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April is National Frog Month
Lets have some fun learning about frogs!

10 Facts About Frogs
- Frogs belong to a group called vertebrates (animals with backbones) known as amphibians.
- Frogs eat insects
- Frogs have flipper (webbed) feet.
- Frogs have strong back legs that help them jump and hop
- They start out as pollywogs.
- Frogs lay their eggs in ponds and bogs.
- Many frogs are found in warmer climates
- They sit on stones and logs
- They usually don’t have scales
- Most frogs have sticky tongues.
DID YOU KNOW:
When a frog swallows a meal, his bulgy eyeballs will close and go down into his head! This is because the eyeballs apply pressure and actually push a frog’s meal down his throat. “YUM”
Song About Frogs
A fun song to teach children facts about frogs. They will learn about the environment that frogs live in, what they eat, their appearance, and more. The extremely smart Owlton W. Hootley sings this song.
In the album version, before Owlton begins singing he talks with Billy Gorilly about wanting to be “COOL”. Billy helps him understand that it’s OK to be smart and “kind of nerdy”.
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Activities
Hop and Jump: This is a great way for the kids to burn off a little energy.
Have the children hop straight up into the air every time they hear “HOP” or “JUMP” while listening to the HOPPING TOADS AND JUMPING FROGS song. This activity is sure to get a few giggles, gets the kids moving, and helps them listen for key words.
Musical Lily Pads: Create lily pads for the kids to sit on. Draw a lily pad on green construction paper, cutout and laminate if desired. Place on floor so the kids can sit on them. Now you can play musical lily pads. (play just like musical chairs).
Color A Picture
F is for Frogs
Make a Tasty Treat: Frog Theme Recipe
Help the Frog Make His Way Through the Maze

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Springtime Coloring Pages
We have an Easter Bunny coloring page for you. I think he’s pretty cute, I hope you do too!
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Spring is Here and it Makes Me Happy

Don’t you just love spring? I do. I love all the different flowers starting to bloom in our yard and neighborhood. Spring is a great time to teach children about different types flowers.
Here are a few ways for you to bring flower education into the classroom.
Listen to a song about Flowers

Listen to Billy Gorilly’s friend Betty Bat sing the song Flowers
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Color a Picture with Flowers
Get out the crayons and let the kiddos color as they listen to music.
If you are looking for a flower art project that includes coloring, cutting, and gluing you might enjoy this 3-D flower art project.
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White Carnation Science Project
Even though it was a very long time ago, I still remember doing this in class when I was in kindergarten. I remember how excited I got when the flower started changing colors. I also remember teaching my friends this trick when I was in 7th grade and we had a fund-raiser selling carnations. Learn more about the science behind it here.
Directions:
- Fill a glass one-half full with water. Add around 20-30 drops of red, blue, green, or yellow food coloring to the water.
- Take a white carnation and carefully cut the stem at an angle. Kids will need help with this because you should use sharp scissors or a knife to do this.
- Immediately put the stem into the water. Set aside and wait for the magic to happen. It usually takes a few hours before you will start seeing a color change. Look at your flower each day and take note of the changes.
Make a Flower Themed Pencil Topper
This flower pencil topper is easy to make and fun to use. I thought it was so cute I put it in my wall organizer above my desk at the Billy Gorilly headquarters.

Supplies Needed:
- 2 different sizes of heart-shaped punches

- 2 different colors of construction paper
- Glue
- Tape
- 1 Pipe cleaner
- Glitter glue or sequins
Directions:

- Punch 4 large hearts and 4 small hearts (use the picture above for example)
- Cut a square out of one color of paper. Mine was 3″x3″.
- Glue the 4 large hearts in the center of the square of paper.
Have the points of the heart touching each other. - Glue the small hearts on top of the larger hearts.
- Add glitter glue or gem on center of flower
- Cut around the square paper with hearts to shape the flower.
- Take a pipe cleaner and wrap one end around pencil as shown in picture. Leave some extra at the top. Tape pipe cleaner to back of flower. If you want both sides to be pretty, make 2 flowers and tape one to the back to cover the tape and pipe cleaner.
Take the Kids on a Nature Walk
Go on a nature walk with the kids. Discuss the types and colors of the different flowers you see on your walk. Ask questions… Are these BIG flowers, little flowers, tough flowers, or delicate flowers. Do you see any flowers on a vine? Does the flower smell pretty, stinky, or not at all?
This is also a good time to talk about things you might see during different seasons. What do the plants look like during spring. Are the leaves on trees just budding and turning green? Or, are they changing to red, yellow, brown and starting to fall off.
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Colors of the Rainbow
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Perfect for St. Patrick’s Day or teaching a child the colors of the rainbow.
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COLORS OF THE RAINBOW song
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Billy Gorilly Show episode #33

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Colors of the Rainbow and Five Senses.
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Spring is in the air…
Let’s make some 3-D flowers.
This little craft is easy on the budget and easy to complete. Print the template (includes instructions), color the pictures, cut out the pictures, glue, and tape. Use scraps of paper to pop out the tulip. Easy Peasy!
While you’re making your flower craft why not play a song about flowers for the kids.
Here is a flower song by Billy Gorilly’s cartoon friend Betty Bat

