1. Frog and Toad Together Big Question: What changes happen in a garden?
Author:
Arnold Lobel
Genre:
Animal Fantasy

2. Small Group
Timer

3. Big Question What changes happen in a garden?
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5

4. Frog and Toad Together Day 1

5. Daily Fix-it Dan helpped me plant my seeds
They will be litle plants son.
Unit 3 Frog and Toad - Day 1

6. Daily Fix-it Dan helpped me plant my seeds
Dan helped me plant my seeds.
They will be litle plants son.
They will be little plants soon.
Unit 3 Frog and Toad - Day 1

7. Morning Warm-up In winter, flowers go away.
In spring, flowers start to grow in gardens.
Do we have a garden near our school?
What changes happen in a garden?
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 1

8. Oral Vocabulary Sprout! It’s a Garden
Here is what a good gardener knows-
Seeds need sunshine golden.
Rain falls down and each seed grows.
Sprout! It’s a garden.
It takes time to see the plants.
The blooms will not be sudden.
Just let nature have a chance.
Unit 3 Frog and Toad - Day 1

9. Amazing Words gardener A gardener is someone who grows plants. nature
Nature is everything in the world that is not made by people.
sprout
Sprout means “to begin to grow.”

10. Inflected Endings melted melting pet petted petting batting ripped
hopping
stepped
shutting
tagged
digging
begging
slipped
chopped
swimming
stopping
Unit 3 Frog and Toad - Day 1

11. planned letting Ending -ed planned rested tripped thanked
Ending -ing letting jumping landing hugging
Unit 3 Frog and Toad - Day 1

12. Word Reading – ed, -ing tapping sipped jogging running pinned flipped
ringing
clapping
hummed
asked
fixes
getting
yelled
wishes
zipped
Unit 3 Frog and Toad - Day 1

14. Journal – List plants you would grow in your garden. AR test Centers
Reading WB page 33
Spelling WB page 61
Journal – List plants you would grow in your garden.
AR test
Centers
Unit 3 Frog and Toad - Day 1

17. Daily Journal Writing Day 1
List plants you would grow in your garden.

18. Frog and Toad Together Day 2

19. Daily Fix-it 3. I plantted seeds last spring
4. next year I will do it agan.
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 2

20. Daily Fix-it 3. I plantted seeds last spring
I planted seeds last spring.
4. next year I will do it agan.
Next year I will do it again.
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 2

21. Morning Warm-up We will read about the four seasons.
Many things change with each season.
Why do you think the seasons change?
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 2

22. Amazing Words dim Dim means “not bright.” shade
Shade is a place that is darker than the area around it because light has been blocked from the sun.

23. r-controlled ar
cat
had
hard hard
far
card
barn
smart
march

24. Word Work
car
mark
yarn
harp
star
chart
large
art

25. Word Reading r-Controlled ar
jar
sort
cat
yard
more
cart
dark
scarf
ham
hard
porch
harm
sharp
start
bark
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 2

29. 1. Reading WB pages 34, 35, 36 2. Spelling WB page 62
3. Journal – Write about a time when you or someone you know planted a seed.
4. AR test
5. Centers
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 2

30. Daily Journal Writing Day 2
Write about planting a seed.

31. Frog and Toad Together Day 3

32. Daily Fix-it I put thre seeds in one pot? then I gave them watter.
Unit 3 Frog and Toad - Day 3

33. Daily Fix-it I put thre seeds in one pot?
I put three seeds in one pot.
then I gave them watter.
Then I gave them water.
Unit 3 Frog and Toad - Day 3

34. Morning Warm-up Today we will read about Toad.
Toad plants seeds in a garden.
He reads and sings and shouts at his seeds.
What does a real garden need to grow?
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 3

35. Amazing Words blossom –
A blossom is the flower of a plant. When a plant blossoms it has flowers.
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 3

36. Inflected endings r-controlled ar
clapping
thanked
smart
flipping
large
Unit 3 Frog and Toad - Day 3

37. Grandpa’s Garden
Grandpa was digging
Far back in the yard,
Planting a garden,
And working real hard.
He stopped when it got dark
And plopped down to wait
For someone to tell him
The garden looked great.
We all started clapping.
We patted his arm.
Now Grandpa is planning
To start a small farm.

