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Five Little Speckled Frogs Algorithm Game Boards

April 17, 2022 By Deirdre

Five Little Speckled Frogs algorithm game boards invite children to create simple algorithm paths with arrows or flies. The set includes pages and flies that are B/W and colored. There is also a set of arrows in the set. However, your children use crayons or pencils to make arrows of their own.

What is an algorithm?

An algorithm is a series of steps a computer needs to follow to complete a task. Children can learn about building algorithms by following a simple algorithm or series of steps.

Downloading the Five Little Speckled Frogs Algorithm Set

First, you will need to download the set.

Five Little Speckled Frogs Algorithm Set Download

Second, if you don’t have Acrobat Reader you will need to download it. The algorithm page is an Acrobat Reader PDF file.

Third, you will need to go to your download file and open the page. You may be asked if you want the file to open right after you download it. If you are, you won’t have to hunt for it in your download file.

Exploring the Five Little Speckled Frogs Algorithm Game Boards

Before having the students start with the speckled frog’s algorithm game boards let them know that there are a number of ways to complete the game boards. If you have a specific path you want them to use, you can walk them through the build. If you want to leave it open-ended, that is fine too.

First, you can work through a part of a game board with your children. It will help them understand how to place the arrows in the boxes. Remember that the arrows or flies should point in the direction they will need to go to move from the box they are in into the next box to connect the numbers in order. They need to begin at the word Start and finish in the box that will lead them to the End box.
Second, children can work with a partner to complete the gameboard. They can take turns placing the arrows or flies in the squares.

Building Background

Before you start exploring the frog gameboards, you may want to read a version of Five Little Speckled Frogs. Below you will find a number of fun frog-themed books.

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More Frog Themed Activities

Frog Coloring Pages and Learning Activities- This set contains 7 frog themed free printables.

Frog Coloring Page and Learning Activities

Leap Frog Straw Rockets

Place Value Games with Pasta Printables

April 13, 2015 By Deirdre

We have been reading a lot of April Pulley Sayre’s books at our house lately to celebrate Booking Across the USA,. She was born in Greenville, South Carolina and so was my son. I thought it would be fun to read books by an author from his hometown. While we loved all of the books we read, my son and I really enjoyed a book called Noodle Man:Pasta Superhero.

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Noodle Man: the Pasta Superhero is about a man who is trying to save his family business and while doing so he ends up saving several people in his town.

How?

Al Dente’s family pasta deli isn’t doing well. It is having trouble competing with the local pizza delivery shop. Al is an inventor. He creates a fresh pasta making machine that will create the pasta of your choice right at your door. Nobody seems to want to buy fresh pasta. They just want fresh pizza. As Al is trying to sell pasta door to door, he finds himself helping the people in his town out of trouble with the pasta his machine creates. He catches thieves with spaghetti and he creates a slide to help people get out of a fire with lasagna. He uses a different type of pasta for each problem he comes across. As people come to love Noodle Man, they come to love his pasta too.

Place Value Games

I love to take a book we have enjoyed and come up with a game, craft, or activity to go with it. My son is working on place value at school so; I searched high and low to come up with clip art pasta I could use to work on this math concept.

Here is what I came up with:

Ravoli = One hundred

Fusilli = A ten

Noodle = A one

You can have your own copy of the Place Value Pasta Printables if you like.

Several Place Value Games

Game One

A number was written on a dry-erase sheet I took out of my son’s Crayola Dry Erase Activity Center that had lines and an open workspace. I wrote down a number in the lined area. My son placed the correct number of each of the pasta pieces in the open workspace. He decided that he needed to write the numbers close together under the numbers I had written. He thought they looked more like a real three-digit numbers.

Game Two

The pasta pieces were placed in the open workspace. After they were counted and the number was figured out, the number was written on the lines below the open space.

Game Three

Three dice were rolled. Once it was decided that numbers were going represent the hundreds, tens, and ones, they were displayed with pasta pieces.

