This week we had another visitor in our school! We found a frog or toad near our door! Meet ‘Chris’!

We had a ‘who am I?’ internet research challenge to find out what species we had visiting us and some interesting facts about her/him.

We found out he was a… common tree frog! We named him Chris. Here are some of the facts we found.

Facts about Chris the common tree frog:
Full name: Chris Marf Shields
‘Ranidae’
Britain’s most common frog, also found in Europe. They are often found in garden ponds
Males grow to 9cm and females 13cm
Average weight: 22.7g
They eat algae, insects, snails, slugs and worms
They vary in colour from grey, brown, yellow and olive green. Limbs and backs have dark blotches
They breed at age of 2-3 years old
They are found in February to October
Common frogs hibernate through the winter, either at the bottom of ponds (breathing through their skin) or on land under refuges such as compost heaps

Chris did not like the noise in the playground so we carefully captured him and released him back into the wild!