1st - Frogs (and toad and newt and salamader and caecillian)

It was an All-Amphibian Friday as the first grade had their first opportunity to use our microviewers.

Ask your first grader what is special about the amphibian family. (They undergo metamorphosis and spend their juvenile period in the water and their adult life on land).

The viewers allowed us a close up view of all the stages of frog development. We noticed stages such as egg, embryo, tadpole, froglet and frog.

The students drew the egg, tadpole and frog stages.

We built a giant "word wall" about amphibians and frogs and then the students selected two ideas to write about following our discussion.

Ribbit!