Life at the Pond Highlighting experiences and insights in daily life at Frog Pond Early Learning Center

In small group, we took time to compare similar plants. We did a mini-center rotation, rather than small groups. There were three plant comparison stations: One comparing myrtle and honeysuckle. Next they compared mock strawberries and real strawberries. Finally, we had a station for eating strawber

The Tadpoles learned about wetlands this morning. They viewed pictures of animals and plants that are found in the Huntley Meadows wetlands and then they colored animals to make their own wetland book (a pond in this case). They had fun coloring the pictures, which they will put together in a book o

Today we found and observed many new creatures of different shapes and sizes! Hooray for the new life of spring! This morning we discovered two crickets in our classroom, one of them quite small. It had to have been a nymph, or smaller version of the adult. Then outdoors we found a ladybug larva. It

The weather was as close to perfect as could be  – Wow! It was so much fun playing outside with the Tadpoles. In small groups the children planted seedlings outside with Ms. Lora, and later with me. Then we watered the plants. That was fun. After they took turns helping me water the plants, I turned

Today we were excited to welcome the mother of one of our students. Ms. Cassandra, a veterinarian, taught us about what she does in her work. She brought several things to show us, such as preserved ticks, tapeworms, ringworms, and a plastic model of a dog’s heart with a heart worm. She came dressed

Continuing our study of water this month, during small group time in the Frog class one group learned about erosion with a model watershed. Science Sarah used modeling clay to create a slope on which they put dirt. Then they poured “rain” on it (water through a colander) and watched as the dirt flow

The Tadpoles enjoyed watching a video depicting the water cycle with classical music playing in the background. It was fun pointing out different parts of the video and asking them what they saw. They understand that the sun makes water go into the air and that the water in the air turns into clouds