There are probably more place-value games that you can play with these pasta pieces that I haven’t even come up with. If you think of some that you would like to share, please leave a comment below or leave a comment on my Facebook page.

Here are some other wonderful math activities:

Slam Dunk Number Facts

Ladybug Roll and Cover Mats

Seeing and Adding Double Facts

Word Problem Fortune Teller

As I mentioned earlier, we picked an author not only from South Carolina but from my son’s birthplace in South Carolina. A number of other bloggers are sharing books from their states. I hope you will take a moment to check out their book selections.

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Valentine’s Day Crafts- My Heart Is Like A Zoo

January 21, 2015 By Deirdre

Tying together a book with crafts and learning activities based on it is a lot of fun. Recently we did just that with the book My Heart is like a Zoo. My Heart is Like a Zoo is a wonderful children’s book that compares various animals to love. What fun it is to read just how the storyteller’s heart is like each of the animals. Each illustration of an animal is made of layered hearts. Recreating these Valentine’s Day crafts to place on cards for JDaniel to give and learn with seemed like a great idea. (See yesterday’s post 8 People Kids Can Give Valentines Cards to find out who we will be giving cards to.)

Before starting the card-making process you may want to go back through the story and talk about why each animal fits with the love description shared with it. At my house, we thought some were perfect matches. We came up with other descriptors we thought fit better with others. It was fun to walk through the book again and share our insights.

How did I make the cards?

Craft Supplies:

Origami paper
Glue sticks
Scissors
White Cardstock

Valentine’s Day Crafts Tips

Origami paper worked out to be the best paper for creating heart animals. At first, I thought about tissue paper. It is thin enough for the bottom layers of tissue to show through. It is also a little bit of a challenge to cut. If you were going to try to make these cards too, I wanted to use a type of paper that would be easy to cut. Origami paper worked out really well.

I experimented with the different colors that the illustrator had chosen for his pictures. Changing some of the heart’s colors associated with Valentine’s Day seemed like a fun thing to do.

Children just need to look through the book to find an animal they want to try to recreate or be inspired to create a totally new animal.

I used white cardstock. It was much easier to see the layered hearts on the white paper than it was to work with a darker color like red or purple.

Directions:

Step One

Cut out all the shapes you will need to create your animal.

Step Two

Try putting the pieces together the way you want them arranged before you glue them together.

Step Three

Glue the hearts into position. I found that it was easiest for the smaller shapes to the largest shape. All the shapes that went on the bottom were glued first and then the shapes on the top.

Step Four

Finally, glue each of the animals to a piece of white card stock folded in half hamburger style.

Other Ways to Use These Valentine’s Day Crafts

Instead of making cards with the animals you could glue each of them to an index card and add a popsicle stick to the back. They would make great retelling puppets.

You could leave the popsicle sticks off the back of the index cards and use the animal cards to make a sequencing game.

If you try these Valentine’s Day crafts, please leave me a comment below telling me about it or share a picture of it on my Facebook page.

Read A Book and Explore Its Theme

October 4, 2014 By Deirdre

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Books are a tool that can help children build a foundation of understanding of a wide variety of concepts and themes. Children who have never visited a farm can see what it looks like and what they would see on one when you read a book to them. Children who have never experienced the desert and its plants can come home from school excited about seeing the biggest cactus in the world illustrated in a book. My son did just that this week when his teacher read a book to his class called Cactus Hotel .

This week’s The Sunday Showcase featured posts each include a fun book and then how the themes and concepts of that book were explored. Sometimes the activity they did was a craft, others played a game, created a learning tool, or made a sensory activity. In all the posts children had an opportunity to build or create a knowledge base on a concept or theme after someone took the time to read them a book.

After exploring the posts below, I hope you will read a book and explore its themes with your children.

Wugs and Dooey created an amazing sensory bin to go along with the book What The Ladybird Heard.

