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50 ©The Mailbox ® • April/May 2013 From intriguing and true to endearing and fanciful, these two selections provide kid-pleasing views of the frog world! Get a lily pad Venn diagram. The Book Corner Pairing Nonfiction and Fiction Frogs Frogs By Gail Gibbons Straightforward text with rich vocabulary explains the life cycle, characteristics, and behaviors of frogs. Share the book with students. Then display a large pond cutout on a bulletin board. Invite students to recall information from the book. Write the details on separate lily pad cutouts and attach them to the pond. Complete the display with construction paper frogs and cattails made by students and the title “Leap Into Science!” For a variation, display programmed lily pads on two pond cutouts: one for how frogs grow and change and one for frog characteristics. Recall key details of a text (RI.1.2) Frog and Toad Are Friends By Arnold Lobel Each brief chapter is a simple and delightful tale of two amphibian pals. To explore the book’s theme, give each student a sheet of paper. Have him divide each side into three sections as shown and then write the book title in the first section. After you read each chapter aloud, in turn, each student writes the chapter title in the next blank section and draws a small relevant illustration. Then he writes how the chapter conveys friendship. Understand a story’s central message (RL.1.2) After Reading Both Books Comparisons are the focus of this center activity. Discuss with students how the books are the same and different. Then place the books at a center along with student copies of a drawing of two large overlapping lily pads (Venn diagram). Flag the pages in Frogs that show the diagrams of frogs and toads. When a student visits the center, he refers to the diagrams as he compares frogs and toads on the lily pad graphic organizer. Or he refers to the fiction book as he compares the characters Frog and Toad. Use text features (RI.1.5), compare and contrast the experiences of characters (RL.1.9) Frog and Toad Are Friends “Spring” “The Story” Frog doesn’t want Toad to miss all the fun. He figures out how to get him out of bed. Frog is sick so Toad tries to think of a story to tell him.

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50 ©The Mailbox® • April/May 2013

Fromintriguingandtruetoendearingandfanciful,thesetwoselectionsprovidekid-pleasingviewsofthefrogworld!

Get a lily pad Venn diagram.

The

Book Corner Pairing Nonfiction and Fiction

Frogs

FrogsBy Gail Gibbons

Straightforwardtextwithrichvocabularyexplainsthelifecycle,characteristics,andbehaviorsoffrogs.

Share the book with students. Then display a large pond cutout on a bulletin board. Invite students to recall information from the book. Write the details on

separate lily pad cutouts and attach them to the pond. Complete the display with construction paper frogs and cattails made by students and the title

“Leap Into Science!” For a variation, display programmed lily pads on two pond cutouts: one for how frogs grow and change and

one for frog characteristics. Recall key details of a text (RI.1.2)

Frog and Toad Are Friends

By Arnold Lobel Eachbriefchapterisasimpleanddelightfultale

oftwoamphibianpals. To explore the book’s theme, give each student a sheet

of paper. Have him divide each side into three sections as shown and then write the book title in the first section. After you read each chapter aloud, in turn, each student

writes the chapter title in the next blank section and draws a small relevant illustration. Then he

writes how the chapter conveys friendship. Understand a story’s central

message (RL.1.2)

After Reading Both BooksComparisons are the focus of this center activity.

Discuss with students how the books are the same and different. Then place the books at a center along with student copies of a drawing of two large overlapping lily

pads (Venn diagram). Flag the pages in Frogs that show the diagrams of frogs and toads. When a student visits the center, he refers to the diagrams as he compares

frogs and toads on the lily pad graphic organizer. Or he refers to the fiction book as he compares the characters Frog and Toad. Use text features

(RI.1.5), compare and contrast the experiences of characters (RL.1.9)

Frog and Toad Are Friends

“Spring”

“The Story”

Frog doesn’t want Toad to miss all the fun. He figures out how to get him out of bed.

Frog is sick so Toad tries to think of a story to tell him.

ACTIVITY SHEET 8 Creating Your Own Frog Habitat · 1. To raise awareness of about the frogs in your local area. 2. To provide a guide for creating your own frog habitat, giving frogs

ACTIVITY SHEET 8 Creating Your Own Frog Habitat · 1. To raise awareness of about the frogs in your local area. 2. To provide a guide for creating your own frog habitat, giving frogs

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Frog Dissection. Comparing frogs with humans Frogs have a lot of the same organs that humans do. By dissecting a frog it will allow us to learn about.

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Frog Facts - Have Fun Teachingfiles.havefunteaching.com/activities/science/frog-facts-true-false... · Frog Facts Learn about frogs in this true or false activity. Place the true

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Mark Twain Museum Frog Lesson legs are also good to eat! Some of Missouri’s common frogs are the Northern Spring Peeper, Green Tree Frog, Gray Tree Frog, Plains Leopard Frog, ...

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ACTIvITY FrOg CrOssINg · become frogs? First, a female frog lays eggs. In time, they hatch as tadpoles. Eventually, tadpoles turn into baby frogs. Whether they grow to be tiny frogs

ACTIvITY FrOg CrOssINg · become frogs? First, a female frog lays eggs. In time, they hatch as tadpoles. Eventually, tadpoles turn into baby frogs. Whether they grow to be tiny frogs

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Frogs · Frog Life Cycle - Egg •Frogs start their lives as an egg. •Frogs lay eggs in blobs of jelly. •This jelly protects the eggs as they grow. Frog Life Cycle - Tadpole •Tadpoles

Time Management: Eat the Frog! · Eat that Frog! “The first rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first. The second rule of frog eating

Time Management: Eat the Frog! · Eat that Frog! “The first rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first. The second rule of frog eating

SINGING FROGS FARM - carcd.orgcarcd.org/docs/american farmland trust/profiles pdf/frogs.pdfPaul and Elizabeth Kaiser operate Singing Frogs Farm in Sebastopol, ... Singing Frog Farms

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Gold Tree Frog€¦ · The gold tree frog and golden flying tree frog are common amphibians to keep. These frogs will change colour depending on temperature meaning they range from

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Frogs - City of Whitehorse · Frogs All of the frogs found in the Whitehorse area are carnivores, and the prey of each frog differs depending on the species. Smaller frogs live on

Frogs - City of Whitehorse · Frogs All of the frogs found in the Whitehorse area are carnivores, and the prey of each frog differs depending on the species. Smaller frogs live on

Frog 2014. What is a Frog? There are around 3,900 species of tailless amphibians, or Anura, also called Salientia, including the frog and toad. Frogs.

Frog 2014. What is a Frog? There are around 3,900 species of tailless amphibians, or Anura, also called Salientia, including the frog and toad. Frogs.

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Engineering the Sound of Frogs - Microphone Data - Home · 2015-10-08 · Engineering the Sound of Frogs Recording frogs There are eleven different species of frog in Denmark and

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Frogs, Toads, and Frogs and Toads of Conservation Northern ...crocdoc.ifas.ufl.edu/publications/factsheets/BelizeAmphibianGuide.pdf · nocturnal frog can . Red-eyed Treefrog (Agalychnis

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