Elephants

Date: 22nd June 2015

Day: Monday

Time: 4:30-5:30pm

Class: Pomegranate

Theme: I Love Zoo Animals

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Elephants

Today, we moved on to another animal - elephant. Before we moved in further, I get the children to tell me what they know about elephant. 

Jing Heng: It can splash water. (I think he refer to the trunk of the elephant.)

Xiang Qin: It outside got teeth. 

Yi Ern: Got big ears.

Devon: It got long teeth. Hit the leopard.

Zi Yue: She has big legs. 

Yee Shuen: The elephant can step the lion.

Shang En: Elehphant's nose is very long. 

Aiden: The elephant's trunk is very strong.

Aiden brought us a book on safari animals, there's a subtopic about elephant. Therefore, we read about the elephant from there. From the book, we managed to gather some facts and information about elephants. Basically, there were 2 types of elephant - African elephant and Asian elephant.

African Elephant 

- larger than Asian elephant

- has less hair than Asian elephant

- has big fan-shaped ears

- both male and female have tusk

Asian Elephant

- smaller than African elephant

- has more hair than African elephant

- has smaller ears

- only male elephant has tusk

We watched a short video about elephants: Elephants: Animals for Kids