Frogs Unit

Books:

One Frog Sang by Shirley Parenteau

Wanda and the Frogs by Barbara Azore

Froggy Plays T-Ball by Jonathan London

What a Party! By Sandy Asher

Froggy rides a bike by Jonathan London

Frog and Toad

Frog on a log

Cox and Cartwright

http://www.hummingbirded.com/download.htm

This week we will study the letter F, frogs, counting and writing 1-10, triangles, and the color purple.  We will also review the shapes and colors we’ve learned so far.  It also happens that this lesson coincides with the older boys’ lesson on frogs.  So for added fun we are going to put some of these activities into a lapbook.

Letter F Activities:

Things that start with the letter F

http://www.alphabet-soup.net/ttools/abc/fpic.html

Make a mini letter f book

http://www.first-school.ws/theme/alphabetp2.htm#f

F tracer paper

http://www.first-school.ws/t/alpha_tracers_zb1/f.htm

F is for frog coloring page

http://www.first-school.ws/t/alpha3_frog_b.htm

Lower case f tracer paper

http://www.under5s.co.uk/fff.pdf

Trace your child’s feet and let them cut them out.  Then they can write the letter F on the feet.

Let them finger paint pictures of things that start with the letter F.

Have them make finger print F’s on a piece of paper.

Look through the books from the library and find all the f’s.

Letter F maze

http://www.schoolexpress.com/fws/get_image.php?id=54783

Trace the letter F

http://www.schoolexpress.com/fws/get_image.php?id=54495

Trace the Letter F worksheet

http://www.schoolexpress.com/fws/get_image.php?id=54496

F is for frogcoloring page

Letter F tracer

Freddy F craft

http://www.dltk-teach.com/alphabuddies/mfreddyf.html

Letter F poem activity

http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/f-poem.htm

Beginning consonant sounds

http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/learning-letters/f.htm

Draw a line to the words that begin with the f sound

http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/f-begins1.htm

Words that begin with the f sound worksheet

http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/f-begins2.htm

Letter F craft

http://www.dltk-teach.com/alphabuddies/simple-f.htm

Counting Activities:

On index cards print the numbers 1-10.  Then let the kids stick frog stickers on the cards.  Placing the number of frogs to match the number written.

Frog counting book to make

http://www.thevirtualvine.com/images/frogs/vvhowmanyfrogsnos.pdf

Practice writing numbers 1-10

http://www.thevirtualvine.com/images/frogs/vvnumberpractice.pdf

Make 10 lily pads out of green foam or felt.  On each pad write a number from 1-10 on them.  Lay them on the floor.  Then spin a spinner and what ever number the spinner stops on the kid should hop to that number.  You could also have bean bags and have them toss the number of bean bags onto the lily pad.

Dot to Dot helicopter

http://www.first-school.ws/t/ap/helicopter_dot_to_dot10.htm

Practicewriting numbers 1-10

Count the teddy bears

http://www.schoolexpress.com/fws/get_image.php?id=53074

Cut out different shapes and colors of frogs and have the child match them.

Buy a bag of small plastic colored frogs.  Have them sort them.  They could use them for graphing, counting, addition, and subtraction.

Frog board game (print on card stock and laminate for sturdiness) Make up your own rules for the game.  You can decorate the board with lily pads, frogs, flies and anything you want.

Game board http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/basicgameboard.doc

Spinner http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/spinner.pdf

Game pieces (cut out the little green frogs on the last page)

http://www.thevirtualvine.com/images/frogs/vvhowmanyfrogsnos.pdf

Shape Activities:

Triangle worksheet

http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/shapes/shapes-triangles1.htm

Triangle worksheet

http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/shapes/shapes-triangles2.htm

Find the trianglesworksheet

Triangle worksheet

Find the triangles worksheet

Find the triangles worksheet

Triangle tracer worksheet

Trace the triangles

http://www.underfives.co.uk/triangl3.pdf

Trace the shapes

Tommy triangle craft

http://www.dltk-teach.com/shapes/mtriangle.htm

Shape buddy worksheet (scroll down until you see the triangle)

http://www.dltk-teach.com/shapes/worksheets.htm

Triangle fish paper craft

http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mfish.html

Shape owl paper craft

http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mshapesowl.htm

Triangle worksheet

http://www.schoolexpress.com/fws/get_image.php?id=56044

Triangle worksheet

http://www.schoolexpress.com/fws/get_image.php?id=56046

Find the triangle worksheet

http://www.schoolexpress.com/fws/get_image.php?id=56048

Practice drawing triangles

http://www.schoolexpress.com/fws/get_image.php?id=56052

Triangle worksheet

http://www.incwell.com/Zini/Zini-0023.html

Let them glue various materials to make triangles on a piece of construction paper. Examples – spaghetti noodles, yarn, strips of felt or foam, Popsicle sticks, strips of scrap fabric, color strips of construction paper

Have them see how many things they can come up with that are in the shape of a triangle.

