Five Little Speckled Frogs
Children will love to sing and dance
along with this fun Animal song!
Lyrics
Five little speckled frogs sitting upon a log
eating a most delicious bug, yum, yum!
One jumped into the pool, where it was nice and cool.
Then there were four green speckled frogs.
Four little speckled frogs sitting upon a log eating a most delicious bug, yum, yum!
One jumped into the pool, where it was nice and cool.
Then there were three green speckled frog.
Three little speckled frogs sitting upon a log eating a most delicious bug, yum, yum!
One jumped into the pool, where it was nice and cool.
Then there were two green speckled frog.
Two little speckled frogs sitting upon a log eating a most delicious bug, yum, yum!
One jumped into the pool, where it was nice and cool.
Then there were one green speckled frog.
One little speckled frog sitting upon a log eating a most delicious bug, yum, yum!
He jumped into the pool, where it was nice and cool.
Then there were no green speckled frogs
Activities
Music
- Singing and performing helps to build children's confidence and self-esteem, it's also FUN!
- Perform the song to an audience demonstrating an understanding of the words and actions appropriate to the song. Choose five children to perform the song.
- View the video song of "Five Little Speckled Frogs." Compare the performances.
Dance
- Build up a movement vocabulary for a frog e.g. bouncy, hopping, snapping, swimming etc.
- Within their own 'space bubble' children can move around like a frog. Teacher can play a sound source e.g. tap the desk with a ruler, clap hands or shake a maracas. When the teacher stops the sound source the children freeze, when the teacher plays the sound source again the children choose another frog movement.
Science
- What is the habitat of a frog?
Literacy
- Sing and read along to the YouTube song to achieve multi-sensory learning "Do it, see it and hear it!"
Print out the song PDF
- Read the song lyrics - ask children a variety of questions.
- Re-read the song lyrics and ask children to join in.
- Recognise and use a variety of punctuation when reading. " " ! ? . ,
- Look at print and conventions (bold, italics).
- Talk about interesting/challenging words and discuss what they mean.
- Word study - phonic knowledge, compound words, rhyming word, contractions etc.
