New Feature! Early Literacy Fun for Little People

September's Fingerplay of the Month

Learning to read begins well before the first day of school. Fingerplays are a fun way to improve your favorite little person's motor skills and coordination; help them learn to follow along; or to teach concepts (up/down, body parts, counting). Fingerplays can also help your child learn to hear, make, and play with sounds; as well as words and sounds within words (phonological awareness).

We offer here the first in a once-a-month online series, featuring fingerplays that you can enjoy in early childhood programs @ your library and again at home. Let's get ready to 'ribit' and have some fun!

Three Fat Freckled Frogs (Follow-along Video plus Script)

Three fat freckled frogs
Sitting on a bumpy log
Eating some nice delicious bugs

Yum, yum!
One jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool
Now there are two fat freckled frogs

Ribit, ribit!

Two fat freckled frogs
Sitting on a bumpy log
Eating some nice delicious bugs
Yum, yum!
One jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool
Now there is one fat freckled frog

Ribit, ribit!

One fat freckled frog
Sitting on a bumpy log
Eating some nice delicious bugs
Yum, yum!
One jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool
Now there are no fat freckled frogs
Ribit, ribit!

Further Froggie Picks for Growing Readers

Here's a very short list of picture or easy frog-friendly books that grow with your learning-to-read child. Ribit, ribit!

Frog by Susan Cooper
Froggy Plays... by Jonathan London

What a Party! by Sandy Asher

Better Move On, Frog! by Ron Maris Finklehopper
Tadpole Rex by Kurt Cyrus
Frog by Irene Livingston
The Biggest Frog in Australia by Susan Roth
Frog and Toad series books by Arnold Lobel

Post developed by Kathleen Sands;
Marilou Overson served as videographer