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Frogs on a log!

In preschool, we’ve been working on increasing our knowledge about NZ frogs. We were fortunate enough to watch the frog metamorphosis. After our tadpoles turned into frogs, children enjoyed making a “Frog Terrarium”, by placing big rocks and logs inside the tank. Without a doubt, our frogs loved the terrarium we made and here is the proof.

our frog's kingdom

We were very excited to see our frog jumping in our preschool. He enjoyed looking at all the things we got in the room and he was very happy to get the attention from his human friends.

digital fun!

Digital microscopes are fun! Children are naturally curious and digital microscopes allow the children to explore their world- a world they cannot see!


The best part of digital microscopes is that you can set your imagination free and can create more than 200 times the original size of anything you look at. This Digital Microscope will help in creating and capturing images, and also it can record videos and images in your computer. It is fun to learn the procedure and ordinary images can be turned into the astonishing ones. The digital microscopes are perfect for early childhood settings to satisfy young curious minds. These microscopes also allow teachers to plan engaging, stimulating and unique learning opportunities.

Our preschool turned into a big scientific laboratory when Nikita set up the Digital microscope. The children were very excited to see this piece of equipment magnifying the little things. They brought in interesting objects like leaves, small florets, plastic bugs to view them enlarged with clear detail. The children explored the items of their interest and were amazed (exploration 2:3). We encouraged the children to bring dead insects to explore their body parts and also minute interesting objects for further learning.

Emelia's pets

Emelia brought in her two pet frogs from home to show everyone in preschool. The children were very excited to see them as these frogs are from the tadpoles we had last summer. They were very happy to meet their old friends and explored the frogs thoroughly. The children in the transition group learnt many things about Green Golden Bell frogs. They learnt that these frogs are introduced from Australia and are allowed to keep them as pets, but not the native frogs of NZ. We also learnt about other introduced frogs such as Southern Bells and Brown Tree Frogs by searching the internet. It was a great learning experience for the children in the transition group (Contribution 2:3).

Introduced frogs of Nz

Native frogs of NZ

New Zealand Frogs

We learnt a lot about native frogs of NZ and also introduced frogs of NZ.

The Preschool do the Haka!

Today the preschool children were practising the Haka! They all put on their best game faces and did so well...Maybe we have some future All Blacks in our midst!