Lesson Plan: Hello, Seahorse!

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Children will describe how a seahorse’s body helps it live in the ocean.

Science Focus: ocean animal adaptations

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• In this beautiful book, a father seahorse carries eggs in his pouch and waits for them to hatch as he swims around the ocean.
• Read this fiction book and compare it with the nonfiction article. Be sure to complete the Fiction and Nonfiction skill sheet too!

• Work together to find and circle every word in the issue that has a short i.

Skill: writing and drawing

Materials: paper, crayons

• Children learned that a seahorse isn’t really a horse—it’s a sea animal that looks a little like a horse!
• Invite children to make up their own sea animal (such as a seapig or a seadog) and draw it.
• Then have them finish this sentence: A sea _____ can _____!