These kids have spent hours and hours catching tadpoles, watching tadpoles, torturing tadpoles, carrying tadpoles in buckets and nets and cupped hands. They have been the perfect outdoor pet - ha! The apartment complex supplies the pond, all I have to do is the extra laundry that results from all the accidental dips in the water :)
And then yesterday I finally agreed to let some of the precious tadpoles become indoor pets. Each tadpole bucket has one with no legs, one with only back legs, and one with front and back legs. This morning we noticed that one of our front and back legged tadpoles was even perching on a rock to breath air, and then disappearing back under the rocky habitat the kids designed for him.
[I quickly informed everyone that every tadpole that jumped out of his bucket was evicted immediately, it's "back to the pond you go, buddy".]
Isn't that cool? This guy looks exactly like the fourth picture in the "stages of metamorphosis" charts in one of our science books!
Yesterday was absolutely gorgeous, one of those beautiful spring days where you think you could stay outside forever, and then you do :)
4 comments:
I knew you all would get a pet
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Granddaddy
We had those same pets as children too - what a fun way to learn about science. We love you!
That's so cool! What a fun way to have a pet.
So fun! my kids love this song "amphibians" one of our chinese friends introduced us to it and it's pretty chinesey. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti0HDtRY8u4 EA
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