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Five Senses
See • Hear • Smell • Touch • Taste
From the time babies are born they are learning about the world around them using their senses.
Exposing children to different textures, tastes, smells, sounds, and sights helps them learn about what’s going on in this great big world we live in.
When you are teaching children about the five senses it’s a good idea to break the lessons down into segments. Take a day to go over the sense words and associated body parts. Then, spend a day/lesson exploring each sense, spreading the lessons out over 5 or 6 days.
This post focuses on teaching children the names of the five senses and which part of the body is associated with each sense.
Let’s get started…
Introductory Activity
A good way to get the lesson started and introduce the children to the five senses is to play a Five Senses song. A song can set the stage for sense exploration by keeping things fun and light. Hearing the words in a rhythmic way and singing along helps children remember the different sense words. This is a great tool to use for ESL learners. Children can listen over and over, which will help them remember how each word is pronounced.
When the song is playing, point to each part of the body as the words are spoken. Encourage the children to do the same thing. Explain to them they are using their sense of hearing to listen to the song.
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Billy Gorilly’s Five Senses song
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Lyrics to Five Senses song
You’ve got one, two, three, four, five senses
Making sense of the world in a logical way
One, two, three, four, five senses
Telling you what’s around you everyday
Not one, two, three, or four
You’ve got five senses
You can see, hear, smell, touch, taste
The first sense we’re gonna talk about is the sense of sight
Use your eyes to recognize the light of day or the dark at night
The second sense that we’ll talk about is the sense of hearing now don’t you know
Use your ears to hear far and near, rockin’ music or voices whispering soft and low
The third sense we’re gonna talk about is the sense of smell
Use your nose, cause it always knows if it’s rotten bad or fresh and swell
The fourth sense to talk about is the sense of touch
Use the skin that you’re sitting in to tell hot or cold, smooth or rough
The fifth sense that we’ll talk about is the sense of taste
Use your tongue, when you’re old or young,
To know sour lemon or sweet chocolate cake
Coloring Activity
Download and Print Five Senses coloring page
Using a simple coloring page, like the one below, introduces the five sense words to the children. Discuss the different senses and which part of the body is associated with each sense. Point to each body part and have the children say which sense is associated with it. The coloring page also helps the children learn how to read and spell the sense words.
Make A Five Senses Book
A Five Senses book is not just a fun craft, it also gives kids something to look at and refer to when they are not in class.
You can use a printable book template like the one in the picture, found in the Rockin’ the SchoolHouse Printables, Vol. 2 eBook. If you use a template simply print out the pages, fold, and staple together. The children can get right to work attaching textured paper, making and attaching a rice shaker, adding a scent to the sense of smell page, or adhereing a piece of foil so they can see their reflection.They will also learn which part of the tongue tastes sweet, salty, sour, and bitter. The template comes with instructions.
If you don’t want to use a template, no worries, make a five senses book from scratch. Give each child 3 sheets of paper, fold the paper in half, and staple together.
Help each child write the title “My Five Senses” on the cover. Have them decorate the cover with pictures they cut out from magazines or they can draw their own.
Help each student as needed to write a sense name on each page (Smell, Taste, See, Hear, Touch)
Cut pictures out of magazines of ears, eyes, noses, mouths, and fingers and have the children paste them in their books. Let the kids draw pictures of things they like to eat, see, or smell. Adhere textured paper/items on the touch page. Think velvet, sandpaper, bumpy paper, or fuzzy fabric. Have them trace their fingers and glue the different textured paper/item to each finger.
Encourage the children to flip through the pages in their book and talk about the different senses and which part of the body is associated with each sense.
The mini-books give the children something to refer back to. At the beginning of each lesson have the children turn to the page in their book that talks about the sense being explored that day.
More Five Senses Activities
- Hear Set up a listening station with different small instruments or make shakers with different things inside (beans, rice, broken crayons etc.). Have the children listen to the different sound each shaker makes.
- Touch Set up plastic boxes with different textured items in them. Something soft, fuzzy, grainy, wet, gooey, and smooth.
- Smell Set up a smelling station – Have the kids smell each item, then have them close their eyes and try to tell what the different smells are. Items you can use might be something like a cut lemon, orange, onion, banana, cinnamon sticks, peppermint oil on a cotton ball, flowers, or herbs like rosemary.
- Sight Use a non-breakable mirror to show the children their reflection. Turn out the lights. Explain that we use our sense of sight to tell the difference between light and dark.
- Taste Set up a tasting station. Use things like lemon wedges, pickles, potato chips, grapefruit, apple, or raisins. After the children taste the food talk about the different flavors sweet, salty, bitter, and sour. Have them close their eyes and taste the food again to see if they can determine what they’re tasting.
Five Senses Audio and Printable Resources:
Rockin’ the SchoolHouse, Vol. 2
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That’s All For Now…
There are so many fun things you can do to help children learn about the five senses. I can’t add them all here or this blog post would be a mile long.
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