"With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be." James 3:9-10
We talked about what the verse means and we gave example of how we might use our tongue wisely and unwisely. We also sang the song, "Oh, be careful little tongue what you say..." and we made our frog badges with our words to remember written on them: "I use my tongue wisely."
Our frog-themed math worksheets:Fly Addition (www.makinglearningfun.com)
Green Addition (www.tlsbooks.com)
Frog Dot-to-Dot (www.makinglearningfun.com)
A sight word game where Madison's frog picture jumped on each lily pad as she read the word printed on it.(www.makinglearningfun.com)
Letter F Word Search and Letter Tracer(http://www.first-school.ws/t/word-search/alphabet/f2.htm)
Lily Pad Letter Tracer(www.makinglearningfun.com)
We learned about the life cycle of frogs in a few different ways. I had some pictures that I printed from www.makinglearningfun.com, and after reading some books about a frog's life cycle, I had Madison put the pictures in the correct sequential order.
Our books that we read to learn about the frog life cycle:"Growing Frogs" by Vivian French (a fun, fictitious story about a little girl who watched frogs grow from eggs)
"Frogs and Tadpoles" by Anita Ganeri
I also had Madison draw the stages of a frog's life cycle. In the top left corner you can see the eggs in the water. Next to that are her tadpoles (And in case you can't tell, those are gills on the tadpoles, not fins or legs). The bottom left corner are her froglets (tadpoles with legs). And in the bottom right corner are all her frogs.
I thought I'd give you an enlarged view of her frogs because this picture made me chuckle a bit. The frogs at the top of the page are jumping out of the water, so that is why they look like they are upside down and flying. The mama frog is at the bottom of the picture, laying more eggs. Her tongue winds all the way up above the surface of the water, to catch the same fly that all the other frogs in the picture are catching as well. The daddy frog is on the left, with his head popping out of the water. What are the lines coming down from his body? According to my daughter...that is his sperm.Yes, my 5 year old daughter has a pretty good, basic sense of the bird and the bees...and the frogs.
I checked this DVD out from our library and even though the case says it's for grades 3-6, it was pretty easy for my 3 and 5 year old to follow and understand.
We read a couple "Frog and Toad" stories by Arnold Lobel. One of them had a CD that went along with it, and Madison really enjoyed listening to the audio book during her rest time.
We read a Rainbow Fish book "The Copycat Fish" by Marcus Pfister, and we made our lowercase "f" into a Rainbow Fish.I know this book and craft don't have anything to do with frogs, but we were able to find examples in the book of how the characters were using their "tongues" wisely and unwisely.
(http://totallytots.blogspot.com/2010/07/now-i-know-my-abcs-f-is-for-fish.html)