Gabriella Sciancalepore, Randall Carter School
Passaic County
Southern gray treefrog. Gabriella Sciancalepore
Southern Gray Treefrog
Have you ever heard of a treefrog? Well I am a different kind of treefrog. I am the southern gray treefrog. How would you feel if your habitat was ruined? Well I am the southern gray treefrog and I am endangered. Why would you hurt a little treefrog like me? That is why I need your help.
To come and save me you need to know what I look like. My color is green and yellow. I love to eat flying insects like flies and other crawling insects. My length is 1.25 to 2 inches. I like to spend time up in trees. I also move to water edges to swim. I like to swim in ponds or swamps.
I am endangered because you cut down my good trees that I need to live in. You just cut down my trees for toothpicks that you people don’t ever use. I am very careful when I swim in my water because it is very vulnerable to illegal filling. I would like people that are reading this to help me get my habitats back so I can live as long as you do.
Can you people please help a little animal like me? I like to hang out on my lily pads lying on the great ponds. So if you don’t help me all of my friends and I will not go on them and play around or jump around. Don’t you people want to see me in the water, and up in long brown trees? I need you all to help me.
Written by: Gabriella Sciancalepore
Randall Carter School
Wayne, NJ
Teacher: Mrs. Lucci