More on whales

Date: 15th January 2014

Day: Wednesday

Time: 3:00-4:00pm

Class: Pomegranate

Theme: Underwater World

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

More on whales

Now, I wonder if the children came back with an answer for “Why can’t a whale sleep for too long in the water?”

Kern Ee: I don’t know. They will die.

Teacher: How will the whale die?

Derek: I don’t know. My father didn’t say.

Teacher: (giving hints) If the whales don’t move, do you think the whale will go up to the surface or down to the bottom of the sea?

Children: Down… to the bottom.

Teacher: How does the whale breathe? Do they use gills or lungs?

Children: (after a short thought) lungs.

Teacher: If the whale needs to breathe by using lungs, they need to move up to the surface for breathing. If the whale goes down to the bottom of the sea, what will happen to the whale?

Kern Ee: The whale will die.

Teacher: The whale will drown. They can’t swim to the surface that fast. They are very big and heavy.

Getting prepare for a fishing pond

I wanted the children to learn some vocabulary through games. Therefore, I get the children to colour some underwater sea creatures’ pictures and cut out the shape of a fish that I had printed out. Hopefully by next week, we could set up the play corner for this.