We’ve been learning about tadpoles and how they grow into frogs ever since we got our tadpoles in our classroom.  Because I had just attended our state science conference and learned how to make these super cool foldables, I thought I would try them out with my Kinders to organize our thoughts about tadpoles and frogs.

Dinah Zike is the master behind this foldable and I got this foldable from this book.

I used a 9×12 envelope and folded it as instructed in the book.  We glued the side under the envelope flap into our Inquiry notebooks.  I put a different colored “x” on each of the flaps and parts so I could show the children where to glue each part.  On the two inside flaps, we glued a 5 green and speckled frogs song booklet and the life cycle of a frog accordion booklet.  On the top back panel, we glued a model of a tadpole that can grow and change with our tadpoles.  We hid the extra back and front legs in the secret pocket that you can open from the flap.  On top of the secret pocket, we glued a life cycle fold up book.

On top of the envelope (when its all closed up and folded), we glued a frog tree map that we completed together.  They turned out really great and I’m working on creating them for sale.  We are going to create a new one next week for farms, so I’ll show you those soon!