Music

• Singing and performing helps to build children's confidence and self-esteem, it's also FUN!
• Perform the song to an audience demonstrating an understanding of the words and actions appropriate to the song. Choose five children to perform the song.
• View the video song of "Five Little Speckled Frogs." Compare the performances.

Dance

• Build up a movement vocabulary for a frog e.g. bouncy, hopping, snapping, swimming etc.
• Within their own 'space bubble' children can move around like a frog. Teacher can play a sound source e.g. tap the desk with a ruler, clap hands or shake a maracas. When the teacher stops the sound source the children freeze, when the teacher plays the sound source again the children choose another frog movement.

Science

• What is the habitat of a frog?

Literacy

• Sing and read along to the YouTube song to achieve multi-sensory learning "Do it, see it and hear it!"

Print out the song PDF

• Read the song lyrics - ask children a variety of questions.
• Re-read the song lyrics and ask children to join in.
• Recognise and use a variety of punctuation when reading. " " ! ? . ,
• Look at print and conventions (bold, italics).
• Talk about interesting/challenging words and discuss what they mean.
• Word study - phonic knowledge, compound words, rhyming word, contractions etc.