Teenage Frog

[MrsLJ2014]

Anyone know of another name for a teenage frog?! I know the lifecycle goes frog spawn, tadpole, tadpole with legs, froglet, young frog, adult frog but apparently my Year 2 son wrote another word on his lifecycle in school! He's getting upset that he can't remember the word and apparently I won't know it as I only teach Year 1!! Google only gives me what I already know so I doubt there is another word...

Nymph?

Ooh, could be - I'll ask him when he's back from the park, thanks!

DD has been doing life cycles this AM at home and something has a nymph stage, but can't remember what.

Or alternatively he may be misremembering (and not have the background knowledge to realise) what a "hatchling tadpole" is?

He's said no to both of these ideas and is getting upset at not remembering the word - I think he's upset because he's normally so good at remembering! I'm at a loss!

I only know of froglet then frog. Could it be something to do with the word metamorphosis?

infovisual.info/en/biology-animal/life-cycle-of-a-frog
i think he has got mixed up with something else

He must be muddling up with something else! I've been teaching infants for over 20 years and have done frog life cycles in many of those years and have no idea what else it could be!

I reckon it was something like this picture.

Or else they did the life cycle and drew a second arrow around the outside with metamorphosis written on it and because it was next to the "teenage" frog that's what he's remembering. That's how it was written in DS's workbook and he found it confusing and I had to explain what it meant.

I've just googled 'synonyms for teenager' and apparently it's juvenile! Never used that one in a frog life cycle before myself but hey ho, he's happy I got the word!

Thank you FireBelliedToad

Oh yes, of course! Couldn’t check - he handed his workbook in on Monday.