Description
Tadpole to frog, step by step: Freddie the Frog hatches from a soft egg in the pond, swims as a tadpole, grows legs as a froglet and hops out as a frog in this frog life cycle unit for preschool, pre-K and kindergarten, ages 3 to 6. Frog worksheets include sequencing, counting and a Frog Jumps measuring page.
Bring a pond theme week to life in the classroom, homeschool or daycare with a 5 day lesson plan, a wall poster that grows one stage a day and a Life Cycle Wheel craft. The no prep worksheets save you prep time.
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This unit is part of the Life Cycles Mega Bundle, 12 science units for the whole year. Get the bundle and save big: CLICK HERE
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WHAT'S INCLUDED
► You will get 60+ pages, including: ⤵
▴ Preschool & Pre-K and kindergarten black and white worksheets: ⤵
→ Frog Life Cycle, cut and paste (4 stages)
→ Frog Life Cycle, cut and paste (3 stages)
→ Trace the Word
→ Trace the Words
→ Color and Label
→ What Comes Next?
→ Parts of a Frog
→ Count the Frogs
→ Help the Tadpole
→ Small to Big
→ Draw the Life Cycle
→ Frog Jumps (jump and measure)
→ My Frog, draw and write
▴ Teacher Guide with a 5 day lesson plan and assessment pages
▴ Freddie the Frog, a read-aloud story in color
▴ Wall life cycle poster to build with the class
▴ Mini poster, flash cards and a chant with motions
▴ My Frog Life Cycle Book (emergent reader)
▴ Pattern coloring pages
▴ Life Cycle Wheel craft with a finished example and templates, plus a color teacher wheel to laminate
▴ Headband and certificate with a handprint frog
► Pages in US Letter size (8.5 x 11 inches). For A4 paper, choose Fit to Page when printing.
WHY TEACHERS LOVE IT
The story keeps amphibian science accurate: the mother frog lays a big clump of soft eggs in the water, the tadpole breathes with gills and swims with its tail, the back legs grow first and then the front legs, and the tail shrinks as the froglet becomes a frog that breathes with lungs and skin.
A 3 stage cut and paste lets younger children join the same lesson with a smaller step.
Bold lines, large pictures and short directions make every page easy to read, including for children who use visual supports.
✥ PERFECT FOR
◆ Homeschool spring science
◆ Preschool, Pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms
◆ Daycare and childcare programs
◆ Science and learning centers
◆ Spring, pond and amphibian theme weeks
◆ Small groups
◆ Independent practice
◆ Early finishers
★ SKILLS PRACTICED
◆ Sequencing the 4 stages of the frog life cycle
◆ Science vocabulary: egg, tadpole, gills, froglet, frog
◆ Measuring jumps with Frog Jumps
◆ Counting frogs and matching numerals
◆ Predicting what comes next and ordering by size
◆ Cutting, gluing, tracing and coloring for fine motor strength
◆ Oral language through the chant and the Life Cycle Wheel
✥ SAVE BIG WITH THE MEGA BUNDLE
Teach a new life cycle every season with all 12 units in one download: pumpkin, apple, turkey, penguin, robin, plant, butterfly, frog, chicken, ladybug, bee and sea turtle. CLICK HERE to see everything inside the Life Cycles Mega Bundle and save big.
TERMS
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