I admit that the more experiences my children and I have with frogs and toads, the more we love them. This last week has been a goldmine of opporutnities to observe both. First, we visited my parents who have a beautiful garden pond. And it was simply alive with toads! We estimated that there must be at least 10 American Toads in this small garden pond along with Koi fish. We could hear them singing the entire day; it was such a fun experience!! I managed to take a few great photos and a very neat video of a toad singing. Here are the photos and videos from our day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, Alex finally caught a frog yesterday; frogs can be pretty hard to catch in comparison to the ease of catching toads. He came running into the house holding his prize; Alex was shaking with excitement. He caught a Green Frog; we have lots of those living in our creek.

 

 

 

 

 

Of course, both of these experiences have afforded lots of opportunities for learning as well, we've done several of the activities from our new NaturExplorers Frogs and Toads unit study e-book which will be officially released VERY soon!! Cindy and I are so very excited and cannot wait to share these awesome resources. I'm also super excited because the creation of these unit studies is going to make preparation for schooling for us so much more simple. I'm already enjoying the fruits of our labor on a personal level in using them.

Stay tuned, we both will be announcing their launch very soon!!!