The End, Froggie!

Sunday, May 21, 2006

Hello, world of blogging!


Hello, world of blogging! The Froggie family has decided to hop from our bog and into a blog. It's the dry season and we're just looking for something cool.
This is the beginning end of Froggie. "The End, Froggie," is a family tradition that started in FHE about 4 years ago. Poison Dot was in kindergarten and each week he brought home a little booklet that he had made of the color song of the week. It was a way to teach the youngsters how to spell color words with the help of lyrics and familiar tunes.
For example, the song about brown was sung to the tune of "Bingo," and went like this:

There is a color we all know.
Can you guess what it is?
B-r-o-w-n, b-r-o-w-n, b-r-o-w-n,
That's how you spell brown.

Teddy bears and squirrels are brown.
Autumn leaves are too.
Chocolate candy's always brown.
Chocolate cake is always brown.
Chocolate milk is always brown.
I like brown don't you.

The last page of each booklet had a small cartoon frog under the words,"The End." Whenever we got to the last page at the end of the song we would all shout out, "The End, Froggie!" With such a fun way to punctuate, it was adopted to end other activities. At one point it was the signal to race to bed (clever way to get kids excited to go to bed, eh?)

Anyway, "The End, Froggie" is part of who we are as a family and we would like to share a little bit of this with you.

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