These frog friends have been super helpful with sorting, patterns, and counting. Today we used them as a planning tool. Some children made patterns with the frogs, and then decided what they would do next with their time at Harmony's House. Other children focused on the fine motor activity of putting one frog on each bump to fill the log, and chose the colors that they most enjoyed. These children were asked to count the frogs before they moved onto their own plans. Some of the conversations between the children during this activity were:
- "I'm going to make a pattern with purple and blue."
- "I am going to do orange and red. I changed my mind. I want to add green and yellow too."
- "I have three green frogs."
- "Mine is a rainbow log. My mom told me all the colors of the rainbow but I forgot what comes next."
- "A pattern has parts that happen over and over."
