Crab

Date: 18^th March 2014

Day: Tuesday

Time: 3:00-4:00pm

Class: Pomegranate

Theme: Underwater World

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Crab

We had some brainstorming session about crab.

Teacher: Crab is considered a crustacean. Do you still remember where you see this word before? [No answer from the children. They are thinking hard about it.]

Teacher: Do you remember what do seals eat?

Children: Fish.....shellfish......crab...

Teacher: Crustacean is inclusive of crab, lobster, shrimp etc. [I drew a picture of a crab, lobster and shrimp.] Look at these creatures, what do they have in common?

Kwan Ming: They have a lot of legs.

Derek: They have this. [Showing his finger as pincer]

Kern Ee: Water.

Aiden: Water.

Teacher: Water is one of it. They live in water. How about their body? What do they have in common?

Kern Ee: Shell.

Teacher: Are those shells hard or soft?

Kwan Ming: Soft.

Teacher: Are you sure they are soft?

Children: No. Hard.

Teacher: Crustacean has hard shell and they mostly live in the water.

Then we look at the features of a crab. These are some of the features that the children mentioned:

-          It has eight legs

-          It has 2 pincers

-          It walk sideways

-          It stays in the sand, holes or rocks

-          It has a hard shell

It has 2 eyes