Frog Unit Study Ideas for Kids

Somewhat piggybacking off the post about insect and spider crafts, another great creature that some kids really love is frogs.

The Jenny Evolution has a great roundup of books about frogs (The Wide-Mouth Toad is one of our favorites!). Even better, there’s a great collection of other resources for learning about and playing with frogs in the post.

Check out our very own Frog Life Cycle lapbook available for download here.

There’s a lot of stuff there, from anatomy to games to writing prompts, so you should check them all out, but here are a few more of my favorites:

This Frog Themed Color Word Book from Books and Giggles is adorable for your new readers (and fun to color, too).

The Natural Homeschool has a set of printables on the frog life cycle.

The appropriately named Frog Mom has five frog exercises for kids.

And I love Artsy Mama’s recycled K-cup frog and fun skip counting activity (on lily pads, of course).

Do you have a kid who loves frogs? I’d love to know if you try any of these activities!

[Photo via The Jenny Evolution.]

You can make a lesson with this craft by adding a children’s storybooks about frogs to the lesson.

Here are some more crafts

Bean Bag frog

Water Lilly Frog Kids Craft

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I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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