Could you make some puppets to represent Grumpy Frog and Pink Rabbit? Use them to perform the story to an audience. As they call just before the rainy season, some tribes thought that the frogs determined the forthcoming weather. 5 13. The habitat type in which the live is a sanctuary to many other animals and plants

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Our venues are often busy, particularly at weekends and Bank Holidays, so advance booking for larger parties is advisable. Most of the text in the story is written using direct speech. Can you rewrite part of it using reported speech? These frogs live only on the mountain slopes in the Southwestern Cape of South Africa. 6. They can’t hop away, but they are expert diggersThey are unable to hop due to their body shape, and instead move ponderously by walking on their relatively short legs. These amphibians are extremely rounded in body shape, with shorts legs and a downward facing mouth, giving the impression the frog is constantly grumpy. They also have the ability to inflate themselves with air, to make their appearance larger to predators.

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Look again together at the picture of grumpy frog sitting on the log. Talk about grumpy frog, his feelings and how they change, Grumpy Frog is not grumpy!He is excited about green (but only green, definitely not pink),he loves hopping... and he loves towin!But what happens when Grumpy Frog doesn't win, or encounters...a pinkrabbit? Age 3-5+ years In this striking picturebook we meet a very grumpy frog with so many issues – he only likes green things, absolutely hates pink, won’t go swimming because the water is blue or bouncing because the trampoline is yellow. He does enjoy hopping and racing, just as long as he wins of course. However when he unsurprisingly ends up with no friends, grumpy frog feels pretty sorry for himself. How will he react when a (pink!) rabbit offers to play with him? A funny story about feeling grumpy, compromising, saying sorry and making friends. A book with lots of appeal and resonance for adults as well as children. Its creator, Ed Vere speaks about the story and reads aloud from it here

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As children become familiar with the story encourage them to join in, for example with the ‘I’m not grumpy’ parts or with the narrator commentary – eg say hello to grumpy frog. Talk about the story While this book's text and illustrations are simple, there are many things that can be discussed after reading this story. Grumpy Frog by Ed Vere starts with a happy frog that loves winning, hopping, and the color green. All other colors can easily turn him from happy to grumpy. But pink is his all-time worst color. While his friends are just fine with all colors, his reluctance to accept anything but green leaves him unable to join his friends when they are swimming (blue water), bouncing (yellow trampoline) and enjoying other things together. Frog holds tight to his thinking that all colors except green just don’t work for him and cause him to be grumpy. So he sits alone. Without friends. Convincing himself that he is fine. But will something help him change his mind? Or will he remain strong regarding his thoughts and feelings? And is there even a legitimate reason to feel happy and grumpy? Spending most of their time underground, this provides safety from predators as well as good access to moisture and possible prey.