COGNITIVE ACTIVITY BASED ASSESSMENT

Date: _________________________
Teacher: ______________________
Child’s Name: _________________________
Child’s Age: ____________________
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Detailed description of the activity, with photo:

The frogs are going to work! They each have a special job and they each need a certain number of frogs to
do that job! Get out a mix of the red, green, and yellow frogs. Each color of frog will have one leader who is
on the log on a certain number. Each frog will ask for a certain number of frogs to help them with their job
based on the number they are sitting on. Ages 3-5

Domain Domain Domain

Cognitive/Math Cognitive/Math Cognitive/Math
Skill: Skill: Skill:

Names Numerals to 5 Counts with objects to 10 (also Matches set of objects to

Rote Count) numeral

Presentation of materials: Presentation of materials: Presentation of materials:

Have a yellow frog sitting on Have the green frog hop in and sit Have the red frog hop in but not
number 5. on number 10 get on the log.

Prompt: Do/Say Prompt: Do/Say Prompt: Do/Say

“Yellow frog is in charge of fly
catching duty today! Yum! Do you
like to eat flies? Yeah me neither!
But frogs love them! To do this
job, Mr. yellow frog needs some
friends to help. So he is waiting on
“Mr. Green frog has the job of
moving all of the lily pads in the
pond. Wow! That sounds like a
really big job! How many friends
does he need to help him? (the
child will say ten or if they are not
Mr. red frog’s job is to sing a
lullaby to the baby tadpoles.
Awe! Do you like it when your
parents sing lullabies? Me too!
For this job Mr. Red needs three
friends! Where should he sit if he
his log for his friends. But oh my
goodness! What are those strange
markings on the log?” (point to
the number 1 on the log.
Hopefully the child will say they
are numbers) Oh yeah! Can you
help me read them? To find out
which number Mr. yellow frog is
on?” (Point to each number one at
a time and have the child say
them until they get to five.) Five!
Mr. Yellow must need 5 friends to
help! Can you help me find five
yellow friends? Thanks! Now they
have enough to do their job!
Child’s Response:
sure then you can help them and
say ten) That is a lot of friends!
Can you help me find and line up
ten friends? Great! Thank you!
Let’s count to make sure we have
all ten! (Then point to one frog in
the line at a time and lag behind
the child to have them lead the
count.)
Child’s Response:
needs three friends? Great! Now
his friend will know where to line
up. Can you line up the friends he
needs? (the child can line up
three frogs for Mr. Red)
Child’s Response: