Today our read aloud was titled The Frog With the Big Mouth. The purpose of reading this story was so we could compare and contrast it to the story we read yesterday titled The Wide Mouthed Frog. We found that in both stories the main character was a frog. Each time he met a new character he asked the question, "What do you eat?" In yesterday's story the frog had a wide mouth, but in today's story he had a big mouth. Both stories had a bird in them, except they were different species. At the end of each story when the last animal is asked what he eats he responds, "A wide/big mouthed frog." In both stories the frog is able to escape unscathed.
At Miss Sue and Mrs. Palmer's center today the children cut out the letter "y" and used yarn and their creativity to decorate it. At my center the children were give a set of animal pictures. They sorted them into two categories: animals that live in the ocean and animals that live in ponds. At Mrs. Severson's center the children played on the ipad. A few of the apps they explored were: