Leap Frog Day...aka.. Frog Awareness day!

As Gill and I knew that the last week in February was Frog Awareness Week, we planned our class reader and activities around this theme.



Josh brought an article from the daily News that explained all about frog awareness week and Leap Frog Day. Who would have thought that frogs, especially the small tree frogs are becoming an endangered species.

We were are so fortunate that Connor in grade two has a wonderful garden at home full of tadpoles and frogs. 

His mom and dad are very knowledgeable on permiculture and have created a garden that supports this ideology.

Gill arranged for us to visit their home on Friday, they very kindly agreed to host 38 excited children, so off we set. We did not let on where we were going, so both Gill and I could not wait to see Conners reaction when we arrived at his home! We were not disappointed at all! He was so excited, he said "I am at home, but at school...so cool!"

Jo and her husband started off by explaining the term Biodiversity...a difficult concept to explain to 7 year olds!

Then it was time to look for the tadpoles and frogs... everyone was so excited!

Such a big area to explore!

Natalie found one with legs!

How many have you found?

Blake loved searching for tadpoles.

Jo had a large collection of recycled
containers that came in so handy for
catching tadpoles!

What a lot we got!

Elijah found the most!

Lunch on the lawn, in front of Jo's "Food Forest"

Jo showing the children another spot
where the frogs like to hide.

Kamira enjoyed holding the frogs
they caught!

Jo, explaining all about her "Food Forest",
not an inch of space is wasted. All different
fruit and vegetables grow together

Jenna listens carefully.

Samaira smelling the Lavender.

This plant helps to chase away the bugs.

It smells awful!!

pink bananas..who knew?

We had a wonderful morning, there was so much to learn. Thank you Jo for hosting us and best of all for letting us take some tadpoles back to school so that we can watch them grow.