Engage
This is a story about a frog who doesn’t want to be a frog. Who does the frog want to be? If you were an animal, which one would you like to be?
I Don’t Want to be a Frog by Dev Petty and Mike Boldt
Explore
Did you know that frogs breathe from their skin? The slimy layer that you see helps them keep the water on their skin so they can breathe. Isn’t that interesting?
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Mystery Bag, Mystery Bag, what’s inside the Mystery Bag?
Can you guess what the mystery word is? See if you can sound it out and write the letters on a piece of paper.
This is something that is often green or brown, it lives by a pond or lake, and it can jump really high.
(answer: frog)
This is something that you use for storing things in. It is often a square shape and is the colour brown.
(answer: box)
This is an animal that is orange and brown. It lives in the forest and it rhymes with the last word.
(answer: fox)
This is a number that comes after number 5 and before number 7.
(answer: six)
Extend
You can print these out, or just write the letter or words on a piece of paper.
A good friend of mine, Kim Thomas is a librarian. She read the story, I Don’t Want to be a Frog by Dev Petty and Mike Boldt. Which version of the story do you like?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DQV0T2fxRqYcSSJHppe4ajv3hEDnM1ff/view
Bonus
Join Coach Kieran and his Jungle Adventure with Happy Feet Soccer.
