RSPB Wild Challenge

Some of the children were involved in helping to create a pond in the community garden as part of the RSPB Wild Challenge Award, which we have now been awarded our bronze award. When the pond was ready, we added frog spawn and pond weeds and waited patiently to see what would happen. We have been lucky enough to observe our frogspawn develop into tadpoles and we are now waiting for them to turn into frogs. The children have all had a chance to visit our pond in the community garden and observe the tadpoles swimming about in the water. There has been special plants put into the pond to provide a food source for the tadpoles, as well as the children having the opportunity to feed them special tadpole food by hand.  From this we have been discussing the life cycle of a frog which has developed an interest in other life cycles such as caterpillars. Now we also have caterpillars in the nursery and are hoping for some beautiful butterflies shortly.