Frogs Pre-K and Family

Flannel Friday:  "Fred the Frog"
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:

We read:
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.

 The lovely Miss Erica!  Oh I adore her!

Pre-K 2-23-12 Frogs and Alligators

Today we had a full-energy group...and lots of siblings.  We read about frogs and alligators and grooved to a new song.

Memory box: Fly (from Wide-Mouthed-Frog).  It was pretty funny and unexpected when the kids kept spotting the fly on every page LOL

What color are frogs?:  We had fun looking at a variety of colorful frogs

Books:

Jump! by Scott Fischer.  All the children got a colorful scarf to lift up high each time I read the word, "JUMP!" (which was fairly often).  From a bug and a frog to a croc and a shark, each animal JUMPS away from a larger animal.

Wide-Mouthed-Frog by Keith Faulkner.  The wide-mouth frog in this pop-up book eats flies and asks other animals about their favorite foods....until he meets an alligator who eats wide-mouthed-frogs.  The children then helped me retell the story with puppet props.

Flannel:
Little frog, little frog
are you in the color log?
(I let the kids call out colors and we looked under the logs until we found the two frogs)

Letter of the Day:
My duck from "All the Fish" laid two colorful eggs!  I instructed Lesley to show them the egg, but they couldn't tell me th letter.  Instead I had to guess the letter based on the words they came up with.
Music (sorry; neither CD is in our collection): 
"All the Fish":  We swam with fish, quacked with ducks, hopped with frogs, snapped like alligaors, flew like seagulls, and swam with children in the song "All the Fish"...and SPLASHed enthusiastically.

"Alligator Jump":  An alligator puppet taught us how to do the Alligator Jump with dancing scarves.  The chorus is:

Alligator jump

Alligator slide

All the alligators like to move from side to side

Alligator grunt

Alligator giggle

All the alligators like to turn around and wiggle