Whales can't sleep?

Date: 29th January 2015
Day: Thursday
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Ocean
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Whales can't sleep?

Ean Jin brought a shark toy to share with her fellow classmates. The children could see the features and parts of the shark clearly.

By referring to the whale reference book, there mentioned about baleen whales and toothed whales. Besides, that it introduces that Humpback whale sings.

An interesting part pop up, it's about why can't whale fall into deep sleep although whales also needed about 8 hours of sleep per day. Fortunately, we did the float and sink experiment. The children somehow have some idea about what float and sink is. At this point, when I explained that whales needed to breathe from time to time, the children somehow understand the point that if the whale had fallen into a deep sleep, they might sink to the deep part of the sea and drown.

I promised the children that I shall show them a video about Humpback whale that sings and a story about it.

Then by looking at their whale origami yesterday, I asked the children if they could make some simple sentences with it.

Teacher: This is a whale.
Jie Min: The whale open the mouth to eat fish.
Alice. The whale open the mouth....
Teacher: To breathe? (Alice nodded)
Germaine: The whale has fins.
Ean Jin: The whale is a mammal.
Yu Han: The whale has no teeth.

I pasted the whale origami on the A4 paper for each of them and get them to decorate or added any other details onto the picture.