Counting Frogs
From counting to 10 to helping in annual Frog Monitoring programs, this lens explores counting with a frog theme.
Frog Count Table of Contents
- Using Frog Art to Learn to Count
- Five Little Tadpoles
- Ten Little Froggies
- Leapfrog Counting
- Twenty Froggies by George Cooper
- Frog and Logs for Counting
- Frogs, Lily pads and Counting
- Frog Sorting Set
- Skip Counting Frogs
- Skip Counting with Frogs
- Hop and Count Along the Number Line
- Frog Counters or Playing Pieces
- Frog Spawn Place Value
- Frog Math: Predict, Ponder, Play
- Look who's Twittering about Counting Frogs
- Evelyn's Hands-on Learning Blog
- More Frog Lenses
- How do you count frogs?
- About the Author of this Frog Counting Lens:
Using Frog Art to Learn to Count
Two Frogs on Motorcycle with Umbrella and Flowers
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How many frogs are in the picture?
How many other things can you count in this picture?
Very young children are learning one to one correspondence. At first it can be very difficult for them not to count things more that once, skip things or make a connection between the number words they are saying and the items being counted.
Sit your child in your lap and start to play this game:
1. Put a frog counter on a frog in the picture and say one frog.
2. Put a frog counter on the other frog and say two frogs.
3. Take off each of the frogs as you count to two again.
4. Now ask your child to try playing the game.
Five Little Tadpoles
Tadpole Math
Photo Credit: Five Little Tadpoles
from Hummingbird Educational Resources.
Five Little Tadpoles
Traditional rhyme
Five little tadpoles swimming near the shore.
The first one said, "Let's swim some more."
The second one said, "Let's rest awhile."
The third one said, "Swimming makes me smile."
The fourth one said, "My legs are growing long."
The fifth one said, "I'm getting very strong."
Five little tadpoles will soon be frogs.
They'll jump from the water and sit on logs.
- Five Little Tadpoles
- Activities linking literature to mathematics on the Lit2Go site. Five Little Tadpoles
- Blackline Master of Frog Math
- Frog and Tadpole math
- 5 Tadpoles
- Hummingbird Educational Resources
5 Tadpoles
1. Start with a grocery shopping bag.
2. Draw underwater plants on blue paper and glued it on the bottom flap side of the bag.
3. Use an Exacto knife to cut the picture where the bottom flap/fold is. - Hummingbird Educational Resources. Lesson Plans for Preschool-Kindergarten Educators. Free Printables. Interactive Books.
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Ten Little Froggies
A Frog Counting Song
One Little, Two Little, Three little Froggies.
Photo Credit: Three frogs on Flickr, Creative Commons.
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Four little, five little, six little froggies,
Photo Credit: Four Frogson Flickr, Creative Commons.
Photo Credit: Five Frogs in the Public Domain
Photo Credit: Six Frogs on Flickr, Creative Commons.
Seven little, eight little, nine little froggies,
Photo Credit: Nine Frogs
on Flickr, Creative Commons.
The picture of the four froggies was taken by a second grade teacher while her students were choosing jobs for the week. She was holding those frogs in her hand as she took the picture.
You can tell that this is a work in progress. I am searching for pictures of arts and crafts depicting frogs while at the same time illustrating different styles of art. Pictures like these can be used to illustrate the Ten Little Froggies song.
Later on as the children make various art projects, I will ask them to take pictures of the various different numbers of frogs and we will make them into a class book to show off all our artwork to our families. I will make this book the focus of a Literacy Bag so that it can make the rounds of all the homes in the class.
Leapfrog Counting
Transition Tips
Photo Credit: Folk Art Frogon Flickr, Creative Commons.
Line up your crouching little froglets all facing the direction of the pond. The frog in the back starts counting as he or she leaps over all the rest of the little frogs and count each one.
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We played leapfrog to the door to recess. As each frog leaped over the last frog he got to hop off to play. It was a great incentive to get the room quickly picked up. The first child ready started at the back of the line and was the first out to recess.
Twenty Froggies by George Cooper
Using Frog Poetry to Learn to Count
This poem is one of the first poems I ever learned. It was one of my Grandma Dewey's favorite poems and she loved to recite it to my sister and I.
You can use frogs and logs to count out twenty frogs and have them sit on two logs. Recite the poem and then practice counting by 10' to twenty or by 20's as high as you can.
Twenty froggies went to school
Down beside a rushy pool.
Twenty little coats of green,
Twenty vests all white and clean.
"We must be on time," said they,
"First we study, then we play.
Always heed the golden rule,
When we froggies go to school."
