Reception Learn about the Lifecycle of a Frog.

Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 9:22pm

During our spring walk the children noticed some frogspawn in our school pond.  We took a small amount of frogspawn back to the classroom to observe what was happening.  The children enjoyed using the magnifying glasses to look closely at the frogspawn and used a range of new vocabulary to desrcibe what they could see. During our oracy session we introduced some new vocabularly and practiced projecting our voices when saying the words.  We looked at some different images and watch some short video clips and discusses as a class what we could see and what we thought was happening in the pictures.  The children practised using the a range of different sentence starters  and expanding their sentences using because.  The children used our signals for agree, build and challenge to beging to have a discussion with their peers.

"I think the frog is laying its eggs" Lily-Mae

"I agree with Lilly-Mae.  IT's calle frogspawn" Lilah

"Next the tadpoles nibble a hole and swim in the pond" Freyja

"They get front and back legs" Rosie

"It's called a froglet because it has a long tail" Dennis.

The children then worked indentedently to correctly order the pictures in the lifecycle and label the pictures with the correct vocabulary.  Some of the children even chose to paint a picture of the frog in the pond.  Come and have a look at our learning.