Frog and Toad Together–Cookies

 

DRTA Lesson Plan:

Read the title.

Picture Walk through the book.

• What do you think is going to happen?

Read pages 30-32.

• What did Toad do?  (Baked cookies and brought them over to Frog’s house)
• What did Frog think?  (They should stop eating cookies or they would be sick)
• What do you think will happen next?

Read pages 33-34.

• What did Frog and Toad do?  (They kept eating cookies)
• What is “will power” that Frog mentions?

Read pages 35-37.

• Was our definition of “will power” correct?  (“Will power is trying hard not to do something that you really want to do.” page 35)
• Are Frog and Toad demonstrating will power?  (No.)
• What do they do with the cookies?  (Frog puts the cookies in a box and ties string around it.)
• What do you think will happen next?

Read pages 38-39.

• What did Frog do with the box of cookies?  (Took it off the shelf, cut the string and opened the box.)
• What do you think will happen next?

Read pages 40-41.

• What did Frog do with the box of cookies?  (Took them outside and fed them to the birds.)
• How did Toad feel?  (Sad.)
• What were Frog and Toad’s feelings about will power?  (Frog said they had lots and lots of will power and Toad said Frog could keep it all.)
• What did Toad do?  (Go home to bake a cake.)
• Were our predictions correct?

How can we have will power in our daily lives?

 

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