Tots and Me... Growing Up Together: Littles Learning Link Up: March 19, 2019: Frog Life Cycle Poster

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Littles Learning Link Up: March 19, 2019: Frog Life Cycle Poster

Each month you will find:

A seasonal round-up (usually toward the beginning of the month)
Posts where I share what I have been up to with my early elementary children and the preschoolers I work with at our homeschool co-op (including occasional highlight posts where I share how we used ideas that have been linked up here on Littles Learning Link Up).

Each week, I will host a link up, where you can share either what you have been up to recently, or old posts that may go with the theme. Feel free to link up more than one post.

Each week I will continue to feature a couple of posts from those that have been linked up.

I hope you will continue to share your wonderful posts, and I hope you will find something new to try with your child(ren).

It would be great for everyone to stop by and visit the other linked-up posts as well. Check them out, leave some comments, pin those that interest you. Let's make this a real party and socialize with each other.

I decided it was time to move on to a new unit in our preschool co-op class. Originally I had wanted to do at least four hibernation lessons, as I had ended up with five Arctic animals lessons. Unfortunately, I ran out of brilliant ideas. At the beginning of the month, I figured with Spring coming, it would be a great time to have some lessons on metamorphosis. So, we quickly discussed how frogs will hibernate under the mud, but then moved on to the frog life cycle. I actually surprised myself though. Instead of just one lesson on frogs, it has grown into three. Last week I shared my Frog Metamorphosis/Life Cycle Fun Round Up. I actually used one of those creative ideas in our first class, and then another idea in last week's class. I will share more about that in my end of week lesson. Today I would like to focus on the Frog Life Cycle Poster we made.

I plan to continue to share my Pre-K unit posts on Fridays, even though it is on Tuesdays that I will be sharing the craft that we made.

Now, onto this week's craft!

Frog Life Cycle Poster

Here's what you will need:

Brown construction paper

Blue construction paper

Green construction paper

White construction paper

Glue sticks

Green marker

Q-tips

Green paint

Black paint

In preparation I taped two pieces of brown construction paper together for each poster. Then I cut the blue paper into ovals for the ponds. I got four ponds out of one sheet of construction paper by folding it into fourths. Then I cut little circles out of the white construction paper. About 1 inch for the frog eggs, and 1 1/2 inches for the frog eyes. I then cut green ovals, 1 large and 2 medium per frog. Finally, I cut out tadpole tails, front frog legs and back frog feet.

Before we started our craft, we read the book A Tadpole Grows Up by Pam Zollman.

We actually had our snack first, which was a frog life cycle snack, but I will be sharing that in the lesson post. Then, after gym, the children came down to work on their craft.

We started by gluing a pond to the top of the poster, then the children glued on five white circles in a bunch.

We used Q-tips to dab on black paint dots to represent the growing tadpoles in the eggs.

The next step was to glue on the next two ponds, on on the right and one on the bottom.

Then we added fingerprint bodies for the tadpoles and froglets. We set them aside to dry while we sang songs and read some books. Then we added the tails

We then built our adult frog. We glued the smaller ovals to the back of the big oval, then we glued that to the brown paper. We added the details: eyes, legs, and feet. We finished up by drawing legs on the froglets with markers.

And we gave the frogs big smiles.

Here are the finished posters:

Frog Life Cycle Poster

Let's take a look at that review schedule real quick:

A couple of weeks ago I shared my review of the U.S. Symbols Unit Study from Homeschool Complete. This week I will be posting my review of the STEM activities from Tied 2 Teaching, and next week I will share my review for Poetry for the Grammar Stage from Memoria Press.

In April I will be sharing reviews of CrossWired Science and Techie Homeschool Mom. Then in May I will share my review of Pathway to Liberty.

Here are a couple of things I would like to share with you:

Frog Metamorphosis/Life Cycle Fun Round Up

Springtime Fairy Round Up

Focusing on the Cross With 15 Jesus-Centered Books for Resurrection Sunday

Focusing on Jesus Resurrection Day Round Up

Now onto:

Littles Learning Link Up Features

On my last Littles Learning Link Up post, there were 9 wonderful posts linked up. I will be sharing a randomly selected post and the top clicked on posts.

Please, don't forget to stop by other posts that are linked up. See what catches your eye, stop by, pin the post to a relevant board, and perhaps leave a comment to let the author of the blog know you have been by for a visit. I know I appreciate others commenting and letting me know they have read my posts, so I am sure others do too.

This week's randomly selected post is:

Adelien from Blessed Learners shared FREE St. Patrick's Day Alphabet Flashcards.

And here are this week's most clicked-on posts:

Nicole from Mama of Many Blessings shared Green Goo Sensory Bin

Brandy from The Barefoot Mom shared 40 Nature Study Ideas

Join the Party!

I would love to have you join in this week! What sort of activities do you do with your young children? Do you have some favorite activities you would like to share? I invite you to link up below. I will be pinning posts on one of my relevant boards, and I would love to feature some of the activities each week from what is linked up.

Please know I may share a picture from your post and link back to it, along with sharing how we used your idea in our school time. By linking up you are giving me permission to use a picture from your post. I will ALWAYS give credit and link back. Additionally, if you choose to try out any of the ideas with your child, please make sure you give credit where credit is due.

Linky will be open through Monday night, to give me time to check out all the posts and get the Features organized. Please take the time to visit some of the other wonderful posts linked up.

No button currently, and there won't be one until I can figure it out seeing as Photobucket has changed things. Feel free to still share the picture in place of the button. Just link it to my Littles Learning Link Up permalink please.