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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Fantastic Frogs!

Little Bro is head over heals in love with his new “pets”…two of the largest tadpoles I’ve ever seen!  Little Bro and his pets After sending off the order form for the tadpoles weeks ago, we began the very long

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wait for their arrival.  I was on pins and needles when the box arrived that they when I opened the box the tadpoles would still be alive and well.   And they were.

While waiting for the 6 lb tadpoles(or so it seems) to arrive, we began our theme unit study of frogs with the introduction of a new homeschool project I’ve learned called a “lapbook.”  It is essentially a file folder that when opened reveals a book of child-made items that helps him to learn the topic.

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Little Bro really loved working on this!  Each day we would complete another part of the lapbook together.  I love his drawing above of the tadpole and the frog above.  He copied it from a book we read and I thought his rendition at the age of 3 was quite nice.  Some of the frog activities during our unit study include:  sequencing the life cycle of the frog, matching various frogs, rereading books to me, made a paper plate frog with popsicle stick tongue, even Big Bro made an origami frog for Little Bro. 

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Sequencing the frog life cycle

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Rereading some of our frog books

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Play-doh life cycle creations

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Just today our tadpole started to grow tiny legs.  We are all excited to see them become froglets!  More to come…

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