Frogs!

Frogs!  Frogs!  Frogs!

Books Shared or Recommended:

Burris           Five Green and Speckled Frogs

Faulkner      The Wide-Mouthed Frog
Kalan            Jump, Frog, Jump
London        Froggy Gets Dressed
Seeger         The Foolish Frog
Whippo       Little White Duck

We find frogs, a fly, and a log in the storytime apron this month!

One of the frogs lost a goggly eye, so we call him 'Winky'! 

Five Green and Speckled Frogs

Sat on a hollowed log,

Eating some most delicious bugs.  Yum!  Yum!

One jumped into a pool,  

Where it was nice and cool.

Then there were four green speckled frogs.

Glub, Glub!

Repeat until there are no more frogs.
The children can make their forearms into logs and five fingers of the other hand into frogs.
 

 Then I read the pop-up book, The Wide-Mouthed Frog.

 

 

Little Frog

A little frog in a pond am I, (Form frog with fist)

Hippity, hippity, hop.  (Jump that fist!)

And I can jump into the air so high, (up it goes)

Hippity, hippity, hop.  (Repeat jumping motion)

 

 

IN THE POND
Tune: "The Farmer In The Dell"
 
The frog lives in the pond,
His tongue is oh so long.
It reaches high to catch a fly
And then he sings this song.

Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit
Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit
High, ho just watch him go
His tongue is oh so long!

 

Little Froggy

See the little froggy swimming in the pool.
The water is great, It's nice and cool.
When he gets all cleaned up, out he'll hop.
Squeaky clean from bottom to top.
(point to your head and toes)
See the little froggy on the lily pad.
Trying to catch flies, she's getting sad.
When she catches one she'll gobble it up.
Back in the water she'll go KERPLOP!

 

 

Then it's time for a visit from the puppets!  I tell the story of The Princess and the Frog.

A princess loves to play catch with her golden ball, but it falls into a well.  She cries.  A frog says that he can help her but what will she give him?  The frog doesn't want her dresses, her jewels, or her ball.  He wants her to love him and be his friend always.  She promises.  Anything to get her ball back!  But when the frog brings it up, the princess runs away.  She didn't even say 'thank you'!

Next day, the frog comes to the castle.  The King, her father, makes the princess do as she promised.

You can find this complete story in the 398.2ish section of your library.

Then the frog turns into a handsome prince and they are so happy that they get married and live happily ever after! 

 

The End!