F is for Frog

Frogs are always a fun subject. Huyler was disappointed that we didn’t dissect a frog. (I’m saving that for Junior High years at least!) Instead we studied about the life cycle of a frog. Eggs, tadpoles, froglets and frogs. We learned about different kinds of frogs, like poison dart frogs, goliath frogs, bullfrogs, dwarf frogs and tree frogs. We learned how they eat with long, sticky tongues, how they breathe through their mouth and through their skin. We learned that they have to stay damp to be able to breathe through their skin. We learned about their diet of bugs and minnows. We learned about the different sounds that different frogs make, from chirping to croaking, and how this attracts a mate for the frogs. We found some funny frog jokes (see the back page). And we wrote a story book. We modeled it from the old classic “Over In The Meadow”. But ours is called “Over In The Pond”. We had to come up with pond animals and rhymes that would fit and still be sort of accurate about the various animals. It took us a whole school day just to do five! Here is a slide show of it.

We also made our own “FROG FACT BOOKS” where we illustrated several facts we had learned about frogs.

Our lesson to learn from frogs is to use our tongues wisely. Just as a frog waits until the exact right moment to snap up bugs, we should wait and consider how to use our tongues the best we can.