Pigeon Valley "Frog Outing"

As our theme on books is coming to and end, we planned a fun outing to Pigeon Valley to correspond with our last book, 'The Wide Mouthed frog."

Gill and I told the parents about the outing and gave them a brief of providing a "frog lunch". Wow some parents really outdid themselves! Thank you so much!

Aarivs mom supplied us a 'fly and spider' cake. Mikhaeels mom sent him to school with a frog face and his frog lunch all packaged in a frog packet.

What was inside the packet - all clearly labeled!

Caleb had bugs and things crawling all around
his froggy lunch.

There were all sorts of bugs and things in things packed in lunch boxes. As you can see by the pictures, a fantastic effort all round.

Froggy cupcakes,complete with a
delicious juicy worm, as well as froggy
sandwiches brought by Alka.

Keshav and his moth sandwich - perfect frog food and Rhea
with all sorts of froggy goodies.

Baby frogs for Senthen to eat.

Aruna had some more frogs eggs

Jaden and his frog cake!

Okuhle and her frogs eggs 

Anyone for frogalicious pizza?
 says Aariv.

After the excitement of looking at each our frog lunches, we showed the grade 2's a Life Cycle of a frog PowerPoint presentation. Then our combined classes were divided into groups. Each group had to choose a name for themselves. By now the children could hardly contain themselves. So, armed with lunch and containers to catch tadpoles we set off on the bus to Pigeon Valley.

 First we had our picnic lunch then each group was sent off to a different station for an activity. We rotated after 5 minutes until every group had completed each one. Mrs Sweet, read a froggy story, Shelly was at the pond where she pointed out the tadpoles and other aspects of the mini- ecosystem. Mrs Rayner did some "frog sports" like leap frog and hopping. Aarivs mom played eye-spy and I took groups on a nature walk. We had great fun, even though it was a hot and sticky day.

Mrs Dowlath with one of the groups.

bug hunting on the nature walk

pond activities with Shelly.

Story time with Mrs Sweet.

leapfrog with Mrs Rayner

 The last activity, one which all children had waited for the whole morning...tadpole catching! (sorry moms!)

 We returned to school, with very excited children who wanted to show their tadpoles to the rest of the school. We ended of a lovely morning with some delicious spider and fly cake!