Five Green and Speckled Frogs

This week Hunter learned all about the life cycle of frogs. He was fascinated and soaked up quite a lot of information! For a fun froggy themed project we made an interactive display to use during the "Five Green and Speckled Frogs" song....

Hunter started out by painting his hand green and making five hand prints:

I rigged a drying rack and let the sun do the work while we did some other tasks:

Hunter is all the way up to "L,l" in his printing. Here he is saying each letter and getting ready to place his completed "L" strip in the pocket chart. As he was doing this he said "hey mom, take my picture":

Hunter also spent some time reviewing the printing of the numbers 1-5 (take a close look at the printing!!):

After the hand prints had dried, I cut them out (I also cut the thumbs off, leaving four froggy legs) and Hunter drew smiles and speckles on each one: (oh, and Hunter chose to give this frog glasses as well :o)





Next came google eyes and popsicle sticks glued to the back:

After the glue had dried, it was finally time to place the five speckled frogs at home on their speckled log:





Ready to sing!

"Five green and speckled frogs, sat on a speckled log,

eating the most delicious bugs; YUM! YUM!
One jumped into the pool, where it was nice and cool,

now there are four green speckled frogs" etc...