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Literacy Bags for a Frog Unit Study

Starting about the second week of Kindergarten my daughter was given the opportunity to take home what her teacher called Story Bags or Take Home Literacy Bags. She loved them so much that I started making Literacy Bags for my classroom. They are theme-related bags with books, activities, and journals to take home and share with family members. I soon realized how much better these literacy bags were compared to traditional homework.

In this lens I will describe one of the first literacy bags that I created when doing a Frog Unit Study with my Kindergarten and First Grade Class. We began our unit study by brainstorming everything we knew about frogs. We then read a couple of books about frogs before going out to the Frog Pond to check the accuracy of our sources. When it was time to choose a literacy bag to take home for the week, the children could hardly wait to choose their homework.

Literacy Bags make homework so much fun that your children will be begging to take their homework home.

Grandfather Frog Literacy Bag

Frog Themed Literacy Bag

Frog Literacy Bag


Frog Literacy Bag
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Each bag could include:
1. The Adventures of Grandfather Frog
by Thornton Burgess (fiction)
2. Frogs by Gail Gibbons (Non-fiction)
3. Directions for how to play Leap Frog (PE and cooperation)
4. Stuffed Plush Bullfrog
5. Tadpole
Transformation: A cut and paste project using paper fasteners to turn a tadpole into a frog.(Science)
6. Sometimes we may be able to send the children home with a live tadpole for the night. (Science)
7. Go Fish cards that are shaped like frogs with frog theme related words on them to match with the pictures with word cards. (Oral Language)
The Adventures of Grandfather Frog

The Adventures of Grandfather Frog

by: Thornton W. Burgess

Amazon Price: $20.44 (as of 02/17/2012)Buy Now

Jerry Muskrat looked over the Smiling Pool. Almost at once he saw Grandfather Frog fast asleep on his big green lily-pad. Jerry slipped down into the water and swam over to the big green lily-pad of Grandfather Frog. Then he hit the water a smart blow with his tail. Grandfather Frog's big goggly eyes flew open, and he was just about to make a frightened plunge into the Smiling Pool when he saw Jerry.

Grandfather Literacy Bag

Items for the Grandfather Frog Literacy Bag

Collect frog themed books, games and activities. Don't forget to ask parents to contribute items that they find as well. Card Games such as Go Fish can be created by writing words on frog shaped notepaper and laminated. I like to write frog related vocabulary words on the cards.

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NOTEPADS FROG

NOTEPADS FROG

You don't need to be a kid to enjoy these fun, bri more...2 points

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Skip Hop Zoo Lunchies, Frog

Skip Hop Zoo Lunchies, Frog

With friendly faces and matching zipper pulls, ZOO more...1 point

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Learning Resources Products - Learning Resources - Let's Tackle Math! Patterning and Sequencing, For Grades Pre-K and Up - Sold As 1 Set - 252-piece counter set with 108 bugs, 72 worms and 72 frogs. - 25-page, spiral bound, stand-up activity book. - Sorti

Learning Resources Products - Learning Resources - Let's Tackle Math! Patterning and Sequencing, For Grades Pre-K and Up - Sold As 1 Set - 252-piece counter set with 108 bugs, 72 worms and 72 frogs. - 25-page, spiral bound, stand-up activity book. - Sorti

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The Wide-Mouthed Frog: A Pop-Up Book by Keith Faulkner, Jonathan Lambert

The Wide-Mouthed Frog: A Pop-Up Book by Keith Faulkner, Jonathan Lambert

From the Okefenokee Swamp comes a frog with a wide more...1 point

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Webkinz Bullfrog

Webkinz Bullfrog

Discover a virtual world with Webkinz pets. Webkinz more...1 point

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Cooperative Introduction to Math Concepts, Berries Bugs and Bullfrogs

Cooperative Introduction to Math Concepts, Berries Bugs and Bullfrogs

Play four different cooperative tile games. Players more...1 point

Literacy Bag Frog Journals

Writing about Frogs

As the weekend ends, the children reflect on what they have done and learned from their Frog Themed Literacy Bag. They might write about the adventures they had with Grandfather Frog, how much fun it was to make the tadpole to frog paper project or how much they enjoyed reading frog stories with Mom or Dad. The children write about their experiences in the enclosed journal which will be put in the class library after each of the children has borrowed it.
J23 - Frog & Toad Blank Journal

