Summary
"Five Little Speckled Frogs" is a classic counting rhyme from Gracie's Corner. As characters are added or taken away, kids count along and see numbers get bigger and smaller — early counting and take-away practice hidden inside a favorite song.
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Discussion questions
Talk about it
This song counts up and down as things come and go. Hold up fingers to match.
- How many were there to start?
- How many are left after one goes away?
- How do you know the number got smaller?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: count, how many, take away, left.
Try it: Use five objects. Take one away at a time and say how many are left each time.