Let’s learn more about crab

Date: 19^th March 2014

Day: Wednesday

Time: 3:00-4:00pm

Class: Pomegranate

Theme: Underwater World

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Let’s learn more about crab

Today, we reviewed back all the vocabularies that we had learned so far. The vocabularies are as followed:

fish	gill	scales	shark	fin
whale	lung	seal	flippers	seahorse
snout	male	female	sea lion	walrus
tusk	pouch	crab	crustacean	pincer

Yesterday, I went through the concept of “pair” with the children as the crab has 8 legs, then it should also be counted as 4 pairs of legs. However, the children had some confusion about it. Therefore, today, I took them outside to look at their slippers as slippers come in pair. Hopefully from this activity, the children could understand the concept of pair. At the end of the activity, I get the children to walk back to their classroom in pairs. 

4 volunteers to make up the numbers of crab legs.

The children took off their slippers and started to count in pairs. 

The children walk back to their classrooms in pairs. 

Book Sharing: Crab

In the book of “Crab” it introduced quite some knowledge about crab such as their habitat, diet, young crabs, how to differentiate a male and female crab etc.

Book Sharing: Hermit Crab’s Friend

Cikgu Tee (the children’s BM teacher) is on leave today. As a result, I got some extra time with the children. I used this chance to bring in hermit crab. This story is in Mandarin; however, the children requested that I tell it in English. That’s a good start.

It’s a story about hermit crab and its friend such as the sea anemone. Hermit crab has soft shells and it always needed a shell to protect itself from its prey such as the octopus. The sea anemone will stick to the hermit crab’s shell and move around with it. Besides getting the leftover food from hermit crab, it also protects hermit crab from other dangerous prey. It’s a win-win situation.