The night before, we read Very Last First Time, a story about an Inuit girl who follows village tradition and walks on the bottom of the sea to gather mussels for dinner. It's one of our favorite Five in a Row books.
We also discussed one of our favorite Holling C. Holling books about an industrious little hermit crab, Pagoo.
The next morning at the Ocean Institute, the kids sat enraptured as they listened to Eric Carle's A House for a Hermit Crab. After watching a short video on hermit crabs, it was time for hands-on experience.
Jonathan stayed remarkably still in hopes that the hermit crab would emerge.
His patience was rewarded.
The kids used underwater magnifying cameras to study more hermit crabs.
Hermit crab shells were sorted according to size.
Don't be deceived by good looks...this guy is poisonous.
The incomparable experience of touching a starfish.
We were also able to admire moonjellies, a lobster weighing over 50 lbs., sea urchins (can anyone say "uni sushi"?) and many more of God's marvelous ocean creatures.
An altogether lovely day of learning!
"So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind...and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:21
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