Cut a large triangle out of a sheet of paper to make a triangle frame.  They can glue a frog coloring page on the other side showing through the hole.  Then let them decorate the frame either by gluing things on it or painting designs.

Shapes Review Activities:

Give the child cutouts of all the shapes we have learned so far of various sizes and colors.  Let them glue them onto a large piece of construction paper to create their own design.

Cut and paste balloon shape activity

http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag241.html

Count and trace the shapes

http://www.tlsbooks.com/countandtrace1.pdf

Use index cards with shapes drawn on them so they can play a game of memory.

Cut out pictures from magazines, that would fit on index cards, for each shape we’ve learned.  Glue the pictures to index cards.  Make one card with each shape on it, nothing fancy just the simple shape.  Then have the kids sort the picture cards into piles, stacking them by the shape cards.

Color Purple Activities:

Pansy purple color buddy

http://www.dltk-teach.com/colors/mpurple.htm

Groovy Grapes craft

http://www.dltk-teach.com/alphabuddies/mgroovygrapes.html

Purple coloring page

Things that are purple coloring sheet

http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/colors/colors-purple1.htm

This site has several purple activities

There are several purple activities on this page.  We are going to do shaving cream finger-paint, purple violets, and changing colors.

http://stepbystepcc.com/colors/purple.html

Color Review Activities:

Yellow, red, blue review coloring page

http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/colors/colors-three1.htm

Green, orange, purple, coloring page

http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/colors/colors-three2.htm

Colors caterpillar craft (use only the ones that we’ve learned)

Rainbowpaper craft

Color Concentration game (the last sheet is blank I plan on using that to make the cards)

http://www.bry-backmanor.org/colorconcentrationfun.html

Science and Art Activities:

Simple frog and toad facts

http://www.thevirtualvine.com/frogs.html

Frog life cycle craft

http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mfroglifecycle.htm

Frog life cycle sequencing cards (cut them apart, let them color them and place them in order)

Frog craft

Make a frog pouch

http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mfrogpouch.html

Make a frog bank

http://www.dltk-kids.com/viewers/banks.htm

Make a toad/frog house (talk about why you may want a toad or frog to live in your garden)

How about getting a frog hatchery to watch the frog’s life cycle

You could do a virtual frog dissection.

http://froguts.com/flash_content/index.html

Songs and Poems Notebook:

Letter F songs

http://www.preschooleducation.com/sf.shtml

Five green and speckled frogs

http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/songs/frogs.htm

Frog songs and poems

http://www.kidzone.ws/lw/frogs/activities-songs.htm

Frog songs

http://www.everythingpreschool.com/themes/frog/songs.htm

Purple songs and finger plays

http://stepbystepcc.com/colors/purple.html

Frog Fun:

Play leap frog

Sherbet the Frog

http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=40923

Make a fly catching frog

Listen to different frog songs

http://www.exploratorium.edu/frogs/tracker/index.html

Have a jumping contest to see who can jump the farthest.

Go visit a pond and see if you can find any frogs or tadpoles.

This are the activities I’m going to put in the lapbook for him to play with when ever he wants.  When I get it put together I’ll add pictures so you can see how I did it.

Frog life cycle sequencing cards (cut them apart, let them color them, laminate them) I’m planning on putting Velcro circle tabs on the lapbook and the back of the cards so they can put them in order.

Frog Songs – We’ll use either a lily pad shape or a frog shape to write them on.  I’ll staple them together and glue them to the lapbook.

Little Green Frog Song with actions

http://www.kidzone.ws/lw/frogs/activities-songs.htm

Frog and I song; Five Frisky Frogs

http://www.everythingpreschool.com/themes/frog/songs.htm

On index cards print the numbers 1-10.  Then let the kids stick frog stickers on the cards.  Placing the number of frogs to match the number written. I’ll make a pocket fold to hold the cards.

Frog board game (print on card stock and laminate for sturdiness) Make up your own rules for the game.  You can decorate the board with lily pads, frogs, flies and anything you want.

Game board http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/basicgameboard.doc

Spinner http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/spinner.pdf

Game pieces (cut out the little green frogs on the last page)

http://www.thevirtualvine.com/images/frogs/vvhowmanyfrogsnos.pdf

Practice writing numbers 1-10 (laminate so they can do it over and over)

http://www.thevirtualvine.com/images/frogs/vvnumberpractice.pdf

Cut out different shapes and colors of frogs and have the child match them.

Color Concentration game (the last sheet is blank I plan on using that to make the cards)

http://www.bry-backmanor.org/colorconcentrationfun.html

F tracer paper (laminate)

http://www.first-school.ws/t/alpha_tracers_zb1/f.htm

Use index cards with shapes drawn on them so they can play a game of memory.

Cut out pictures from magazines, that would fit on index cards, for each shape we’ve learned.  Glue the pictures to index cards.  Make one card with each shape on it, nothing fancy just the simple shape.  Then have the kids sort the picture cards into piles, stacking them by the shape cards.