Mister Bullfrog, grave and stern,
Called the classes in their turn;
Taught them how to nobly strive,
Likewise, how to leap and dive.
From his seat upon a log,
Showed them how to say "KER-CHOG!"
Also how to dodge a blow
From the rocks that children throw.
Polished now in high degree,
As all froggies ought to be,
Proudly sit upon their logs,
Teaching all the little frogs.
Frog and Logs for Counting
Photo Credit: Five Little Speckled Frogs
on Flickr, Creative Commons.
Five Green and Speckled Frogs
Five green and 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 green and speckled frogs
Glub! Glub!
(Repeat in descending order.)
FUNTASTIC FROGS COUNTERS 108 SMALL
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FUNTASTIC FROGS LOGS FOR FROGS
12 plastic logs are a perfect companion to small Funtastic Frog counters.
Use them to introduce place value.
Up to 10 small frogs can be snapped onto each 10" plastic log to represent a ten.
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Frogs, Lily pads and Counting
Frog Counters
Frogs for counting, sorting and to use as game pieces.
1. Take a small handful of frogs and sort them.
2. Count how many frogs are in each category.
How many frogs are light green?
How many frogs
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C.Y.B. Multi Frogs
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Frog Sorting Set
Sort the Frogs
Make a collection of small frogs and paper plate holders. Children use them to sort the frogs. Let the children come up with their own categories and then ask them to describe the categories.
- AppleSeed Montessori Educational Products
- Set includes twenty-five rubber frogs in five different styles, five woven sorting baskets, a lacquered wooden leaf dish, and a medium wooden carrying tray.
Skip Counting Frogs
Photo Credit: Frog Tracks
from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Frogs have four feet so when they hop they leave four footprints in the mud. Children can take small plastic frogs, dip them in brown paint and leave their tracks across a paper. Then they skip count by 4's to see how many tracks they left.
1, 8, 12, 16 ...
This is a wonderful way to ease them in to multiplication.
Insect Lore Frog Life Cycle Stages
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Skip Counting with Frogs
For more Skip Counting ideas check out:-
Skip Count, Skip Count, Count by Two's
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Skip Counting is what you do when you count by 10's, 5's or 2's. All young children learn to Skip Count but did you realize that this is one of the beginning steps to learning multiplication. This lens has rhymes, songs and activities for teaching S...
Hop and Count Along the Number Line
Counting on the Frog Number Line
1. Choose a frog counter and two dice of different colors.
2. Roll the dice and move your frog counter forward the number on the green die. Move your frog counter backward the number of spaces indicated on the red die.
3. The first one to get to 20 wins.
Funtastic Frogs Teacher's Number Line (Funtastic Frogs(tm))
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16mm D6 Red Die
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16mm d6 Green Opaque Square Edge Dice with Pips
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Frog Counters or Playing Pieces
Salt and Pepper Shakers make wonderful Game Counters
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Frog Spawn Place Value
Counting Up to One Hundred with Frog Eggs
Frogs lay their eggs in clusters but Toads lay their eggs in strings.It is difficult to count all the frog eggs but if the Toad eggs were arranged in strings of 10's with ones left over it would be much easier to count them.
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Frog Unit Study: Hopping to Learn
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Take trips to the frog pond. Become a frog and play games and sing songs, gobble up the insect words and swat the fly verbs. This lens will give you dozens of ideas, resources, hints and tricks to create frog-themed activities for both homeschool fam...
Frog Math: Predict, Ponder, Play
Hands-On Math for a Frog Unit Study
With a theme based on the Frog and Toad series, Frog Math: Predict, Ponder, Play offers ideas for free exploration, sorting and classifying buttons. There are graphing and data organization activities as well as estimating the number of small plastic frogs in a jar and the number of Lima beans in a handful.
Board games such as Frog Pond and Hop to the Pond Game help develop strategy, probability and statistical skills.
Cooperation is emphasized throughout. The California Math Council has named Frog Math as a recommended replacement unit.
Frog Math: Predict, Ponder, Play (Great Explorations in Math & Science)
Review
Engaging mathematics activities interweave literature, writing, art, and fun to bring key math concepts and skills to life. -- Today's Catholic Teacher, January, 1999
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Look who's Twittering about Counting Frogs
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- KRapson
- 20 minutes and counting until BCS announcement. Where will I be going to see my Frogs play?
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How do you count frogs?
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- Excellent -as usual!
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- This lens is fun, like it, fav, 5*
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Evelyn Saenz: Lensography of a Teacher
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My passion is teaching and finding ways to teach children in fun, hands-on, creative ways. The unit studies I make on Squidoo reflect my view that learning should be integrated and no skills should be taught in isolation. I believe that each topic s...
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