After learning about bats yesterday, today we turned our attention to frogs. We have a big leopard frog in our dissection box. It is a male because the tympanum is large. It was helpful seeing it on a real frog instead of just in pictures. Something else I enjoyed was hearing the different calls of frogs. I was mostly interested in the leopard frog because that was the kind of frog that we had in our dissection kit. The sounds of southern leopard frogs are a lot like a cackling laugh. It made me laugh to hear them. I attached a sound file to my e-notebook page. When my e-notebook is finished and I publish it as an e-notebook, it will play.

Here is my e-notebook page on frogs that mom helped me with. Just click the thumbnail to see it bigger.

Even though we have moved on to frogs, I am still enjoying bats. Today I wrapped myself up in a sheet for wings and played I was a bat. I saw how baby bats cuddled up with their mommies, so I liked getting into Mommy's lap today with my baby bat wings all tucked up around me. I also parcticed making bat noises to do echolocation. It was fun.

For my e-notebook for Sound I watched an episode of Magic School Bus and we did a sound lab. Both showed me how sound is vibration. Here is my e-notebook page on today's activities. Just click the thumbnail to see it full sized.

This morning we discovered a bat on our porch. One of the cats got him. Probably Oreo because she is a very good hunter. Finding the bat was great because one of the things we are studying is animal hearing. For bats hearing is very important. Without their good sense of hearing, bats would crash into everything at night. Read my e-notebook entry that mom helped me with to learn more about our 'batty' day. Just click on the thumnail below to see it full sized.