All About Sharks
We are very happy to welcome Sh and her family to Flowers Class and Ohana family. Sh had a wonderful time getting into our routines that it did not seem like it was her first day😊. At circle time, we looked at our calendar and noticed that it’s already April. When Vieda said, “I wonder whose birthday month is April?”. Shayla excitedly raised her hand and said, “Mine! I’ll be 4!”. How exciting! We noted the date of her birthday on our calendar. We can’t wait to celebrate Sh’s birthday in Flowers!
Our circle time kicked off with the song Baby Shark and had fun dancing to its music! We like this song so much that we know the words quite well. But how about the real sharks? Thanks to Y for reading today’s question of the day, “Do you like sharks?”.
Sh, Da, and B answered NO. Here’s why:
Sh: I don’t like sharks because they try to eat us.
Da: Because sharks try to eat us, and they are fish.
Be: Because they scare us.
Some of our friends have seen “sharks” at the Universal Studios Japan or USJ. Incidentally, these are our friends who said they do like sharks. Here’s why:
Ky: USJ, I see shark,
K: Jaws! I try to touch, but I need to wait for one minute. There’s a password that I needed but I had to wait for one minute.
Ky: I see kazari (décor)move, but not go on jet coaster.
Y: I eat them (shark).
Za: They eat all the piranhas.
K: Because I like scary and terrifying sharks.
Ch: I like them because they are brave. The fish runs away but sharks still go after them.
When Sh heard Y said that he likes eating shark, she said, “But you can’t eat sharks!”. This made our discussion more interesting. Shayla was all ears when some of our friends shared their ideas. Thank you for listening, Sh!
Ky: Yes, you can eat sharks.
K: I eat the fin and eggs.
Sh: I don’t eat because I don’t like sharks.
D: I eat with my mouth. Shark is good. I eat in Brazil.
Z: I have a question. Can you cut up the shark and eat it?
Ch: Some parts, we can’t like the tails.
Sharks are fascinating marine animals. We have several books about sharks in our library and they are one of our favorite books to read during library time. We wonder how each of us feel when we talk about sharks.
Sh: Hmm, let me think. I think I feel bad.
Ch: I feel nothing.
Di: I feel super bad.
Y: I feel good.
Za: I feel happy because I can kill the shark and eat the fin.
Be: I feel sad.
Sharks, sharks, sharks! It is amazing how interesting it is to talk about. K raised his hand and asked if he could share a story he watched on YouTube. He said, “There was a kid swimming in the ocean. There was a shark. The parent dived back in and the picked the kid up. They did a massage on the kid, something they called it, but I forgot. The parent dived back in and wrestled with the shark. He took the kid’s arm and put it in the ice. The paramedics came and brought him to the hospital. At the hospital, the doctors were able to attach back the arm”. Wow, thank you for sharing!
D and B shared some of the pages from our shark books. These pages show people who got hurt by the shark. We can’t help but to feel a bit scared when we saw the photos. We wondered what sharks do in the ocean.
Ch: It hunts for food like crab, shrimp, and fish. Orca comes and scares the shark.
Yu: Shark play in the ocean!
Ky: Shark find people and try to eat them. I know, I see Jaws. Sharks eat “nama” meat.
Vieda: What is “nama” meat?
Ch: Nama beer. I know because it’s always on the menu.
Ky: Name meat is red color, little white, and square. In Jaws movie, I see people give it.
Ch: Nama meat has a little sweetness on it.
Za: Sharks run for its prey and eat them their camouflage. In dead corals, they use dead corals because they don’t move, and they are grey.
Ky: People catching the shark.
Be: Scuba diver is holding the shark and being pushed forward.
Z: Some sharks eat people.
Da: Look, ouchies lots of blood.
Thank you so much, Flowers for sharing a lot of ideas. Some think that sharks are scary, while some think that they aren’t. We all agree that sharks eat fish and other small animals in the ocean. And sometimes they bite people, too! If they do these things, we are quite interested why scientists say that sharks help marine life. That’s going to be our homework for today. Please share what you find out about this😊
Speaking of homework, Z and Ch shared what they found out. Ch said that he asked his mom and here’s what he said, “Dolphins have eyes but don’t know where they’re going or something, so they make the sound”. Then Za mentioned a big word that “makes them know where their enemies are. It’s called echo location”. Ky seemed to be interested with this word that he said, “Please tell me again Za said big word!”. Time was running out so, we decided to talk more about echo location tomorrow.
As we were talking about dolphins, Vieda said that there were photos that she would like to share with us. We were happy to see a picture of a dolphin and then we realized…” Oh that’s Be!”. She said, “I touched the dolphin’s head and here are the dolphin people. They take care of the dolphins.” Thank you so much for sharing!
We hope that your day was as terrific as ours😊
Love,
Flowers