This is a Christian Home School Lesson Series for 4-5 year olds on God’s sea creatures!
Lesson 5 is on the Sea Horse.
Purpose: To explore and know more about God’s creature called the Sea Horses.
Book(s) read:
Other tools:
Laptop (to show Youtube videos)
Measuring Tape (to show size)
Learning Objectives:
- Learn general knowledge about the sea horse
- Learn the vocabulary concerning sea horse
- Illustrate the sea horse.
- Learn a spiritual lesson from sea horse
Lessons
1. Learn general knowledge about the sea horse
Tool 1: Read Lola M. Schaefer Sea Horses.
Tool 2: Questions
What colors of seahorses did you see in the book?
What is your favorite picture of the sea horses?
Tool 3: Further period of instructions
There are over 54 kinds of Seahorses. “Kinds” in science are called species.
Sea horses ranges in size from 0.6 to 14.0 inches (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seahorse#Description).
“Sea horses have 3 main fins to help them swim and steer. They are one fin on their back and one small fin on each side of their head. Seahorse also have a 4th fin under their belly for stability control. Their fins help them stabilize their body in the water.” (http://sciencewithkids.com/science-facts/sea-horse-facts-for-kids.html)
“Seahorse live in three main places, including underwater sea grass beds, mangrove tree roots and coral reefs.” (http://sciencewithkids.com/science-facts/sea-horse-facts-for-kids.html)
Male sea horses have pouches where sea horse eggs are kept and hatched.
Tool 4: Videos
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdXGSsKKAiQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdQIykGWpG4
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqP0xqbnAMU
2. Learn the vocabulary concerning sea horse
(Note: Write down the vocabularies on a white board)
- Pouch: “A pocket of skin used to carry eggs or baby animals” (Lola M. Schaefer Sea Horses, 22).
- Fin: “A body part that a fish uses to move and steer in the water” (Lola M. Schaefer Sea Horses, 22).
- Gill: What fishes use to breathe in oxygen instead of lungs.
3. Illustrate the sea horse
Have four blocks to draw in.
First block label and draw a sea horse. (Note: The child might have difficulties but encourage the child to draw on their own first and you will help later).
Second block label “fins” and draw a sea horse will fins. (At this point you can assist the child with his or her drawing).
Third block label and draw a sea horse with a pouch.
Fourth block draw a sea horse again.
Switch paper and see the similarities and differences in one another’s drawings. Note to the child the improvements made in the drawing as encouragement as well since drawing sea horses can be difficult.
4. Learn a spiritual lesson from a sea horse
Tool 1: Bible
“God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good.” (Genesis 1:21)
In the context this is the fifth day of God’s creation (Genesis 1:23).
Note God’s creation included “every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind.”
This of course would have includes jellyfish.
Tool 2: Questions
How do jellyfish show the awe of God’s creation?
Review: Share what you learn today.
The Domain for Truth 
and daddy seahorses really help with raising the children 🙂
Some males of our species can learn something from daddy seahorses; That men should be in their children’s lives. It is tragic that it is not talked about more by the media concerning the correlation between troubled men that become mass shooters and them having a bad relationship with their fathers. Years ago I read a book on the correlation of bad or missing fathers with those committing serious crimes and are in jail. If more father were more like sea horses than absentee fathers, we have a slightly better world, amen?
I couldn’t agree more Jim— and we’re a society who has children while expecting others to take care of them- new moms need more time off to be new moms vs the 6 to 8 was granted— but don’t get me started on responsibility and our society— which brings us back around to daddy seahorses
As a kid I was fascinated with seahorses because of their uncanny resemblance to horses. So cool!
Sea Horses are one of the more cooler sea creatures in my opinion. Perfect for lessons for my young ones too. Hope you have a blessed day at work today brother Tom!
Thanks brother, Jim! The quitting whistle is only 3 hours away, not that I’m watching the clock. 🙂 Hope you’re having a blessed day yourself!
Eeeek, Kk is going to love this! I’m going to share this lesson this Saturday. God bless you, brother!
Thank you sister for your plan to share this lesson! Just FYI I have one more lesson and I’ll be done with the sea creature lessons. Hope you daughter enjoy your time teaching her with every subject!
That’s so exciting! I’ll wait for that last lesson. I get so excited to share these lessons with all my homeschooling friends that I forget to be patient and wait for the last one.
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