The Snail and the Whale

Date: 22^nd January 2014

Day: Wednesday

Time: 4:00-5:00pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Underwater World

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Story Telling : The Snail and the Whale

I couldn’t find the English version of the book. Therefore I read the story in Mandarin. But in between, I do describe the story in some simple English for the children to learn some phrases or description.

The story is about a snail felt bored staying on the rock and wish to have an adventure out to the sea. It wrote a message on the rock asking for a free ride. A blue whale came to reply him. The whale took the snail at its’tail tip and set off for an adventure through the sea, to land where there’s beach and volcano, under the sea to look at sea creatures etc. Unfortunately, the sound of the motorboats scared the whale and it swam in to a cove. It was low tide then. As the whale was too big to swim out to sea by itself, the snail had an idea. He went to a school near to the cove and asked for help by writing a message : “Help the Whale”. The school children went off to look for the fire engine to help out the stranded whale. Finally, both the snail and the whale managed to be free from the situation and swim back into the sea.

The children finds the story very interesting especially when they see the snail still could grab hold firmly on the tip of the tail of the whale.

Then I asked the children if there’s any part of the story that attracted them.

Edmund: Why the snail can go into the water?

Pin Jee: All.

Thong Xuan: The whale.

My sharing to the children is that although we might be small sometimes but as long as we have the courage, we could solve a problem by ourselves.