Tadpoles!

Brenna and I are now the proud owners of about 30 tadpoles! My Mom and Dad have a nice pond in their front yard and every once in a while a frog will decide to litter it with eggs and then Dad is overwhelmed with hundreds of tadpoles. This time Brenna and I decided to 'save' some of them (most don't survive the doom of Dad's big net!) and raise them until they metamorphose into tiny frogs, and then of course we will release them into the yard. What am I going to do with 30 frogs!!?? :)
So this is officially our first science lesson about frogs and their metamorphosis. I will have to come up with some kind of chart or maybe even keep a daily journal that Brenna can dictate to me about about the changes they make. I have already looked up and printed some things off the Internet about taking care of tadpoles and it seems pretty simple. Right now we have them all in one container but since there are so many I will have to separate them into two or they will start to eat each other! Once they get all four of their legs you transfer them to another container that has rocks they can climb onto. And when their tail is gone that is when you release them. They eat all sorts of things too - fishfood, flies (time to clean my window sills! haha), and the best thing they say to feed them is lettuce. Who would have thought!

Brenna is so excited and says that she is their new Mommy. I reminded her today that we are not going to be able to keep them when they become frogs and she nodded and said that she knew. So we'll see when the time comes. Right now they are in her room on her dresser. She will be in charge of feeding them and help me change the water when needed as well. I will post pictures as they change. I think this is going to be a pretty cool project!