Cat Sandion has more songs, rhymes and listening games to join in with and today the story is ‘The Frog Prince.’
Suggestions for classroom use
Listening game:
The individual sounds to identify are: ball bouncing; ball splashing in water; frog jumping and swimming in the water; 'ribbet' sounds; croaking.
Rhyme: 'Froggie Froggie'
Froggie, froggie.
Hoppity-hop!
When you get to the sea
You do not stop. Plop!
Cat emphasises rhyming words Hop! / Stop! / Plop!
Song time: 'Five Little Speckled Frogs'
5 Little Speckled Frogs,
Sat on a speckled log,
Eating some most delicious bugs, Yum, Yum!
One jumped into the pool,
Where it was nice and cool,
Then there were 4 green speckled frogs.
Glub, glub!
4 Little Speckled Frogs…
3 Little Speckled Frogs…
2 Little Speckled Frogs…
1 Little Speckled Frog,
Sat on a speckled log,
Eating some most delicious bugs, Yum, Yum!
He jumped into the pool,
Where it was nice and cool,
Then there were no green speckled frogs.
Glub, glub!
This song can be acted out by the children or can be performed as a finger rhyme.
Story time: 'The Frog Prince'
Once upon a watery time… If possible have a frog, ball, bowl of water (for splashy sound effects) or show pictures of the pond, the castle, a crown, use soft toys or puppets to represent the characters and to aid later retelling and sequencing activities.
Follow-up ideas:
- Make a small world pond scene to help retell the story.
- Provide a selection of information books about tadpoles and frogs.
- Make some frog masks to help retell or act out the story and rhymes.
- Provide pictures of the story sequence for children to order, they could be pegged on to a ‘story string’ in the order they appear in the story.
- Small group discussion: discuss keeping our promises. What do the children think about the princess’s behaviour towards the frog? - What do the children think about the frog’s behaviour? Was he a good frog? Why? Ask open questions to encourage the children to give more information: What? Why? Where? Who?
- Go for a walk and collect leaves, grasses, moss and make a ‘green’ collection.
- Collect shells, sticks, pebble and feathers and encourage the children to make them into patterns, these can be rearranged again and again. Tear, roll, twist and scrunch papers and glue them to a piece of paper or card to make a textured surface. Use these resources to create a small world area add toy frogs, mini-beasts.
- Enhance your water play provision with toy frogs, wooden logs, blocks, play-people, table tennis balls and other resources to support retelling the story, songs and rhymes.
See the Teachers' Notes (pdf) below for more suggestions.
Song video: 'Five little speckled frogs'
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