If you have been near any elementary schools in the past 10 years or so, you know the character of Froggy by Jonathan Landon.
I have a few of the books in my personal library. The girls think he is funny and relatable.
During the last of our homeschool units we were studying about frogs and reading some of the fiction Froggy books.
Soon, we were on a mission to find frog eggs, tadpoles or adult frogs.
We asked all the ranch workers to be on the lookout for frogs.
We finally got one!!
(Matt dumping the frog out of the bucket he was contained in before he came to the house.)
One of the girl ranch hands found him while irrigating back up in Paint Rock Canyon in a pasture called “Rinehart”. It was the one place we haven’t been to look yet.
He was a Northern Leopard frog.
We did a bunch of observations.
Froggy traveled all around with us that day.
We caught two big black ants, a horse fly and a box elder bug for him to eat. I think he was a little too stressed.
He survived a 2 year old, and four 4 year old kids. (Yes…four 4 year olds…at a play date over in the campground.)
Froggy only escaped once and I was the only brave one to catch him. Ruby and Clara liked looking at him. Clara wouldn’t touch or hold him. Ruby would do both.
After a long 12 hour day with us, we released him near the creek that night.
Thanks, Froggy. You were special!
