Starfish lives in salty water

Date: 13th March 2015
Day: Friday
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Class: Starfruit
Theme: Beautiful Ocean
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Starfish lives in salty water

I played them a video today about starfish.

Video: 11 facts about starfish

From the video the children learn that starfish basically has the following features:-

- starfish can also called sea stars
- starfish moves slowly
- starfish has tube feet
- starfish can grow back their arms or even their entire body
- starfish lives in salty water only

The children kept asking what does salty water means. Even though I gave example of the taste, some of them seems to look puzzle. Therefore, I quickly prepared some salt water from the kitchen and bring it back to the class. Each child was given a small spoon of the salt water. Then, they will taste it all at the same time. Some said it's nice, some said it's very salty (in Mandarin), some said they wanted to drink water.

I added some salt into a cup of water.

The children were getting ready with their small spoon of the salty water.

Now they were drinking it.

Kian Han said:"Ee, why it taste like that?"

By using this opportunity, I get them to remember the taste from the small spoon and from their water bottle. From here, I get to let them know the differences between salty water and fresh water.