Sea Turtle

Date: 27th March 2015

Day: Friday

Time: 3:00-4:00pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Beautiful Ocean

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Sea Turtle

I found a book on sea turtle. The story is about a girl named Rou Rou who went to the East Coast of Malaysia to search for sea turtle. It also mentioned some facts and details about the sea turtle such as numbers of eggs it will lay, the threats faced by the baby sea turtle etc.

There’s a point where it mentioned about the food that sea turtle eats – jellyfish. The jellyfish art that we did by using the plastic bag is still in the class. Therefore, I take this opportunity to get the children to visualize the threat faced by the sea turtle. I gave quite some hints about the materials that we used to do the jellyfish (a shopping plastic bag). Yet, the children still couldn’t get what I want. It’s alright!

Then, I reveal the answer. The children started to see the point. When I mentioned that sea turtle loves to eat jellyfish but unfortunately, they ate plastic bag which looks like a jellyfish. Some children started to mention about stomachache. Hopefully by using this opportunity to educate children not to simply throw rubbish into the sea. It will kill the sea creatures.

Our “Beautiful Ocean” theme has come to an end. The children had already chosen their new thematic topic – food. Parents could start to work with your kids to read on some information, books or even explore them to food to help them to understand and get involved in the class more.