One frog, one toad and many happy students

In the hallway outside Betsy O'Neill's classroom at Abram Lansing are wanted posters—for frogs, and toads. These posters are just one of the ways her class prepared to attend the play "A Year with Frog and Toad," at Proctor's Theatre this past October.

The play, based on the children's book The Adventures of Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel, is a Broadway production that recently traveled to the Capital Region. O'Neill's class received tickets from Verizon Wireless and attended for free.

"The kids loved it!" O'Neill said.

To prepare for seeing the play, her class read the book and wrote about it, and learned about the scientific differences between a frog and a toad.