Let’s Study Metamorphosis – Day 16 – Frogs and Paul McCartney!

I just discovered this song. Maybe the rest of you have always known about this song, but it’s brand new to me, and we love it. “We All Stand Together” by Paul McCartney from 1984. This video is called, “Rupert and the Frog”. I’ve never heard of any of it, but it’s all over YouTube, so obviously lots of other people have known about it for a long time. I listened to it last night, and my littles wanted to watch it over and over again. I turned it on today, and they came running. So here it is for you to enjoy as we envision together what our tadpoles will look and sound like (wouldn’t that be cool!) in a few more weeks.

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One of our tadpoles has one front leg! Only one, but nonetheless, it is a FRONT leg. He is becoming a frog! A little bit at a time. I was amazed to see this leg as I was watching them, and I looked for one on the other side, but there was none.

There’s our excitement for the day!

I’m still pondering how to find a big rock and fit it into our aquarium. They are spending lots of time on top of the lettuce, so I think they need something to climb up on out of the water to breathe some air. I’m not sure how the gill to lung transition works.

I’ve been doing quite a bit of research about frogs and toads. I found out that there aren’t any Red Frogs in Texas, so I’m still not sure what kind of frogs they will be. But I found a website that lists and shows pictures of all the frogs in Texas and where they can be found. So as they develop, I should be able to figure out what kind of frogs they are.

Let’s Study Metamorphosis – Day 13

I learned a lot from this video.

The spirals on their tummies are their intestines. Why didn’t I think of that?

They like fish food, so I guess I’ll get them some of that.

His tadpoles look like ours, so I guess that ours will become Red Frogs, too.

Okay, I couldn’t resist putting this song on my blog when I’m talking about Tadpoles turning into Frogs.

I have lots of posts about Caterpillars turning into Butterflies from the last two years, and now we have tadpoles, so I simply must post the song “Bullfrogs and Butterflies”.

I love that song. I learned it when I was doing puppets at church a long, long time ago, and I still love the song.

It’s such a perfect fit for what I’m trying to teach my children about Metamorphosis…

Well, here it is:

I took a few pictures today, but there’s nothing really new to report. At least three of the tadpoles have back legs growing, but a couple of them don’t even have leg nubs yet.

I’m figuring out how to set up another aquarium that has land and water together. We will have to get a tall structure or some big rocks and have an area of shallow water in the same place. I don’t want any of them to drown as they change to breathing with lungs!

Let’s Study Metamorphosis – Day 12

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Katie is petting a tadpole! She very gently puts her finger in the water and touches them on the back and pets them.

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Frog eye

Tadpole Antics

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They love the new sea grass Anna got for them from the lake. She couldn’t find much moss though. 🙁 We may have to go to the pet store and buy some algae there.

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Legs!

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This must be a little brother. He still only has leg nubs instead of legs.

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Leg

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Snail that came with the moss. And a nice little frog leg.

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Our tadpoles have little gold flecks on them, especially on their tummies. I really wonder what kind of frog these tadpoles will become.

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Frog Body, Eyes and Legs

I told Patrick that these tadpoles are night owls, and he responded that it makes sense, because so are frogs. Oh yeah…