Frog Fly Swatter Game
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Grab your fly swatters, the verbs are on the loose!
We all know that frogs eat flies but did you know that frogs won't eat dead flies? A frog could starve to death if given only a bowlful of dead flies. This fact leads us to today's learning center game about verbs, the words that describe action and movement.
For this game turn your students into frogs and hand them each a fly swatter. Explain that the fly swatters are their tongues and they are hungry frogs. They can only eat the frogs that can move so they must be careful to swat only the flies with verbs on them. Verbs are the words that describe movement and motion.
Swat the verb flies such as hop, jump and leap but leave fly words such as green, slimy and fat alone. Those words are not verbs They are the dead flies with no motion.
In this game one person plays the Bullfrog who turns over the cards one by one. The others are hungry little frogs looking for a delicious meal.
Ready little frogs? Stick out your tongues and swat the verb flies...
For this game turn your students into frogs and hand them each a fly swatter. Explain that the fly swatters are their tongues and they are hungry frogs. They can only eat the frogs that can move so they must be careful to swat only the flies with verbs on them. Verbs are the words that describe movement and motion.
Swat the verb flies such as hop, jump and leap but leave fly words such as green, slimy and fat alone. Those words are not verbs They are the dead flies with no motion.
In this game one person plays the Bullfrog who turns over the cards one by one. The others are hungry little frogs looking for a delicious meal.
Ready little frogs? Stick out your tongues and swat the verb flies...
Photo Credit: Koziol Fred the Frog Measuring Tape with Fly
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What do frogs eat?
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Swat the Verb Flies: Make a deck of cards with a fly outline and a word written in the middle.
The leader turns cards over one at a time. If it is a Verb, swat it. The first one to swat a verb gets it. The one with the most cards wins.
More fly related games and ideas can be found on my Old Black Fly Unit Study lens below and Word Walls has more ideas for using fly swatters to read and write the room.
The Froggy Goggles can be used to make the game even more fun as well as for Read the Room activities.
Stamp a Fly and Swat the Verb!
Creating the Swat the Fly Frog Game!
Ultimate Fly Catcher by super_shop
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If you have a difficult time finding papers shaped like flies for this game, you can make your own fly shaped papers by stamping flies on cardstock, writing on the words and then laminating the game cards. Soon the flies will be all ready for the waiting frogs.
Frog Verbs
What can frogs do?
Frogs do many things. They move in many different ways. The words that describe this movement are verbs. To make this game, stamp the shape of a fly on cards and write these verbs on each card. As you read and learn more about frogs, look for more Frog Verbs and add them to the list here as well as to the Swat the Fly Frog Game.
Would you rather be a fly or a frog?
Would you rather be a fly swatter?
Photo Credit: Bullfrog Catches a Fly
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Flies buzz around up in the air. They zip up, down and all around. Frogs hop, jump and leap. They can live in both water and on land. Imagine the life of a fly. Now imagine the life of a frog. If you could choose to be one or the other...
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Butterfly Verb Cards
Frogs eat Butterflies Too!
These adorable butterfly sheets could be laminated to use as cards to write verbs on for the frogs to eat. In my class we brainstormed verbs related to the frog unit study theme. We chose verbs such as:
jump, hop, leap, buzz, splash, dive, croak, sit, catch, and swat
Then we brainstormed nouns related to the frog unit study theme:
frog, fly, lily pad, water, pond, air, fly swatter, river bank,
I wrote each of these words on butterfly cards, laminated
them and then scattered them around on the frog pond rug.
I handed one of the children a fly swatter and they took turns swatting the butterflies that had verbs on them.
To make the game self-checking, I wrote the word verb on the back of the verbs and noun on the back of the nouns. Soon all of the children could read each of the words as well as recognize which were nouns and which were verbs.
jump, hop, leap, buzz, splash, dive, croak, sit, catch, and swat
Then we brainstormed nouns related to the frog unit study theme:
frog, fly, lily pad, water, pond, air, fly swatter, river bank,
I wrote each of these words on butterfly cards, laminated
them and then scattered them around on the frog pond rug. I handed one of the children a fly swatter and they took turns swatting the butterflies that had verbs on them.
To make the game self-checking, I wrote the word verb on the back of the verbs and noun on the back of the nouns. Soon all of the children could read each of the words as well as recognize which were nouns and which were verbs.
Verb Games
More Games and Activities for Learning Verbs
Frog Verb Worksheets
Frog...
Available at Allposters
Frog Verb Worksheets could be added to a Frog Literacy Bag or used in a word work rotation center. I turned this worksheet into a file folder game by typing out, printing and laminating
a list of possible frog verbs. I cut apart the frog words so that the children could place a word in the sentence, read it and then if it made sense, write the word in their frog journals.You might write the frog verbs in print on one side and in cursive on the other.
Frog Verbs
Students use verbs to fill in the blanks with words related to the frog life cycle. Frog Life Cycle Worksheets- Activities and worksheets for teaching about frog metamorphosis1 point
Old Black Fly is Weary of the Frog!
Here is my Unit Study about Flies. The frogs just eat them up. Frogs and flies just naturally go to together.
Check out more Word Wall ideas as well as pointers to go with them in my Word Wall Lens.
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OhMe Feb 27, 2012 @ 11:08 pm | delete
- The Fly Eating Frog sure got my attention! blessed!
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burntchestnut
Jan 1, 2012 @ 8:47 pm | delete
- You make learning fun for kids - the way it should be!
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poutine
Jan 1, 2012 @ 9:18 am | delete
- Such a cute and useful lens.
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AnimalHouse
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- fun lens!
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ohcaroline
Jan 21, 2011 @ 5:10 pm | delete
- This is a great learning tool.
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Eevee
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- I remember that game. It was lots of fun :)
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