Teaching Picture: Frog (Same picture as day 1)

On the download page you will find the printable pages and print out today’s teaching picture. Hold up or tape the picture to the wall in a location where the infants can see it.

Show the picture to the infants and tell them what is on the picture, the colors on the pictures, how many items are on the, etc, continue talking to baby about the picture, using your own words. Talking to baby is a good way to make a bond with the infants in your care, and help the infants feel calm and secure, plus infants enjoy listening to people talk to them and it actually helps to stimulate their brains.

Then refer to the language development below for more ideas on talking or singing to baby about today’s teaching picture. Keep in Mind: Any and all printed material is not safe for babies or small children. So do not give any printouts to baby. These are for you to hold up or attach to the wall and an adult will show the pictures to baby.

Keep in Mind: Any and all printed material is not safe for babies or small children. So do not give any printouts to baby. These are for you to hold up or attach to the wall and an adult will show the pictures to baby.

Music: Jazz

Play Jazz music for the children today.

Please Note: You can check at your local library and try to borrow some jazz music to play for the babies, if they do not have jazz music, try to select some different types of music to play for the children, such as; blues, classical, country, soft rock, etc.

Play the music softly throughout the day in the background and it would be nice to play it quietly during naptime also to help the children settle down to go to sleep and keep them sleeping with a soft back ground noise.

Language Development: Hair & Arms, Legs & Toes
Adapted from Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes Song

Hair and arms, legs and toes, legs and toes, legs and toes.
Hair and arms, legs and toes, eyes and ears and mouth and nose.

Directions: Sing the song slowly above to baby and gently touch each body part while you sing song. Do not touch baby’s eyes just put your fingers lightly on the side of baby’s face beside his eyes.

Sign Language: Daddy

Place thumb of one hand against forehead (fingers open) and tap thumb against forehead several times.

Need help with the daddy sign? Click the link in the lesson plans to view how to make the hand movements for the daddy sign.

Song/Rhyme: Two Little Frogs

Two little Frogs went out one day over the hills and far away.

Daddy frog croaked come back, come back, but only one little frog came back, came back.

So daddy frog croaked once again come back, come back and the other baby frog came hopping back.

Directions: Hold up two small toy frogs or print outs of frogs and hold them up as you recite the poem, each time you say the word “daddy” use the sign for daddy.

Group Activity: Lilly Pads

You will need:
Frog Print Out
Cloth Hair Scrunches
Clear Contact Paper
Or Clear Packing Tape

Activity: You will need one frog (toilet paper frog) per child. Place several large cloth hair scrunches onto each toilet paper frog.

Give each child one of the toilet paper frogs with several of the large cloth hair scrunches on each frog toilet paper roll and show the babies how to pull the cloth hair scrunches (pretend lily pads) off the toilet paper rolls to find the frog hidden underneath. After the babies pull off the large cloth hair scrunches teacher will put them back on, repeat until the baby’s loose interest.

Directions: Print out the frogs and cut apart and then tape them onto the toilet paper rolls. You will need one toilet paper roll per child. Then cover the toiler paper rolls with the frog picture on them completely with clear contact paper or clear packing tape.

Safety note: Supervise the children with the materials. When they start to lose interest put the materials away.

Play Time: Where’s Froggy?

You will need:
The frog toilet paper rolls from group time and one sturdy plastic cup per child.

Activity: Hold up the froggy toilet paper roll and drop it into a study plastic cup and say to the baby's "where is froggy?" Then reach into the cup and pull out the frog and say "there he is!" Then pass each baby one frog toilet paper roll and a sturdy plastic cup so they can play "where is froggy?" Show them how they can drop the frog into the cup and dump it out, pick it back up and put it back into the cup.

Safety note: Supervise babies with the materials and put away when the activity is over. Make sure you entirely cover the picture with clear packing tape to make it durable plus to cover up the ink on the picture or the ink on the pictures may get into babies mouth if it gets wet.

Sensory/Learning Time: Froggy Drum Sticks

You will need:
Frog Print Out
Toilet Paper Rolls
Clear Contact Paper
Or Clear Packing Tape
Small box for each child such as Kleenex box.

Directions:Print out the frogs and cut apart and tape one frog picture to each toilet paper roll, you will need two toilet paper rolls per child. Then cover the toilet paper rolls with clear contact paper or clear packing tape to make them durable.

Activity: Sit the babies on the floor with a Kleenex box (upside down) in front of each baby and give each baby two toilet paper rolls (drum sticks) that have been completely covered with clear contact paper or clear packing tape to make them durable and show baby how to bang the toilet paper rolls onto the Kleenex box to make a tap, tap sound.

Massage: Shoulders & Arms

When the curriculum is purchased the lesson plans will describe how to do the infant massage for baby's shoulders and arms.

Nursery Rhymes: Two Little Frogs
Adapted From Two Little Blackbirds

Two Little frogs sitting on a rock.

One name named Lucy the other named Locke. (Hold up one frog then the other frog)

Hop away Lucy; hop away Locke (hide one frog then the other behind your back)

Hop back Lucy. (Bring one frog back)

Hop back Locke. (Bring the other frog back)

Directions: Hold up two of the frog toilet paper rolls (from group time today) and use two of the frog toilet paper rolls with the rhyme above.

Please Note: Babies enjoy being read to in a loving voice while looking into your eyes. Babies actually thrive and learn from listening to poetry and nursery rhymes. So please read a lot to the babies in your care! Anytime you talk, hold, sing or do other activities with the babies in your care you are providing them with “Quality Care”.