【Moral Education】The Secret of the Little Tadpole

Meet the little tadpole

Black head Long tail

Last week, ten small tadpole guests came to the stone pit, and the children were very curious! In this way, we started a small tadpole exploration.

Little Tadpole Meet and Greet

Juncheng

The little tadpole is black, so small

Does it have a big head, a long tail, and the tail is its body? Do small tadpoles have bodies?

Grace

Why are some small tadpoles black and some transparent? Is it sick?

teacher

Tadpoles inhabit caves all year round, and do not see sunlight all day long, resulting in degradation and thus becoming transparent.

cave? However, I also saw a small tadpole in the pond of Jinghu Park, and it did not hide in the hole!

Yi Xi

Ye Ye

There are also small tadpoles in the pond next to my hometown.

Where the little tadpoles live

The kids took advantage of the weekend break and Mom and Dad brought gadgets to look for little tadpoles! And painted the place where the little tadpole lives!

Through comparative observation, children found that small tadpoles like to live in pools, small ditches or caves, small bodies, small tadpoles also like to burrow into the water and grass to hide.

Young children have a strong sense of observation, curiosity is the nature of each child, they actively explore the surrounding environment and things through their own unique ways. Prompted by the desire to explore, the children became more and more interested in these little guests...

Feeding of small tadpoles

Food for small tadpoles

While observing the little tadpoles, Baby Ruoxin was surprised to find that she put her hand on the outside of the bottle, and the little tadpole swam over to "eat" her hand!

Ruoxin: Are they hungry?

Bai Xun: What do small tadpoles eat?

Jon: I know, it should eat rice like we do!

Ruoxin: No, rice is so big, its mouth is not so big. I think it might eat breadcrumbs.

Dawn: Is its food water?

Enron: No, no, the little tadpole should eat leaves! You see, the notch in the leaf must have been bitten by a small tadpole.

What do the little tadpoles eat

Place the crumbs

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There is no change in the leaves

The crumbs were all gone

After a day of observation, the children found that the bread they had put in the previous day had been eaten by the little tadpole, and the leaves had not changed, still the same.

Trivia

Most tadpoles feed on algae, eat plankton in the water, and tadpoles also eat minced meat, small fish worms, bread crumbs and so on. If it is a leaf, it must be boiled and chopped before the tadpoles can eat.

The living environment of the small tadpole

One day after a walk, He Yixi's children found that the little tadpoles that came from the stone pit last time were dead!

Teacher, you see, the tadpoles in this bottle are dead! Why? Nothing else is dead wow!

The water of these two is a little green, but the green that died is deeper, and it must be that this water is dirty, so the little tadpole is dead!

No, this little bottle lid is not closed, the dead lid is always closed, is the little tadpole without air, suffocating to death?

It must be that the water is too dirty, we have not changed the water, the water next to it is so clean, the little tadpoles are still alive!

I also think the water is too dirty!

Why on earth would the little tadpole die? Ye Ye and Jon painted the living environment of the little tadpole in a picture way, and they had a new discovery...

Ye Ye: Teacher, I found that the little tads in the cup with no lid and clean water are alive.

Jon: The water in the lidded cup is dirty, and the little tadpoles inside are dead!

Jon

The water to raise small tadpoles cannot be changed for a long time, if it is not changed for a long time, the water is too dirty, and the lack of oxygen in the water will cause the death of the small tadpoles.

Almost 3-5 days to change the water for the small tadpole, only need to pour two-thirds of the water, and then add the aerated tap water into it! (Aerated water refers to the tap water that is put out in advance and exposed to the sun for a day)

Bring the water out a day in advance to aerate!

Give the little tadpoles a new home!

For the feeding of small tadpoles, the children have no experience before this, through a few days with the small tadpoles, I found that the children have a strong desire to explore, they with questions and planned observations, in the autonomous observation of the search for answers.

Little Tadpole Metamorphosis

From the picture book story "Little Frog Finds Mother", the little children know that the mother of the little tadpole is a frog, that is, the little tadpole can grow up to become a frog!

Yu Zong

However, the little tadpole has no legs, only a tail, how did it become a frog?

There are so many small tadpoles in our class, we carefully observe and record them every day, maybe there will be new discoveries!

The teacher helped the children print out a small tadpole record sheet.

Carefully record the changes in the small tadpoles

On the third day of the children's observation record, Masazawa Baby made a major discovery!

Masazawa

Look at it quickly, I seem to have found that the little tadpole has grown legs Wow!! Come and see if it is.

Masazawa's words aroused the curiosity of the children, and they came to watch, "This must be its legs" "Yay! The little tadpole is about to turn into a frog!! "The children are talking about it...

Gradually, the children found that more and more small tadpoles had grown legs...

While changing the water for the little tadpole, Bai Xun found a small tadpole lying on the wall of the plastic box, and it had obvious four legs!! Kids are excited! "It really turned into a frog" "No, it still has a tail, it's not a frog yet"...

Jing Ming: How come this little tadpole is not moving.

Jiapeng: It should be sleeping!

Yu Huang: No, I moved it, it didn't respond, it died!

Ye Ye: We all have serious water changes and give them bread crumbs to eat, why did we die?

Just when the children were still wondering why the little tadpole with legs died, the next day, the children found that several other small tadpoles with four legs were missing!!

After the children went home to check the information with their parents and watched the video in the kindergarten, we knew that after the little tadpole grew legs, it had to breathe with its lungs, and if it lived in the water all the time, it might suffocate to death. Long legs require a lot of nutrition, and if not adequately nourished, small tadpoles may also die.

After discussion, the children decided to send the little tadpole home ~ to make it better to survive...

Goodbye, little tadpole, grow up well and become a little frog!

In the theory of living education, Chen Heqin proposed: We must use nature and big society to make our living teaching materials, let young children learn in school, children's world is the child's own exploration, to discover, his own discovery of the world is his true world. In exploring tadpoles, I saw that young children were full of curiosity about this unknown little tadpole, their desire to explore was beyond my imagination, and all we teachers had to do was create a good environment and conditions for young children, support young children's activities, and record their true world.

Write at the end

The world of children is very big

Everything in nature is their living teaching material

Let them explore and discover for themselves!

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Photo: Zheng Yujuan

Editor: Zheng Yujuan

Audit: Shan Baoying