Sharks

Date: 10^th February 2014

Day: Monday

Time: 3:00-4:00pm

Class: Pomegranate

Theme: Underwater World

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Sharks

Shark is also an area where the children were quite interested in. Therefore, we went into the “shark”topic today. Before we went in deeper into the topic, I just threw a question to the floor to see how much the children could tell about sharks.

Teacher: What do you know about shark?

Yee Shuen: Got sharp teeth. (She said that in Mandarin)

Kern Ee: Side got gills.

Teacher: That’s good.

Chloe: Shark got eyes.

Kern Ee: Shark got tails.

Teacher: Yes.

Derek: Shark got fins.

We summarized a little of what the children know about shark.

-          Shark lives in the sea.

-          Shark eats fish, people, octopus, shrimps, prawns, seal, sea lion etc (these were given by the children themselves)

-          Baby shark is called pup.

Book Sharing: Sharks, Big, Bigger, Biggest by Jerry Pallotta

This is a book about comparison betweens difference types of sharks such as the size, the habitat of certain sharks etc. It also brings in some mathematics concept for the children. It might be quite abstract for some of them to understand, we treat this as a fact book for them to go through.

Book Sharing: The Hungry Shark by Lorraine Lee (Pelangi)

This is a simple yet interesting story about the hungry shark hunting for its lunch. With its simple and short sentences, the children could understand the shark’s diet in the ocean.

After that, I distributed a piece of blank paper for the children to draw their favourite sea creature that appeared in “The Hungry Shark” story. Most of the children drew jellyfish while some of them drew all the sea creatures that appeared in the story.