After learning about bats yesterday, today we turned our attention to frogs. We have a big leopard frog in our dissection box. It is a male because the tympanum is large. It was helpful seeing it on a real frog instead of just in pictures. Something else I enjoyed was hearing the different calls of frogs. I was mostly interested in the leopard frog because that was the kind of frog that we had in our dissection kit. The sounds of southern leopard frogs are a lot like a cackling laugh. It made me laugh to hear them. I attached a sound file to my e-notebook page. When my e-notebook is finished and I publish it as an e-notebook, it will play.

Here is my e-notebook page on frogs that mom helped me with. Just click the thumbnail to see it bigger.

Even though we have moved on to frogs, I am still enjoying bats. Today I wrapped myself up in a sheet for wings and played I was a bat. I saw how baby bats cuddled up with their mommies, so I liked getting into Mommy's lap today with my baby bat wings all tucked up around me. I also parcticed making bat noises to do echolocation. It was fun.