Frog Legs
Written by: George Shannon
Illustrated by: Amit Trynan
Published by Greenwillow Books in NY in 2000
ISBN: 0-688-17047-1
Genres: Picture Book, Poetry, Concept Book
Reading Level: Grade 1
Activity Level: Kindergarten
Summary: This is a book written in action verse. It is a collection of poetry that is fun and also teaches concepts such as the alphabet and numbers. Each page or two-page spread has a different poem that could be incorporated into a classroom setting. There is no specific theme, but the poems in this book range in topic from splashing through puddles, to Cancan dancing, to hopscotch, Trick or Treating, three-legged racing, and balancing. The poems use these things as topics for the verse and are all about getting children to be active while reading or hearing something read, by dancing and playing while reading or listening to these poems. All of the illustrations are of adorable frogs dancing and playing, so children would love this book!
Response: I really like how the poems in this work can teach children. Certainly, not all of them provide introductions to concepts, but those which do are remarkable! I love that when you read this book you can feel the meter, which is very important in working with children because they will be able to feel it too and that will make the poems very exciting to them as well.
The illustrations of frogs in this book are so cute! The illustrator used milar paper and acrylic paints to create very animated creatures. Their hands and feet are flying everywhere in the images. The illustrations are mostly single-page spreads, except in the case of a couple of the longer poems, which needed, and received, more illustration. The illustrator also alternates between white and colored backgrounds to keep reader interest and uses a multitude of muted colors to create this work.
Teaching Connections: This book would be great for a kindergarten classroom! A teacher could read a poem from this book and have materials present for students to act out the parts. The "Flair Dance," for example, is perfectly written to sound great as a narrator reads it while children do the dance, which is somewhat like what occurs in square dancing.
With the poem "May Pole," in which children wrap colorful ribbon around a pole, a teacher could have a straw for each student along with some tape and colored ribbon and they could each make their own may pole as the teacher reads the poem.
"Jumpabet" could be performed outside with children in groups with a jump rope. It would help them learn their alphabet and be physically active at the same time!
"Just Like Me" would allow students to move around and follow the leaders, just as the poem requests, while also doing the movements of birds, and moths, etc, that are in the poem.
What Students Learn: From this book and the activities the students learn about poetry, their numbers, their alphabet, and are physically active in the jump rope and follow the leader portions of the activities.
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Written by: George Shannon
Illustrated by: Amit Trynan
Published by Greenwillow Books in NY in 2000
ISBN: 0-688-17047-1
Genres: Picture Book, Poetry, Concept Book
Reading Level: Grade 1
Activity Level: Kindergarten
Summary: This is a book written in action verse. It is a collection of poetry that is fun and also teaches concepts such as the alphabet and numbers. Each page or two-page spread has a different poem that could be incorporated into a classroom setting. There is no specific theme, but the poems in this book range in topic from splashing through puddles, to Cancan dancing, to hopscotch, Trick or Treating, three-legged racing, and balancing. The poems use these things as topics for the verse and are all about getting children to be active while reading or hearing something read, by dancing and playing while reading or listening to these poems. All of the illustrations are of adorable frogs dancing and playing, so children would love this book!
Response: I really like how the poems in this work can teach children. Certainly, not all of them provide introductions to concepts, but those which do are remarkable! I love that when you read this book you can feel the meter, which is very important in working with children because they will be able to feel it too and that will make the poems very exciting to them as well.
The illustrations of frogs in this book are so cute! The illustrator used milar paper and acrylic paints to create very animated creatures. Their hands and feet are flying everywhere in the images. The illustrations are mostly single-page spreads, except in the case of a couple of the longer poems, which needed, and received, more illustration. The illustrator also alternates between white and colored backgrounds to keep reader interest and uses a multitude of muted colors to create this work.
Teaching Connections: This book would be great for a kindergarten classroom! A teacher could read a poem from this book and have materials present for students to act out the parts. The "Flair Dance," for example, is perfectly written to sound great as a narrator reads it while children do the dance, which is somewhat like what occurs in square dancing.
With the poem "May Pole," in which children wrap colorful ribbon around a pole, a teacher could have a straw for each student along with some tape and colored ribbon and they could each make their own may pole as the teacher reads the poem.
"Jumpabet" could be performed outside with children in groups with a jump rope. It would help them learn their alphabet and be physically active at the same time!
"Just Like Me" would allow students to move around and follow the leaders, just as the poem requests, while also doing the movements of birds, and moths, etc, that are in the poem.
What Students Learn: From this book and the activities the students learn about poetry, their numbers, their alphabet, and are physically active in the jump rope and follow the leader portions of the activities.
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