MsE's nature class is avoiding their usual hang out near the Jungle Fowl at the park.

Jungle Fowl are birds similar to wild chickens. We're supposed to avoid wildlife, birds and chickens with the novel corona virus going around. It means the group is adventuring out to some very interesting areas in the park.

Last week, they headed to the frog pond. The took nets and buckets and caught tadpoles. Their instructor even caught a frog that all the kids were able to see up close. I hope they get to go back and see the tadpoles getting bigger. I was intrigued that there are tadpoles in February. But then again I saw baby chicks in January.

"These are lily pads. I even saw a flower on the pond and it was called a lily."
"That's a frog. The teacher caught it. We didn't want to let it go."
"I caught a tadpole."
"I'm holding a butterfly net. I'm waiting to catch something."

We headed home ourselves and spent the afternoon learning about the frog life cycle. Then the kids made books in PowerPoint about what they had learnt.

MsC recalled the Frog Spawn (fertilized eggs) we had found in the pond at our house in Canada, and we explored our photos until we found them. That prompted a book about our backyard pond for her that she's eager to share with her friends.

For MsE I took the photos the instructor had shared of the day. MsE dictated to me what they did that day, and gave me a caption for each photo. We bound it together and it is so cute.

MsE's book ends with:

"First a frog is inside an egg. Then it's a tadpole. After it has gills and it's called a froglet. When it grows up, it will be a frog.
Keep learning about frogs and then you'll know more about them.
Bye for today."