Five Little Frogs

Age of Children: Toddler & Preschool

Subject(s): Math and Music

Anticipated Time To Complete The Lesson:  10-15 minutes

Materials Needed:
1.  Song: "Five Little Frogs"

Five Little Speckled Frogs or Five Little Frogs: MP3 Download (See above)

2.  Book: Ribbit!, Ribbit! (Puffy Board Books).  Grosset & Dunlap; ISBN: 0448418282.

3.  5 Green Speckled Frog Number Activity Booklet from Kiddyhouse.com

4.  Make a Frog Paper Plate Puppet located at
http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mpfrog.html

5.  Coloring pages for Five Speckled Frog (pdf) @ Underfive It has the frog(s), the word "frog", and the number of frog(s) for each verse.

Procedures
Activities:
1.  Anticipatory Set: Hold the frog paper plate puppet in your hand and have it jump and land on your lap. What kind of animal is this? What sound does a frog make? (Have the students make the sound with you.) How does a frog get around? (They hop).  Have the children hop like frogs. Start singing the song.

2. Sing the Song

-Sing the entire song for the children.

Ask the following questions:

(a.) How many frogs were in the song? (5.)
 Have the children count to five with you.

(b.) What happened to each frog? (They jumped into the pool [water].)

Sing the song to the children again.

-Show the children the frog booklet and have the students sing the song with you. Place the frog in the pond as the children sing, "One jumped into the pool..."  You can also use the book to teach another version of the song.

3.  Closure: What was the song about?  (five frogs). After that, have the children sing the song with you again so they understand the importance to use math and music together. Lastly, have five students volunteer (if you are homeschooling, have the child do it each time) to be the frogs that jumped into the pool, as you and the children (if they know how to sing) sing the song.