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Have you seen any frogspawn?
Frogspawn can be found in ponds and shallow ditches from early spring. Keep your eyes open! Our Frogs Home Learning Pack can help you to learn all about how frogs grow. Start by reading our fact sheets. These are suitable for more confident readers to tackle by themselves, but ideal for teachers/parents to share with their children. Blow them up large and use for guided reading!
Linking English to science learning is a great motivator to children to want to learn to read!
What is in our Frog's Lifecycle Pack?
Further activities:Make a frog life-cycle book/chart
Make a simple little book from 3 pieces of A4 paper. Fold them in half. Draw a really good front cover and give your book a title. Cut out our pictures from the Life-cycle of a Frog sheet in our FREE pack. Stick one stage of the life-cycle on each page and write a little bit to describe what is happening.
If you can staple your book together, that is best, if not an adult could carefully stitch it for you with a bit of cotton thread. Or you could just make a Frog's Life-cycle Chart on a sheet of A4 paper. Decorate it beautifully!
This is a great book for pre-schoolers!
Keep a frogspawn diary
If you find frogspawn, visit it regularly and note the changes that take place - see the cycle in our chart above. You could write your observations down in a nature diary.
Make a saltdough frog!
Find the instructions in the pack!
Read our FREE reading book
Our Frogs Easy Reading book can be downloaded for FREE from TES.
Written in a clear, easy to read font, for children who are beginning to enjoy more challenging texts. Make a pond for wildlife Even a simple garden pond may have frogspawn laid in it - maybe not this year, but in the future. However, many small creatures would also benefit from a small pond in your garden. Birds need water to drink, and frogs need a means of keeping their skin damp and somewhere to lay their eggs. Small creatures, like mice may also enjoy a drink.
A simple pond can be made from a washing up bowl.
1) Dig a whole big enough for the bowl to sit in, so that its rim is level with the ground around. 2) Sit the bowl in the hole and place a large rock in the bottom for wildlife to be able to get out easily. 3) Fill with water - preferably rain water, or water from a water butt. 4) Ideally you would want some pond weed, if you can get some anywhere.
We hope you have enjoyed learning about frogs. There is so much to discover in this wonderful world of ours.
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