.
2.Write, or have your child write, what frogs can do.  For example: "Frogs can jump."  The child will write "jump."

3.Have child illustrate the book.

4.Have child read the book to you.

Math Core Standard - Geometry - Identify and Describe Shapes 2
Preparation
Prepare a piece of paper with a circle, square, rectangle, triangle, and hexagon for you and ond one for your child
Materials
Shape Paper
Crayon
Teaching
1. Go on a shape scavenger hunt.  Walk your house, and/or neighborhood to find real-life shapes.
2.When you or your child finds a shape, they color it in on the paper.
3 The first person to find all shapes on their sheet is the winner.
Shapes We Found:

Art
Preparation
Find the page in Gail Gibbon's Frogs that shows a frog's body parts.
Materials
Picture
Playdough
Teaching
1. Have your child create a frog with the playdough, making sure they show all the parts of the frog (eyes, mouth, front and back legs, ridges on back).
2. The easiest way to do this is to make each part seperately (body with ridges, add head, add eyes, add front legs, add back legs, add tongue).

My Frog

William's Frog

**You can also make the frog life cycle, creating a frog egg, tadpole, and morphing it into the frog**

Materials