3 Fun 'Frog on a Log?' Activities for Little Learners
Inspired by your students’ favorite rhyming read-aloud, these quick and easy activities are the perfect way to kick off learning.
If your students love the rhyming read-aloud Frog on a Log?, extend their learning beyond story time with engaging activities surrounding this series. From addition and subtraction to sight word practice, here are three fun ways to help your students meet their reading goals, while learning new skills from one of their favorite books!
For this memory matching game, start by printing, laminating, and cutting out pictures and illustrations of your students’ favorite characters from Frog on a Log?, along with their corresponding seat (i.e. a cat and a mat, a gopher and a sofa, etc.). Create enough sets for teams of one or two students to play with one another.
Next, distribute the cards, instructing students to spread them out face-down on the floor. The first team of players will turn over two cards, and if they rhyme, the team keeps the cards. If the two cards don’t rhyme, they’ll flip them back over.
Now, it’s the next team’s turn to try to find a match! The team with the most matches wins. For an extra challenge, replace some of the pictures with words.
Frog on a Log? is also a great way for students to familiarize themselves with the -og word family. For this crafty activity, have students cut out a log from brown construction paper and a frog from green construction paper.
After they glue the frog on the log, hand out pictures that depict words from the -og word family — think hog, fog, cog, bog, dog, jog, clog, smog, etc. — and then instruct students to glue the pictures onto their log next to the frog. For an extra challenge, ask students to write the words below each picture from the -og word family!
If you ask the cat from Frog on a Log? where flies sit, the cat will likely respond with fries, eyes, or thighs. But if the frog has a say, flies would be sitting on his dinner plate! For this math activity, print and cut out 10 flies along with a large frog with its tongue sticking out. (Alternatively, you can draw the frog and flies on your whiteboard.)
Now, invite students to begin thinking about basic addition, subtraction, and number recognition by placing or drawing five flies on the frog’s tongue and asking students how many there would be if you added four more flies, or took away three flies, etc. Keep going from there! This is a great way to warm your students up for learning arithmetic and becoming familiar with the numbers 1-10.
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