Little Tommy Tadpole began to weep and wail,
For little Tommy Tadpole had lost his little tail,
And his mother didn’t know him, as he wept upon the log;
For he wasn’t Tommy Tadpole, but Mr Tommy Frog.
For little Tommy Tadpole had lost his little tail,
And his mother didn’t know him, as he wept upon the log;
For he wasn’t Tommy Tadpole, but Mr Tommy Frog.
Earlier this year, we had studied the life cycle of a frog. Well, much to our excitement, all the rain recently meant that ponds and creeks rose, along with the likelihood of catching some tadpoles.
We have three tadpoles, happily swimming about in a tupperware container, at the moment. A search online has successfully given us information on how to keep tadpoles through the Victorian Frog Group and more information found here on Raising Tadpoles in Containers. We have frozen some lettuce for them, so will discard these fresher pieces (in the photo) with the frozen food when it's ready.
I also managed to find some free blackline masters on Creek Ecosystems HERE. This is tying in so well with the "Digital Frog" wetlands kit I reviewed earlier. We've had a few fun nature study things happening this week! ☺
4 comments:
Cool! I didn't realise that oh, so familiar rhyme was by C.J.
Thanks for your comment. You have a good weekend as well.
We have a tadpole in our backyard too and we think he holds the record for the longest living tadpole as we've had him for more than 6 months and he has just sprouted legs:)
Six months IS a long time, but then I think I remember reading that the metamorphis time depends on temperature. Maybe you'll have a frog singing soon now that summer's on it's way? :)
oh ok, that makes sense as it's been out in the backyard all winter long:)
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