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Frog Street Toddler
Nurturing Curiosity through Exploration
Frog Street Toddler, designed around the latest early brain research, includes 52 weeks of easy-to-use activities created specifically for little ones 18-36 months old. The program is designed to equip caregivers to foster essential growth, meet the needs of all learners, and embrace the joy of learning each day!
Learning Domains
The program centers around 13 thematic activity guides with activity choices categorized by learning domains:
• Language Development
• Social Emotional Development
• Cognitive Development
• Physical Development
• Approaches toward Learning
(See page 16 for a list of all 13 toddler themes.)
Created by senior author, Dr. Pam Schiller, Frog Street Toddler was designed to perfectly complement and support Frog Street Pre-K offering seamless continuity between the two programs.
Language Rich Environment
Little ones will be immersed in a language-rich environment essential
for developing both receptive and expressive language skills. Frog Street Toddler includes a literature library filled with high-interest books in English and Spanish. Bilingual Story Folders as well as teacher guides filled with rhymes, chants, and prop stories will amuse and delight toddlers.
Frog Street NURSERY RHYMES
Vocabulary words are introduced weekly in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language and complemented with Photo Activity Cards to support all learning modalities.
Lucy Loves Orange
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Illustrated by Debbie Weekly
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stop sign strawberries wagon color
rojo manzanas señal de alto fresas carreta color
◆ Serve a red snack, such as strawberries or tomatoes. Display the whole food, talk about the parts, then cut and taste. Have children report whether they liked the taste or not by stacking a red block by a smiling face label or a frowning face label.
Allergy Alert: Always check for allergies before serving children food.
◆ Explain that red often means “stop.” Invite children to clap. Signal for them to stop clapping by holding up a small red stop sign. Repeat several times and then change the movement to tapping legs or moving feet. Make stop signs by attaching red construction paper octagons to tongue depressors. Invite children to hold a stop sign while singing “Where Is the Stop Sign?”
◆ Challenge children to tell where they have seen red stop signs outside of school.
◆ Place a round red sticker on the nose of a stuffed animal. Ask children to tell you what part of the animal is red. Change
the location of the sticker, and ask again. Switch roles and let a child control the placement of the sticker and you
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Where Is the Stop Sign?
(Tune: “Where is Thumbkin?”)
Where is the stop sign? Where is the stop sign? Here it is. Here it is.
What does it tell you? What does it tell you?
It says STOP. It says STOP.
¿Dónde está la señal de alto?
(Tune: “Where is Thumbkin?”) ¿Dónde se encuentra, la señal de alto?
Aquí está. Aquí está.
¿Qué es lo que te dice? ¿Qué es lo que te dice? Dice ALTO. Dice ALTO.
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Vocabulary
Things to Do
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red
(red paper plate with center cut out or ring of red poster board).
Make one for each child. Have children hold a red ring while running on the playground or moving to music in the classroom to see the red streamers fly.
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Ask: What color are the objects in the photos? ¿De qué color son los objetos de las fotos?
Ask children to name the objects in the photos they recognize and then invite them to tell you what they know about each one.
Ask: Do you see something you can eat? What? Do you see something you can ride? What is it? ¿Ven algo que puedan comer? ¿Qué? Ven algo en lo que se puedan ir a pasear? ¿Qué es? Challenge children to name other things that are red.
Ask: How does the color red make you feel? ¿Cómo los hace sentir el color rojo?
Tell children that one of the red objects is a special sign. Sing this song and have children point to the stop sign.
name the location.
◆ Tie red ribbons or crepe paper streamers to one side of a red ring
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ISBN 978-1-60128-824-0 Photo Activity Cards
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