Liz Kitchen returns with more songs, rhymes and listening games to join in with and also the Aboriginal story of a very thirsty frog called ‘Tiddalick’.
Suggestions for classroom use
Introduction:
Listen all around: Australian didgeridoo sounds. Individual sounds: lake water, kookaburra, frogs croaking.
Song: Five little speckled frogs
FIVE 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 four speckled frogs. (Glug, glug!)
The song can be acted out by children, can be performed as a finger rhyme, or you can create five speckled frog stick puppets by cutting out pictures and sticking them on to wooden sticks.
Story time: Tiddalik and the Kookaburra
Once upon an Australian time… To hold attention on first hearing show the appropriate pictures for the animals. Ask children in groups of four to act out the story.
Small group discussion:
- What do the children know about Australia and Austalian wildlife?
- What do they think of Tiddilick’s behaviour?
- Was he a nice frog? Why/why not?
Song video: 'Five little speckled frogs'
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