I love how Bits of Postivity has integrated children’s books into teaching children about hunger awareness!

Enchanted Homeschooling Mom has created a glow in the dark craft that goes along with the book Room on the Broom.

You are going to love Buggy and Buddy’s map and binocular crafts that were created to go with the book We’re Going On A Bear Hunt!

Frank Was A Monster Who Wanted to Dance looks like a fun book. Chicken Babies created a fun game to play after reading this book.

Go Away Big Green Monster! was read to children and then they created their own Big Green Monsters in a post by The Jenny Evolution.

Study at Home Mama has collected 10 awesome book exploration activities. They are really wonderful.

Handmade Kids art explored the book Spookley Square Pumpkin. What cute pumpkins the children created!

Sound exploring was done after reading the book The Magic Schoolhouse in the Haunted Museum in a post by One Time Through. The children look like they had a great time exploring.

Preschool Powol Packets created a croaking frog after reading the book the book Room on a Broom. What a cute idea!

Book-A-Day has created a round up of book and extension activities too. They are also amazing!

The paper chain skeleton created by rubberboots and elf shoes is super cute. They made it after reading the book Skeleton’s Hiccups.

You are going to love the sound box Cutting Tiny Bites created for kids explore after reading the book Click, Clack, Boo!

The Sunday Showcase is hosted on the following blogs:

JDaniel4′s Mom

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas

Here Come the Girls

Inspiration Laboratories

We each feature different posts that have linked up, so be sure to check everyone out! We’ll also be pinning our favorites to our Pinterest board.

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Halloween Crafts- Egg Carton Skeleton and Bone Soup

October 1, 2014 By Deirdre

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You are probably familiar with the story Stone Soup. Recently JDaniel and I checked the story Bone Soupout of the library. It has a very similar theme. A traveler comes into town hoping to find someone who will give him some food. Word of the traveler and their appetite have preceded their arrival in the town. Through wise thinking and a desire by the town’s people to make the best bone soup the whole town ends up with a hearty dinner. We created Halloween crafts to go along with this wonderful tale. We used it for retelling. I think it would be great for a variety of activities.

Halloween Crafts-Egg Carton Skeleton

The first craft was an egg carton skeleton. The skeleton was made using only the parts of one gray cardboard egg carton. Yep! Just one egg carton was used to create the whole skeleton.

Cutting Out the Skeleton’s Body

Let me walk you through which part of the egg carton was used to create each body part:

Skull- Two full egg cups and two egg cups connected to them cut diagonally. The lower egg cups were cut down to create the skeleton’s jaw.
Shoulders- Each shoulder was cut from the indentions on the top of the egg carton.
Arms- Each arm as cut from the top flap of the egg carton. Each arm came from the outside edge of that flap.
Chest- Four eggs cups form the chest. Slits were cut in the side of the egg cups to create the ribs. Actually four slits were cut into each side of the rib cage.
Legs- Each leg comes from the bottom flap of the egg carton. The flap with the nubs that you put through the top flaps holes to keep the carton closed.
Hand and Feet- The hands and feet were cut out of top section of the carton that doesn’t open.

The various parts of the skeleton were cutout free hand. You might want to cut a hand or foot print pattern and trace them onto the carton. Kids could cut out all the parts on their own if they are great with scissors. If you are working with younger children, you will want to cut out the rib cage for them.

Making The Skeleton’s Body White

When all the all the skeleton’s body parts were cut out, the skeleton was painted white with tempera paint. The egg carton is so porous it just absorbs the paint. Only one coat of paint was applied to a grey cardboard egg carton to make it white.

Playing with the Skeleton

During the story the skeleton named Finnigin looks forward to arriving in the town and getting a great meal. The skeleton’s arms can be arrange so that it looks like he is looking ahead and thinking about a meal.

