We have discovered three collective nouns for frogs;

a knot of frogs - an army of frogs – a colony of frogs

The language that is collective nouns is so interesting and you don’t need to be a child to enjoy learning new language !  And you don’t need to be a child to enjoying learning about tadpoles either.

They have created a real buzz around kinder leading to a multitude of questions and creating great excitement, not only from our students but their parents and carers as well. So in order to better understand exactly what is going on we have been exploring a lovely book with the children called “GrowingFrogs” by Vivian French.

It is a great story about metamorphosis which follows the life cycle of a frog right through from frog spawn to frog.

The lovely illustrations have captured the children’s imaginations and they burst into kinder each day to check to see if the taddies in our tank are changing like those in the book.

Ours is a giant sized book with giant sized pictures …

… and  it’s an exciting way for them to see what will soon be happening to our tadpoles, (fingers crossed!)

The opening page reads; “Once, when I was little, my mum read me a story about a frog that drank and drank, and grew bigger and bigger and bigger“.

Several of the children got very excited by this.

“It’s Tiddalick!  She must have read the story of Tiddalick“.

‘TIDDALICK The frog who caused a flood’ written by Robert Roennfeldt is another great frog story the children have enjoyed hearing.

We have a good selection of frog books which the children can access from our library shelves and many of the children are enjoying pulling them out to look at.

Some of our other favourites include; ‘Green Air‘ by  Jill Morris, ‘The Wide-Mouthed Frog‘ by Keith Faulkner, ’The most colourful frog in the world‘ by Julie Morris and  ’Picasso, the green tree frog by Amanda Graham.