38. barked digging stepped parking started swimming hummed marching
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 3

39. Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 3

40. Sometimes people try different things to keep the plants in their garden growing. Toad is a character in the story we are about to read. His garden is not growing the way he thinks it should. We’ll find out what advice Frog gives Toad and if anything ever grows in the garden.

41. Vocabulary
rain
ground
head
shouted
shouting

42. High-Frequency Words work very again grow few day were how read afraid
soon
home
together
Unit 3 Frog and Toad - Day 3

44. 3. Journal – Write about your favorite flower, plant, or tree.
1. Reading WB page 37
2. Spelling WB page 63
3. Journal – Write about your favorite flower, plant, or tree.
4. AR test
5. Centers
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 3

45. Toad shouts at his seeds. Toad shouted at his seeds.
Toad is shouting at his seeds.
-s ed ing
start
plant
walk
look
play
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 3

46. Toad did stuff to his seeds.
First get some seeds, tiny and brown.
Then put them deep into the ground.
The rain comes, and the sun shines down.
Up go the flowers, large and round.
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 3

47. Daily Journal Writing Day 3
Write about your favorite flower, plant, or tree.

48. Frog and Toad Together Day 4

49. Daily Fix-it They ned sunn. I am hapy when they gro.
Unit 3 Frog and Toad - Day 4

50. Daily Fix-it They ned sunn. They need sun. I am hapy when they gro.
I am happy when they grow.
Unit 3 Frog and Toad - Day 4

51. Morning Warm-up Toad tried to make his seeds sprout.
Today we will read about what flowers really need to grow.
What would you plant in a garden?
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 4

52. If something is humongous, it is very, very big.
Amazing Words
humongous –
If something is humongous, it is very, very big.
destroy –
When you destroy something, you ruin it.
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 4

53. fixes foxes corn chore Words with or, ore Words without or, ore
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 4

54. Word Reading shore school horns old fixes sorts our porches Ford their
people
house
store
drums
friends
Unit 3 Frog and Toad - Day 4
school
old
sorts
porches
their
Mort
very
other
some
away

55. Words in Context Ford fixes and sorts the horns and drums.
Their very old house has two porches.
Our friends shopped at the school store.
Mort went away to the shore with some other people.
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 4

58. 1. Reading WB pages 38, 39 2. Spelling WB page 64
3. Journal – Write to tell what Toad’s garden looks like after the plants grow tall.
4. AR test
5. Centers
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 4

59. Daily Journal Writing Day 4
Write to tell what Toad’s garden looks like after the plants grow tall.

60. Frog and Toad Together Day 5

61. Daily Fix-it he planted the seds. Jan and I waters the garden
Unit 3 Frog and Toad - Day 5

62. Daily Fix-it he planted the seds. He planted the seeds.
Jan and I waters the garden
Jan and I water the garden.
Unit 3 Frog and Toad - Day 5

63. Morning Warm-up
We have learned how blossoms sprout from seeds. We know that dim light can destroy some plants. What can a gardener do to grow big flowers?
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 5

64. Clark tripped on a sharp rock in the yard.
Running around a large park is fun.
We stopped to look at the stars in the dark sky.
The sharks are swimming in deep water.
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 5

65. soon afraid read again few how
_________ lots of books about Frog and Toad.
Read many, not a _________.
Read them over and over __________.
Each time will seem brand new!
Don’t be __________ to plant a seed.
__________ will it grow? You know.
Rain, sun, and time, and __________ a plant
Will start to grow and grow!
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 5

68. 2. Journal – Write about how to start a garden.
1. Handwriting sheet
2. Journal – Write about how to start a garden.
3. AR test
4. Centers
Unit 3 Frog and Toad – Day 5

69. Daily Journal Writing Day 5
Write about how to start a garden.