Frogs and Democracy
/Today, friends were greeted with an invitation to take a closer look at the African Dwarf frogs who live in the aquarium in the classroom.
We all had the opportunity to create frog art (or anything else) with watercolors, markers, and crayons. We found a new “frog pond” sensory bin with wide flat rocks, mossy rocks and sticks, ferns, leaves, water, and forest animals that we might encounter in a Pacific NW frog habitat. We also listed to frog croaking and “singing” in the sensory bin area.
And we learned a few facts about African Dwarf frogs. The most exciting fact: The some African Dwarf frogs originate from Cameroon! So at circle today, Phebe presented us with four possible Cameroonian names we might name our frogs:
Ambe
Zitaa
Penn
Mulu
In the spirit of democracy and after a chat about what voting means, we voted (by raising our hands) on which names we liked best. So far we have two votes for Ambe and three votes for Zitaa (some friends abstained). We’ll continue to present and vote on the frogs names this week.
Finally, we ended with a bit of frog (and crab, koala, and tree) yoga.
