Frog Facts in Story Form on the iPad

 

 

This is my attempt at a how to draw for frogs.

My sample:

We drew and painted frogs and then wrote frog facts. Each student chose a fact for our class book. I took a picture of their art, recorded each students voice in the Chatterkid app and then uploaded them to the Book Creator app. They are two very to use apps and the students LOVED the video. They wanted to watch it a hundred times.

 

Here is our class book video:

 

 

 

 

 

These are the two easy to use apps I used to create this book.

ChatterPix Preview

Take a picture of the art. Add a line where the mouth is and then record the students voice. You can save it to your pictures and then add it to Book Creator. Its helps to use one iPad for this step.

Book Creator Preview

 

Monet Art Mural

We painted paper and then hung them up to look like Monet's Garden.

 

I saw this great mural idea on Cassie Stephens blog
 and had to try it.

I love anything frogs!
We read this book:

and then we made our own Paper Mache frogs

for our school art show.

The body is a balloon and the eyes and legs are cardboard.

 

The lily pads are painted paper and then watercolor on coffee filters in warm or cool colors.

 

These are my coworkers hall displays.

They are all so wonderful...I work with an amazing group of ladies!

 

 

 

 

 

Frog Cinquain Poems

After reading all about frogs, we came up with a list of adjectives, verbs and phrases and then the students chose which ones they wanted to use for their Cinquain poem. We used the same word for the title (frog) and the synonym at the end (amphibian)...which I thought was close enough. 

Here is a Cinquain Poem Graphic Organizer

 



 

 

 

 

We used this to help us draw our frogs and then we water colored them.



Frog Writing

We used a step up to wrting approach to help us write our informational piece on frogs. I stapled five strips of paper together. The first was green, the topic sentence. The next next three were yellow, the details (facts about frogs). The last paper is green, where they tried to wrap up and restate their topic sentence. We wrote the rough draft whole group and then edited them and wrote the final draft in small groups.

 

 

When we were done we turned it into a class book.

 

 

 

 

Frog and Toad All Year

This was our story for the week so we compared frogs and toads.

This is a great book to read for frog facts by Gail Gibbons

Frog and Toad All Year Book Study

Frog and Toad Game from First Grade A La Carte

 We also did this cute project from Ms. Ramey's Monkeys. We discovered a new frog and wrote why it was so amazing!
Click here to see her Amazing Frogs.
Frog Pattern

Jump, Frog, Jump!

We used a yarn to measure how far we could jump, cut it off and then used connecting cubes to measure the length. We broke them into tens and ones to count how far we jumped.

Pictures for Retelling

We made our own jumping frogs:

Origami Jumping Frog