World Turtle Day: Eventful learning for kids in the classroom

Sponsored and coordinated by American Tortoise Rescue (ATR), the World Turtle Day is being observed each year on May 23 since 2000 with the objective of raising awareness and respect for turtles and tortoises as well as encouraging human action to help them survive and thrive, inform the organizers

Observance is social-media confined. However, enthusiasts dressed up as turtles organize campaign to save turtles in schools. Some schools take up art and craft projects of teaching about turtles in classrooms.

Activities in various zoos are also organised and children come for experiential learning and to watch tortoises and feed them.

Here is my phrasal-to-sentence poem for children with special needs

A turtle

A turtle with hard shell

A turtle with hard shell and soft belly

A turtle with hard shell and soft belly walks slow and steady

A turtle with hard shell, soft belly and webbed feet swims well

However, the school teachers can have eventful learning about the observance with micro-learning experiences as follow

1, short note on the observance for loud reading

2. An essay on tortoise for vocabulary building

3. A poem on turtle

4. Drawing a turtle's visual code