New home for the tadpoles

Our tadpoles got a new home yesterday (thanks Teacher!) and new pond water (thanks Kay!)  They look very happy in their new home, and we can see them swimming round because the side of their home is transparent.

Bigger, fatter tadpoles

Growing tadpoles

Monday, March 14th, 2011

Our tadpoles have really grown.  They are swimming around their small pond (a big bucket) with nice long tails.

Frogspawn turning into tadpoles

Monday, March 7th, 2011
Most of the little black dots of the frog spawn have changed shape.  They are now long and thin, instead of being like a sphere.  Some of them have turned into proper tadpoles and are swimming around with their long tails.

Frogspawn in Senior infants

Last year we grew frogs from tadpoles.  Check out our progress on:
http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-happened-to-froggy-our-classroom.html  This year we are hoping that some frogspawn will turn into frogs before our eyes.  Keep an eye on this site to see what happens.

Wednesday, 2nd March 2011
We have a bucket of Frogspawn in our classroom.  Last year Senior infants in Room 5 got 3 tadpoles and managed to raise a frog (which was taken safely back to the pond from which he came).  This year we are going to try again to raise frogs.  Our frogspawn looks healthy now.  One piece of frogspawn has already turned into a tadpole.  We wonder if he will be our first frog?