Froggies!!

Last week we learned all about frogs with our frog unit!  Again, I'm very pleased with how my literacy centers went!:) The kids are having so much fun and learning so much from them too!:)

One center that the kids were working on last week was this rhyming oddity center. The kiddos were given sets of five cards. They had to look at the pictures on each card, say the names and figure out the 3 that rhymed and place them on their work mat. When they found the three that rhymed, they flipped the cards over and copied the words on their response sheet.

Another literacy center that we did was working with blends. The students were given a flipbook with the blends: sn, cl, gl, fr. They had to go through their picture cards and sort the cards according to what blends they began with. They then wrote the words on their response sheets under the correct blend.

The last center that we did was a Making Words center. The students were given 3 words: lilypads, bullfrog and tadpoles. Their job was to use the letters in each word to find and build new words. Each time they found and built a new word, they would record it on their sheet.

We have been practicing making words! We made words out of the word "amphibian" as a class:

Here are all the words we found:

We wrote some froggy stories:

This fun froggy paper buddy can be found at: http://www.crayonboxlearning.com/frogs1.htm
We read lots of froggy fact books and made a "Frogs Are" chart.

After we made our chart, we did a step by step frog drawing!! These always turn out sooooo cute, because even though everyone follows the exact same directions, they all turn out so different!:) Under our froggy drawing, we wrote some froggy facts that we learned this week. These pages will be bound into a class book.

One last activity that we did was comparing the differences between frogs and toads and charting those differences. Apparently, I forgot to take a picture of the chart. OoOoPs!!! Sorry, in case you couldn't tell, I'm a very visual person:) I like pictures:)