I found the videos online - like youtube clips from national geographic and stuff, and one that was even on Netflix. I also borrowed some short cartoons from the library. I spread out about 1-2 videos each day to help break up the monotony of reading, lectures, and homework and keep the day flowing. I also borrowed about 20 books from the library (no joke) that had frogs as a subject. Only 3 were actually informative books, and I used those for teaching about the frogs, their life cycle, and their environment. The rest of the books were purely for fun, so the girls could get attached to their new animal friend and want to learn more.
On Day 2, I got the girls to create a craft based on the life cycle of the frog. We had read "Tale of a Tadpole" on Day 1, so I wanted to see how much they remembered and get them to do something fun too and make it all stick a bit more.
Although Bryan was away for 3 wks in Yakama doing some sort of training where you simultaneously do nothing, yet are worked so hard you are exhausted, he was able to be home one day during our frog week because of a class (his, not ours). On Day 3 he took the girls out to the pond by our house and went tadpole hunting, but we didn't find any tadpoles - they've already all turned into frogs I guess. They did manage to find a frog though.
Bryan was a great help, he talked to the girls all about frogs and their camouflage! He compared his gear and the frogs skin, and said how both of them help them hide from things and keep them safe.
All the girls wanted a chance to hold the frog of course, but none wanted to give him a kiss and see if anything would happen. ;) lol
Finally we let the poor thing go back in the little creek next to the pond and watched him swim a bit.
On Day 4 I found, printed, and put together this frog book. I don't remember which blog I found it on now... I'll have to pay better attention and start adding links to my resources, sorry, this post is kinda after the fact and on the fly. I read my little book to them and showed them how I colored in the different parts of the frog that each page talked about. On Day 5 I had Abbagail & Serenity each color their own frog book to see if they remembered the names of each body part. They did really well!
This is one thing I did not know about frogs before dong these lessons! |
So that was frog week. Fast, fun, and best of all - it was completely free!
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