J23 - Frog & Toad Blank Journal

by: Arnold Lobel

Amazon Price: $6.00 (as of 02/17/2012)Buy Now

6" x 8" perfect bound blank Frog and Toad journal with all the trimmings!
Full-colored end-papers, rounded corners, colored edging, and a lay-flat style that allows for easy use.(Orange cover with bright blue edging and spine). With 200 lined pages, there's plenty of space for creativity. Go on -- be inspired!

Games and Activities for the Frog Bag

Frog Literacy Bag Games and Activities

Take Home Literacy Bags make homework so much fun that children will beg for homework. Put in a frog story and a frog reference book, a couple of frog related activity sheets and a frog game. Top it off with a plush frog and you have a Frog Literacy Bag chalk full of fun and learning.
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Froggy Worksheets

Worksheets with a Frog Theme

Frog Story

Photo Credit: Reading Frog
on Flickr, Creative Commons.

I add worksheets to the Frog Literacy Bag not as assigned homework that must be turned in and graded, but as fun, optional activities. I have found that children learn much more when they choose to do an activity than when forced to. Some children enjoy these activity worksheets and delight in filling them out. Other children choose to learn using other methods. By coming together to share what we are learning each of the children learns and teaches us something new.
Finish the alphabet - Missing lowercase letters (frog)-Worksheet
Frogs lay many, many eggs. This frog is going to lay an egg for each letter of the alphabet. Help name the rest of the frog's eggs in ABC order.

For older children, have them find actual names for each of the frog eggs such as Alfred, Betsey, Cameron etc... To push it to the next level, could they find a variety of frog for each letter of the alphabet?
Frog Observation Worksheet
The Frog Observation Worksheet could be used when observing frogs in the wild. If a child comes into class telling about finding frogs in a pond near their home, a worksheet like this can help them remember to go back and check on answers to questions the other students might have had about the frogs in that pond.
F is for Frog
Color the frog and practice printing the letter f.
Frog Activities
Frog Printable Worksheets and other "Off line" Activities. Some of these activities would be a delightful addition to in the Frog Literacy Bag.

Frog and Toad Literacy Bag

FrogToad

This small Frog Lunch Bag can hold a copy of Frog and Toad a pair of Frog
and Toad dolls and a frog journal.

The children loved reading with the Frog and Toad dolls, sharing the stories with their parents and writing in the journals about the adventures that Frog and Toad had while visiting their homes. I set aside a bit of time each day when the children could share what they had written in the journals. This way the children were introduced to the available bags and began to look forward to their chance to take the Frog and Toad Bag home.
Stephen Joseph SJ4252A Snack Sac Soft-Sided Lunch Bag for Kids, Frog

Stephen Joseph SJ4252A Snack Sac Soft-Sided Lunch Bag for Kids, Frog

Amazon Price: $18.00 (as of 02/17/2012)Buy Now

Its frog design comes complete with four floppy green feet, a yellow belly, and a friendly face with mischievous eyes. The bag measures approximately 7 by 11 inches and includes an 11-inch strap.

Frog Literacy Bag Activities

Frog Unit Study Literacy Bag Activities

Activities for including in your Frog Unit Study Literacy Bag. The following activities work on skills needed to develop literacy in children. Pop a few frog themed activities into a literacy bag and your children will go home with homework so much fun that they will be begging for more.
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Frog Themed Literacy Bags

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Little Priorities: Frog and Toad Literacy Take Home Bag

Besides books, stuffed frog and a journal this Fro more...0 points

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Spring Frog Literacy Bag by HandsOnLearningFun on Etsy

FROG THEMED UNIT Life Cycle Sequence Puzzle Counti more...0 points

Literacy Bags

Story Bags or Literacy Bags

Homework

Photo Credit: Reading about Frogs
on Flickr, Creative Commons.



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Literacy Bag with a Frog Theme

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Jack Frog Go-Go Backpack



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