Reptiles and Amphibians
Crafts
*crocodile puppets
*origami frogs
*paper plate snakes
*sponge shape painting
*pom-pom frogs
*walnut shell turtles
*egg carton turtle
*pop up turtle
*clay snakes
*stuffed snakes (requires a sewing machine, but only 2straight seams)
*sock snakes
*clothes pin alligators
Science
*tadpole to frog
*camouflage
Block Area
*add plastic animals to the center
Dramatic Play
*put out animal costumes and blue fabric for water, make felt lily pads
*make Franklin's house and add headbands for the other animals in the stories (they can be made easily
with plastic head bands and felt)
Circle Time
Songs:
*You Can't Make a Turtle Come Out
*There was a Little Turtle
*There Once Was a Little Green Frog, Frog, Frog
*I'm A Little Frog, Just a Pollywog
*5 Green and Speckled Frogs
*Three Little Monkeys Swinging in a Tree
*I'm Being Eaten By a Boa Constrictor
*Ga-Goo Went the Little Green Frog One Day
*Oh, She Sailed Away
Stories:
*Lyle, Lyle Crocodile
*Franklin the Turtle Series of Books
*Little Froggy Learns to Swim
*Bull Frog Grows Up
*The Frog Prince
*Crocodile Beat
*Crunch the Crocodile
*Four Seasons for Toby
*The Tale of Fergus Frog
*Frogs Fiddle
*Peter Pan
*The Tortoise and the Hare
*Alligator Pie (poem)
*Frogs, Frogs, Frogs
Games:
*5 Green and Speckled Frogs, Frog on a Log songs (act out)
*Jump the River game
*music and movement - move like the animals
Water & Sand Play
*add blue or green food colouring to water table and set up a pond with floating toys
*put out shaped sand moulds
*set up sand table to be a desert and put in different types of snakes and lizards
*add camouflage materials (rocks, boxes, pails, etc) to the sand table and plastic animals
*add snakes to the sand table for making snake tracks and hiding snakes
Outdoor Play
*Frog Bean Bag Game
*Crocodile in the Water Game
*Leap Frog
Field Trips / Special Days
*Visit the Zoo
*Have someone bring snakes, reptiles, etc to your center
Songs
5 Green and Speckled Frogs
5 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
Now there are 4 green, speckled frogs - glub, glub
4 green and speckled frogs... etc
3 green and speckled frogs... etc
2 green and speckled frogs... etc
1 green and speckled frog
Sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious bugs - yum, yum
He jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool
Now there are no green, speckled frogs - glub, glub!
A Little Frog
I'm a little frog, just a pollywog
I live in the brook underneath the bog
And because its Spring, Spring, Spring, Spring
I'm so happy that I want to sing, sing, sing.
The Turtle
(sung to:Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star)
Turtle, turtle where are you
Oh, you are so slow, slow, slow
First one hand and then the other
That's what makes you go, go, go.
Hide your wrinkly, wrinkly head
Then you cannot see, see, see
Turtle, turtle peek-a-boo
Peek-a-boo at me, me, me!
Printouts
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