Finnigin tries to get someone to open their door and feed off his hunger, but he does’t have any door open for him. He finally decides to set up his cooking pot and get it boiling with water.

A young werewolf volunteers who has various soup making ingredients like bat wings. The skeleton can be arrange so that he has one hand raised.

In the end they all end up with a wonderful meal.

I have paraphrased the story to show you various ways the various parts of the Halloween crafts’ arms can be move to retell the story. You are going to want to read the story in its entirety. It is really wonderful.

Halloween Crafts- Bone Soup

The various soup ingredients can be cut out of construction paper ahead of time and children can add them to their paper soup bowls. Children could also cut out their own ingredients to add to their soup bowls.

Some of the ingredients mentioned in the story are:

Bat wings
Eyeballs
Frog’s legs
Dandelions
Toenails
The bone

What are some other activities you could do with this egg carton skeleton? Leave me a comment below sharing your kid friendly activities.

Kids Building with Drinking Cups and 365 Penguins

July 1, 2014 By Deirdre

Play Dr. Mom sent us the book 365 Penguins (Reissue), some craft supplies, and over 400 drinking cups as a part of The Educators’ Spin On It’s Love Books Summer Exchange. After only a few minutes of looking at the book, it became on of our favorites. The book contains a lot of humor, fun pictures and a cute story. Play Dr. Mom had told us we would love it and she was right! She also said kids building with cups would be a hit and she was right. She is one smart lady.

Before I tell you about building or stacking with cups let me tell you about the book 365 Penguins. In the book a new penguin is delivered everyday for a whole year. There is very unclear explanation that comes with each penguin in their shipping box until the very end of the book. What we do learn is that the family that receives them has to figure out what to do with them. Stacking them in just one of the fun ideas they come up with. What they do with the penguins and where they put them in their home is where the humor of this book comes in.

Kids Building

We were supposed to create a penguin using the craft supplies that were sent to us and at least one of the drinking cups. After seeing the penguins stack up in the book, JDaniel really wanted to try stacking all the cups instead. About that time the next door neighbor called to ask if he could play. Both boys ended up creating grand walls on the kitchen table. One set the goal of having the longest wall and the other the most fancy. Both walls turned out great!

Later we took the cups outside to build water gun targets. It was a little windy and the walls kept falling over. JDaniel and the now two boys from next door kept building them up and looking for areas on the front walk that were free from wind. It was wonderful to watch and hear the plans they were making to get walls to stay up.

First a long wall was built.

Then smaller walled buildings were built.

Finally they used the cups to create a walled city on the front porch. Each boy picked an area and worked on creating a wall. It was less windy there. These walls stayed up until it was time to head in for dinner.

The front of the porch received its wall first.

Then we all worked on the side of the porch and the area near the front door.

I just love watching the kids buildings grow. Each one required creative thinking and planning.

I need to thank Play Dr. Mom for a book we have read numerous times since her package arrived and many hours of many days filled with building. The plastic drinking cups have become the boys favorite building toy. We will make the penguins later. I promise.

I also want to thank the ladies from The Educator’s Spin on It for including us in their book exchange.

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Preschool Activities – LEGO Duplo Creations and Books

May 26, 2014 By Deirdre

My favorite preschool activities usually involve reading a book or singing a song and then exploring the book through an activity. Recently we used LEGO Duplo blocks to explore animals in the song Over in the Meadow. We later read several versions of the song in story form. What fun we had!

Here are our creations along with the song:

Over in the Meadow

In a pond in the sun,

Lived an old mother duck

And her little duck one,

“Quack!” said the mother,

“Quack!” said the one,

And they quacked and were happy

In the pond in the sun.

Over in the meadow

In a stream so blue,

Lived an old mother fish

And her little fish two,

“Bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop!” said the mother,

“Bloop, bloop!” said the two,

And they swam and were happy

In the stream so blue.

