frog fun

Yesterday afternoon found us at our favorite children's museum, where the boys participated in a class with the fabulous Ms. Nicky called "Frog Fun", where they studied the life cycle and habits of frogs, including this pair of African Water Frogs that entertained the kids by eating fish and splashing a lot.

They also got to study tadpoles (that's Zoo Boy on the right). They saw both tiny tadpoles and little froglets who had recently grown their back legs. The kids tried to count up the tadpoles, but there were too many and they kept swimming around, making counting pretty much impossible.

The class gathers around Ms Nicky's desk, where she plays songs from various frog species for them. I never really thought about it before, but it's amazing how different each species sounds -- you truly don't have to see a frog to identify it, it's totally doable on a pitch black spring night!

After all the learning, the kids colored paper squares and made origami jumping frogs out of them. Here Zoo Boy works diligently alongside his classmates to color in his frog-to-be.





J, satisfied with his coloring, works on folding his frog into it's final form.

Fun class, the kids had a blast (so did I! And so did the Map Man, who was able to join us about half way through).