Date: September 15, 1999

Grade Level(s): 3

Subject(s):

• Language Arts/Reading

Description: The children will listen to the teacher as he/she reads the story.
For a continuation, the children will create their own frog prince or princess.

Goals: Students learn to appreciate reading with the help of a related and fun art project.

Objectives:   The student will:

1. further develop their fine motor skills through cutting, pasting and coloring
2. see the connection between this activity and reading
3. follow a sequence of directions

• Story book  Scieszka, John (1994). The Frog Prince Continued . Puffin. ISBN: 014054285X
• Pieces of green, pink, and red construction paper
• One cotton ball/ per child
• Black Magic Marker per child
• Glue
• Scissors
• Pencils

This activity will be done after discussing and reading The Frog Prince Continued by John Scieszka. Conduct the demonstration by actually doing the project for them. Write the steps along with a picture of each step on the board for the children to follow. Pass out the colored paper, cotton ball and scissors to each child. Have the children sit with an assigned partner to share the glue and black marker. Each child will need to have a pencil (supply one if needed).

Steps-

1. Cut out a large green circle (head of the frog) and fold in half
2. Cut out a pink circle smaller than the green circle (mouth of the frog) and fold in half
3. Cut out four legs in the green paper
4. Glue two legs to each side (of one half ) of the green circle
5. Glue the pink circle inside of the green circle (cover the glued part of the legs)
6. Cut out a red strip and roll it around a pencil (curled tongue)
7. Glue the tongue to the inside of the pink circle (anywhere you want)
8. Cut the cotton ball in half (two eyes)
9. Glue to the top of the green half circle (frog's head)
10. Color cotton balls with black marker (pupils)

When the children are done they will need to return to glue, scissors and marker to the art supply area. Each child is expected to throw away any garbage that s/he has.

Assessment:

This assignment will be graded on the following:

• the child's ability to follow the directions and on neatness.
• observations of their participation during discussion about the project and the story.

(I will display it on the bulletin board with a large frog and words "Leap into Reading")
• the child's ability to write his/her own ending to a fairy tale to put beside their art project