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Over in the meadow

In a nest in the tree,

Lived an old mother bird

And her birdies three,

“Tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet!” said the mother,

“Tweet, tweet, tweet!” said the three,

And they sang and were happy

In the nest in the tree.

Over in the meadow

On a rock by the shore,

Lived an old mother frog,

And her little frogs four,

“Ribbit!” said the mother,

“Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit! said the four,

On a rock by the shore.

Over in the meadow

In a big bee hive,

Lived an old mother bee

and her little bees five,

“Buzz!” said the mother,

“Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz!” said the five,

And they buzzed and were happy

In the big bee hive.

Activities We Did

We went over the song Over in the Meadow by singing it.
Then we made LEGO Duplo Creations to represent the animals in the song.
Next we pointed to each animal as they came up in the song as we sang it.
We took picture walked (looked through the book’s pictures) and then read the books.
Finally we talked about how each book version was different and how they were the same.

You may find that you really like some of the activities above and there others you don’t want to do. The reason I gave you a list was so that you could choose the preschool activities that you really liked.

Preschool Activities Supplies

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LEGO Classic Medium Creative Brick Box 10696 Building Toys for Creative Play; Kids Creative Kit (484 Pieces)

Over in the Meadow

Over in the Meadow: An Old Nursery Counting Rhyme

Over in the Meadow

Here are some other book exploration preschool activities that we have done:

Should I Share My Ice Cream?

Countdown to Kindergarten

Apples A to Z

Space Boy

Butterfly Count

You can find other children’s book activities on my Read.Explore.Learn. Pinterest boards.

Acorn Math Activities

November 8, 2013 By Deirdre

Last fall we were down on the main street in the town we live in. The local bank had a sea of acorns all over the parking lot. I remember slipping my feet across the ground so I could push the acorns out of my way. A couple of weeks ago I remembered the plethora of acorns and headed back to the bank parking lot to gather some to use for math acorn math activities.

I set out several math activities for JDaniel to do and then let him explore and work with the acorns to complete them. The first activity was to move one acorn at a time using chopsticks with a rubber band around them. (The rubber band makes the chopsticks easy to use.) I asked him to count by ones as he moved them. He later tried counting by 5’s and 10’s as he moved them. The numbers he was counting when we counted by 5’s and 10’s weren’t represented by the appropriate number of acorns. It was a great way though to work on skip counting.

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The second activity I shared was to count on by ones and put one more acorn into the next cup and then the cup before it had. We discovered that the cups would only hold five acorns. Rather than continue to do this activity using the ice cube tray we moved on to another type of container.

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The containers we moved to were cupcake liners. The cupcake liners had a lot more room and were able to hold a lot more. We were able to count to 10. Every acorn was moved with chopsticks.

Why did we use chopsticks for the math activities? Holding and manipulating the chopsticks uses the same muscles as holding a pencil. Using chopsticks is a great way to work on fine motor skills.

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For the last of the math activities, we used two different patterned cupcake liners and acorns. I asked JDaniel to arrange the cupcake liners in an ab pattern.

Then I asked him to put one acorn in the first liner, two in the second liner, and so on. When he had ten acorns in the last cup, I explained to him that all the cups with spider webs on them were odd numbers. That means that 1,3, 5, 7, and 9 are odd numbers. The even numbers were in the liners with the leaf design. That means that 2,4,6, and 8 are even numbers.

I wanted him to get the idea that the even and odd numbers follow an ab pattern. After looking at the cups carefully, he was able to explain to me which cups were even and which were odd and why. In the event nut cups, each nut has a buddy. In the odd nut cups, one nut is leftover.

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A Book with a Nut Theme

It is fun to share a book that features the same theme or concepts as the activity you have just completed. We used nuts for these math activities so, I picked a book that featured nuts. What did we read? We read the book, Earl the Squirrel. Earl is a squirrel without the desire to find nuts on his own. He has befriended a young girl who supplies him with nuts. (She even provides him with a red scarf. ) Earl’s mom thinks he is spoiled and needs to learn to take care of himself.

