Pharaoh could not stand the frogs and agreed to let the Israelites go. As we know from history, God hardened the heart of Pharaoh and Pharaoh did not do as he said he would. This made it possible for even more of God's power to be shown. Interestingly, the Egyptians worshiped frogs to an extent. They believed in Heqt, a goddess of fertility. She had the boy of a woman and the head of a frog. Heqt could do nothing about this "over population" of frogs in the land of Egypt. God is greater than all gods!
Today we learned that frogs too are beneficial to mankind.
They eat lots of harmful insects and are a part of our food chain.
Frog legs anyone????
Here are the paragraphs the kids wrote about the life cycle of a frog.
Heidi wrote~
There are six stages in the life cycle of the frog. First, the female adult frog lays the eggs. In the aftermath, tadpoles hatch out of their eggs and breathe with gills. Suddenly, the tadpoles lose their gills and grow lungs which enable them to breathe. Lickety-split, the tadpoles grow their back legs. One day soon, the tadpoles will lose their tails and grow front legs. Finally, the tadpoles change into adult frogs which spend most of their time on land. These are the six amazing and wonderful stages in the life cycle of the frog.
John Ross wrote~
Before becoming an adult frog that we are all very familiar with, a frog must pass through the tadpole stage. Frogs, being oviparous, lay their eggs and oftentimes desert them. The eggs will then hatch in the water and the beings that come out of them are called tadpoles. First, the tadpoles exist without lungs and roam freely around the water with gills. In certain period of time, the tadpoles will lose their gills and develop lungs forcing them to rise to the surface for air. Next, the tadpoles begin to grow hind legs and start looking more like frogs. Penultimately, they grow front legs and familiarize themselves with leaping in the water. Lastly, the frogs lose their tails and will soon rise to the surface of the water. After this, the cycle will have come full circle. This cycle of the frog is only the tiniest fraction of God's incredible creation.
The life and times of the McCullochs WEAVING in NM.
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life, you will have been all of these." George Washington
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Kirsten