Test students' knowledge of the frog life cycle with an interactive game. Print out or draw pictures that illustrate the stages of the life cycle of a frog: eggs, tadpoles, froglet and frog. Print out or draw two sets of life cycle images. Set the cards out in a mixed-up pile and invite two children to arrange the cards in the correct order. The first child to arrange the cards in the correct order wins the frog life cycle game.
Allow children to explore frogs through literature. Fill your classroom with a variety of fiction and nonfiction frog-themed books. Fiction titles to consider include "The Icky, Sticky Frog" by Dawn Bentley, "The Wide Mouth Frog" by Keith Faulkner and "Jump, Frog, Jump!" by Robert Kalan. Nonfiction titles you may consider include "Frogs" by Gail Gibbons, "From Tadpole to Frog" by David Stewart and "Why Frogs are Wet" by Judy Hawes. Encourage children to read the titles on their own, or read them aloud as a whole-class activity. Create a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the similarities and differences, if any, between the fiction and nonfiction titles.
Use lily pads and frogs as a means of practicing addition. Draw and cut out images of lily pads. Present children with addition problems and have them place an amount of frog toys on one lily pad to represent the first addend in the addition problem and instruct them to place an amount of frogs on the second lily pad that represents the second addend. To determine the sum of the problem, students count the total number of frogs on the lily pads.
Turn paper plates into frogs with a hands-on craft activity. Provide children with paper plates and instruct them to paint the plates green. While the paint is drying, have children trace both of their hands on green construction paper and cut them out. When the plates have dried, have each child glue his handprints onto the back of either side of the bottom of his paper plate, creating legs for a frog. Offer children two large googly eyes apiece and have them glue the eyes to their paper plates. To complete the craft, each child can glue a piece of pink or red yarn to the plate as a mouth.