Five Green Speckled Frogs

My baby's favorite felt story and rhyme. This felt story is one of my handmade creations "Arts & Crafts". Obviously the "Five Green Speckled Frogs felt story and his rhyme teaches basic mathematics from 1 to 5 and subtraction from 5 to 1. It enhances cognitive skills and rhyhtm and recognition of numbers.

Children will never get bored, when you introduce this simple but wonderful felt story. As an educator the most possible way of delivering this story is through animation, if you know how to make sounds and actions, this story is a winner.

This felt story also can be use for transition.

Five Green and Speckled Frogs

Five Green and speckled frogs

Sat on the mossy logs

Eating the most delicious bugs

Yum!!! Yum!!!

One jumped into the pool

Where it was nice and cool

Now there are four green 

Speckled frogs.

(Continue the rhyme until no more frog)

If you’re happy and you know it

Transition time:

If you’re happy and you know it, 

Clap your hands

If you’re happy and you know it, 

Clap your hands

If you're happy and you know it

Then your face will surely show it

If you're happy and you know it

Clap your hands

If you’re happy and you know it, 

stomp your feet (2x)

If you're happy and you know it

Then your face will surely show it

If you're happy and you know it

Stomp your feet

Repeat: the song but change to "shout hurray!"

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Transition Time in Child Care

When we are talking about transition, it is the changes of events. In daycare or child care, it is the time when we have to follow the daily routine or schedule, changes from one place to the other and or moving things or toys from the container to the floor and back and forth, to stop the activity and moving on to the other activity.

What is transition time in daycare? 

Transition is the most difficult time for the children particularly if they are engaged to the activity. It is also a challenging part of the educator perhaps the stressful parts of the day in the daycare or childcare. There is too much movement that it possibly gives confusion, other children may feel excitement and others may feel disoriented and lost.

Transition activity should be planned in advance and educator must be focused on. This is the time to impose discipline in order to minimize behavioral problems and chaos and to let the children know that they are still safe and secure whatever the changes of activity they may have.

Some suggested transition activity that can help in the daycare settings:

1. Songs/Rhyme 
2. Finger plays
3. Head Counting
4. Hand Clapping
5. Simon says and many more...

Example: Acka Backa

Acka Backa

Acka Backa Soda Cracker

Acka Backa Boo

Acka Backa Soda Cracker

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