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From Egg to Frog

How a tiny egg in a pond becomes a jumping frog.

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A frog starts life as a egg in a pond. Frog eggs are soft, like . Lots of eggs stay together. We call this .

A comes out of each egg. A has a long tail and no legs. It swims in the water and eats little plants.

Soon the grows back legs. Then it grows front legs. Its tail gets smaller and smaller.

Now it is a little frog! It can jump out of the pond and live on too.

Word box: 5 words
tiny
very, very small
jelly
a soft food that wobbles
frogspawn
lots of frog eggs together in the water
tadpole
a baby frog that lives in water and has a tail
land
the ground, not the water

Questions

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1. Where are frog eggs?

2. What is frogspawn?

3. What does a tadpole have?

4. Which legs grow first?

5. What happens to the tail?

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