The Little Green Frog Galump

Music
Listen to “The Little Green Frog” and focus on how the children are singing in kids song.
Play the song again and children sing along concentrating on singing in kids song.
Create actions to go with the song e.g. for “Galump went the little green frog one day” -jumping motion; “Glub, glub, glub” - close and open fingers on thumb; “Ladidah di dah” - sway hands side to side
Choose a child to make or create the sound effect as in the song.

Visual Art
Make a frog puppet using a glove, mitten or sock.

Dance
Explore frog movements e.g. hopping, swimming, snapping, jumping etc.
Teacher plays a beat on a drum or by clapping hands, children move like a frog, when the teacher changes the tempo of the beat, children choose another frog movement.

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.