Last week the rainbow bubble children had the excitement of finding lots of frogs hopping about in our garden.  Our brave frog whisperer, Debbie introduced them to our new pond, very cleverly built by Eric, and very quickly there was a lot of croaking and  froggy fighting over the lady frogs.

We came in to nursery this morning to find a large amount of frogs spawn.  The children (and the staff if the truth be told) were super excited.  We’ve been reading books about frogs and doing frog lifecycle jigsaws – frogmania has begun.

It is quite special to watch our children leaning over the pond and having an eye-to-eye chat with a wee frog.  The frogs seem to enjoy it too – they swim up and pop their heads out of the water as if they are saying hello.  Over the next couple of months we will be watching the pond carefully and learning all about the development from spawn, to tadpoles and hopefully into wee froglets.

We are really lucky to have such a beautiful outdoor area which is so full of wildlife. Will post the photos tomorrow!