Listen to song here
At the edge of the pond
I caught a little tadpole (wiggle hands)
I named him Fred
and I put him in a fish bowl (make fish bowl with arms)
I watched him wiggle and swim around (wiggle hands)
And then one day guess what I found?
Fred's tail was getting smaller (put hands close together)
And Fred's head was getting larger (make large head over your head with your arms)
Fred had ONE leg (musical "boing") growing strong (extend one arm)
We knew he'd be a frog before too long
The song keeps going that he had
TWO legs... (extend 2 arms)
THREE legs... (extend 2 arms and a leg)
FOUR legs ... (hop like a frog)
Finally he's a frog and hops away and we do too.
The tadpole is about 14 inches and the bowl about 2 ft wide. I put the tadpoles in the bowl one at a time as directed by the song - I just photographed them together.
Fred becomes a frog:
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Letter of the Day: Ff (storytime was July 3rd)
Flannel (Day before Fourth of July)
"Five Firecrackers"
See post here: http://storytimewithmisstara.blogspot.com/2014/07/firecrackers-2014s-version.html
Books:
The Wide-Mouthed Frog by Keith Faulker - a great pop-up book!
Down by the Cool of the Pool by Tony Mitton
Ah Ha! by Jeff Mack - a tricky one to read, but funny if you can pull it off
Frogs by Nic Bishop - I showed them various colored frogs, bullfrogs, and toads
Olive the Fox (fox starts with F too!) feeling patriotic
Having a small group (25 kids) in storytime the day before July 4th worked nicely because they all got a turn playing the frog on the way out the door.
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