I love doing our pond learning unit during late may/early june. Things really start getting hotter here in Kansas and more and more creatures start appearing. Beans has a grandmother with a huge pond as well, so it's always nice to learn about the cool things we see at grandma's house!
Beans has really enjoyed learning about frog life cycles and all the animals that live in the ponds. So here are some of our pond activities, in no particular order:
Here's our pond display! I love how it turned out. The model of a frog was my mom's from when she was homeschooling me and my sister. There are also some frog counting cards that I laminated so Beans could practice writing her numbers with a dry erase marker.
This is a really cute letter matching game. The letters are upper and lower case so it works for a lot of different age groups. It can be found, along with the number tracing cards we used, at Stories Begin At Home.
Frog/pond slime! This held her attention for quite a while, she loves slime. I bought a frog life cycle toy set and a set of Safari LTD river animals. I could not find any other pond ones and many of the river animals worked for our pond study.
This was our only pond art that I managed to capture! I cut lily pads out of sticky foam and willow added them and did the rest (I drew that very round frog).
Towards the end of the unit, we took a family hike through some lovely forest trails to this super cool pond. It was beautiful and we saw frogs, turtles, dragonflies, and a snake.
Other than these things, we also did green pond playdoh, pond life flashcards, frogs in a mini pond with large tapioca pearls for the eggs, and checked out a ton of books on pond life from our library.
Do you learn about ponds in your family's nature study? I hope some of these ideas are helpful to you. Thank you for reading!
-Danielle
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