{"id":347,"date":"2016-03-15T21:43:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T21:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reception15.minchacademy.net\/?p=347"},"modified":"2022-01-20T09:14:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T09:14:13","slug":"frogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/2016\/03\/15\/frogs\/","title":{"rendered":"FROGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aqua Class had a busy week last week learning all about frogs. We visited the pond and were surprised to find lots and lots of frogspawn and when we kept really still, we saw lots of frogs swimming about in the water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reception15.minchacademy.net\/2016\/03\/15\/frogs\/img_4353\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-354\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-354\" src=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/IMG_4353-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4353\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/IMG_4353-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/IMG_4353-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/IMG_4353.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We carefully collected some frogspawn and looked closely at the eggs and drew or painted what we could see. We also wrote some independent sentences too.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-347 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_164955.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_164955-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_164955-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_164955-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_164955.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160308_172410.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160308_172410-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160308_172410-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160308_172410-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160308_172410.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160308_172318.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160308_172318-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160308_172318-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160308_172318-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160308_172318.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Throughout the week we watched the frogspawn closely, looking for changes and we noticed that the full stops inside the eggs were turning into commas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reception15.minchacademy.net\/2016\/03\/15\/frogs\/20160311_153152\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-353\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-353 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160311_153152-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"20160311_153152\" width=\"414\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160311_153152-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160311_153152-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160311_153152.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 414px) 85vw, 414px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We learn about the life cycle of a frog..<\/p>\n<p>First the frog lays eggs in the pond.<\/p>\n<p>Next, the eggs hatch into tadpoles.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-347 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160308_172508.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160308_172508-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160308_172508-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160308_172508-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160308_172508.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_165200.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_165200-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_165200-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_165200-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_165200.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_165653.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_165653-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_165653-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_165653-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_165653.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_172158.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_172158-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_172158-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_172158-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_172158.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Then the tadpoles grow two back legs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reception15.minchacademy.net\/2016\/03\/15\/frogs\/20160309_172144\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-359\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-359\" src=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_172144-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"20160309_172144\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_172144-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_172144-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_172144.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After that the tadpole grows two more legs and becomes a froglet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reception15.minchacademy.net\/2016\/03\/15\/frogs\/20160309_172339\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-360\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_172339-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"20160309_172339\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_172339-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_172339-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_172339.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, the froglet loses its tail and becomes a frog.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-347 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160308_172328.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160308_172328-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160308_172328-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160308_172328-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160308_172328.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_165732.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_165732-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_165732-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_165732-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/20160309_165732.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>We drew, painted with poster paints and water colours and even made frogs out of plasticine.<\/p>\n<p>We went to the library to find out more information about frogs.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know. a group of frogs is called an army.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know, tadpoles breathe through gills on the sides of their heads and frogs breathe using lungs.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that\u00a0only male frogs croak.<\/p>\n<p>What a wonderful week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aqua Class had a busy week last week learning all about frogs. We visited the pond and were surprised to find lots and lots of frogspawn and when we kept really still, we saw lots of frogs swimming about in the water. We carefully collected some frogspawn and looked closely at the eggs and drew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/2016\/03\/15\/frogs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FROGS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}