A guide for using our resources

Children will explain why seashells make great homes for hermit crabs.

Vocabulary: acuario, ficción, proteger

Science Focus: animal adaptations

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• In this classic, a hermit crab travels through the sea, meeting ocean animals and asking them to help furnish his seashell home.
• Read the book and then read the issue. After reading both, use our Fiction and Nonfiction skill sheet to compare the texts.

• Send home the skill sheet ¡No camines como el cangrejo! with each child. Explain that they will ask their adults at home what do they think each idiom or frase hecha means.
• For fun you can ask children what they think the idioms mean, and later compare the answers they bring from home.

• Use pages 2-3 of the issue to do this scavenger hunt as a group.

1. En el cuadro rojo, encuentra la palabra que signifi ca “evitar hacerse daño”. Rodéalo.
2. Encuentra el cangrejo que está asustado. Márcalo con un ✓.
3. Encuentra el titular. Subráyalo.
4. Encuentra la foto que tiene dos términos. Rodéalos.

Skill: art, writing

Materials: construction paper, paper plates, pipe cleaners or small craft sticks, watercolors or markers, glue, googly eyes (optional)

• Have each child decorate a paper plate with either markers or watercolors. This will be the crab’s shell.
• Next, have children trace their hand on a sheet of construction paper and cut it out. With the fingers of the handprint pointing down, have kids glue the paper plate to the thumb at the left side of the handprint.
• Have students attach pipe cleaners or small craft sticks to the heel of their handprint for eye stalks. For fun, they can glue googly eyes to the ends.
• To include writing, have children write a fact they learned about hermit crabs on the back of the shell!