Earl decides he needs to prove his mom wrong and that he can do it on his own. By the end of the book, he does learn to find nuts on his own. It isn’t easy. There is a large bull in a field that contains a tree with nuts. Earl has to figure out a way to get the nuts poured down and get past the bull.

Earl the Squirrel is a book filled with adventure, challenges, and tender moments. We loved this fun tale by the author Corduroy and I bet you will too.

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{Read.Explore.Learn.} Math Activities- Number Recognition

September 20, 2013 By Deirdre

Apples A to Z literally shared facts about apples from a to z. A small fox and his friends fill the fun illustrations with displays of what each page is discussing. Simple concepts like when the apple falls off the tree fruit forms to grafting branches from one kind of tree to another produce healthier trees. JDaniel was fascinated with grafting and how it works. I was impressed that Margaret McNamara found varieties of apples from a to z. I have never heard of the queen cox or the Xavier de Bavay much less the za ber gau.

This book does another amazing thing. It delivers information for each letter of the alphabet that doesn’t seem forced or trite. Each word selected for each letter is interesting and adds to the trip through the alphabet. It does this with humor, fun facts and great pictures by Jake Parker.

How did we explore this book?

Math Activities for Preschoolers

Writing Number Activity

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JDaniel invented his own way to write many of the numbers. Despite being shown how to write them correctly. Now that he is in school, he has to write them using the traditional style of number writing. I decided to create for him some writing number cards.

The cards were created to have two steps. The first step is to trace over the number on each of the cards. The second step is to write the number inside of the apple on each card. So we would be able to use the cards over and over again the cards were placed in plastic sleeves. (If you have access to a laminator, you can laminate the cards. I may laminate the cards later on.)

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How did I make them?

There are lots of writing number activity sheets available online. JDaniel does worksheets at school and while these look a lot mini worksheets I hoped they would be different enough for him. I simply went into Paint and drew a rectangle. Into the rectangle, I placed a clip art apple and the dotted number. I repeated this process over and over until I had the number 1-9. The pictures were then inserted into Word in rows of three and then printed out.

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Apple Addition

Themed work mats are a great place to work on addition facts with counters. I made these apple mats to go along with this book. JDaniel was asked to roll a pair of dice and decide which number would go into which white section of the apple. Then he placed the correct number of buttons into each section. ( The buttons were supposed to look like seeds.)

You will notice that I put a plus sign in the core of the apple. I want to be able to use the mats for subtraction too. Leaving the brown paper area of the empty and writing it on the apple when it was in the plastic sleeve allowed me to write the function we were focusing on when we needed it.

When JDaniel had counted the button on both sides to find the sum, I had him place the number tracing card with the answer beside the work mat.

He did a great job of working with the counters and the concrete numbers. It is so important to hit more than one type of learning when working on concepts. I think these math mats do just that.

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Read.Explore.Learn is Changing

August 9, 2013 By Deirdre

Read.Explore.Learn. has always been a link up that shares ways people are exploring concepts in the children’s books with children. It has always been up on Fridays and it will stay that way. I have decided to offer the option of linking up your post to the Read.Exlore.Learn. Facebook page instead.

Each post will still be visited and truly book related post will be shared with others. I try to share the posts linked to Read.Explore.Learn. on a variety of social media sites. Lately I have been sharing them on the Read.Explore.Learn Pinterest board, Google +, and Facebook.

I am hoping that I will be working full time this fall. Having some of your post already post on the Read.Explore.Learn. Facebook page will allow other readers to see your post faster.

There will not be a Read.Explore.Learn link up on the blog tomorrow. (I will be participating in a Kid Blogger Network Back to School event. ) Please place your link on the Read.Explore. Facebook page so will not not miss out on seeing your amazing posts. Oh! Please make sure it is about an activity done after reading a children’s book. All other posts will be deleted.