More on crab & book sharing

Date: 2nd March 2015
Day: Monday
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Ocean
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

More on crab & book sharing

Today, we learned a little bit more about crab. Some of the crab will carry their eggs and let it flow along with the sea currents while some will carry its young until they were able to be on their own.

I showed the children some pictures of the mother crab who carried their young crabs with them. Once the young crab could be on their own, they have to hide themselves in some empty shells or near the rocks as fish or baby dragonfly loves to feed on them.

We also learned to differentiate between the male and female crab by looking at the shape of their stomach. Hopefully we could get a real crab to observe it.

Book Sharing - Hermit Crab's friend

This simple reading book introduces hermit crab. Hermit crab needed a shell as its house or protection from enemy who loves to eat them such as the octopus or fish. The sea anemone is a friend to the hermit crab. It will stick on to the hermit crab and share food with it. It'll also protect hermit crab from being attacked.

Once, there was an octopus that saw the hermit crab and wanted to eat it. The sea anemone stink the octopus and make it numb. Unfortunately, at this time came by a sperm whale who loves to eat octopus. The octopus became its food.