Five Speckled Frogs

You Will Need:

Paper, pens, craft materials
If you are not sure of the tune, you can use this link from the Literacy Trust http://www.wordsforlife.org.uk/song

The Activity:

Sing the song with your little one
Bring the song to life by creating your own pond scene using craft materials, paper, pens, paper plates, fabric or boxes. You could use outdoor resources such as mud, stones, twigs and leaves.
On rainy days your little one could use their physical skills to be the frog jumping in the pond, by using puddles for the pond.
You can do some exercises with your child, jumping in and out of a make believe pond 5 times with a rest and freeze of 5 counts then repeat the 5 jumps, keeping the number 5 in mind.
You can explore the environments that different animals and reptile’s live.

Five Speckled Frogs

Five little speckled frogs, sat on a speckled log

Eating the most delicious bugs “yum yum!”

One jumped into the pool, where they were nice and cool,

Then there were four green speckled frogs, “glub glub!”

Four little speckled frogs, sat on a speckled log

Eating the most delicious bugs “yum yum!”

One jumped into the pool, where they were nice and cool,

Then there were three green speckled frogs, “glub glub!”

Three little speckled frogs, sat on a speckled log…

Two little speckled frogs, sat on a speckled log…

One little speckled frog, sat on a speckled log…

…Then there were no green speckled frogs, “glub glub!”

You may want to emphasise on these associated words to enhance your child language development:

Jumped
Speckled
Sat
Log
Most
Pool
Pond
Cool
Frog
Reptile
Webbed
Green

How this supports your child's learning:

An experience and appreciation of rhythm and rhyme is essential for children’s success in mastering the fundamental skills required for speaking, reading and writing. Songs and rhymes are also a great way to introduce mathematical language and to support children’s emotional development.