Paragraphs: seahorse
Whiteboard Challenges
Challenge 1
Read the first paragraph, which is about the feeding habits of seahorses. Can you spot the sentence that doesn’t belong here?
Challenge 2
Read the second paragraph, which is about the unusual birth of seahorses. Can you spot the sentence that doesn’t belong here?
Challenge 3
Using some of the descriptive words from the Word Wall, write a short paragraph that describes the appearance of a seahorse.
Whiteboard Challenges
1) Seahorses use their long snouts like vacuum cleaners to suck up food. Because they do not have stomachs, they must eat constantly to stay alive. Seahorses face many threats in the wild. Their diet consists of tiny sea creatures called copepods.
2) Like all seahorses, pygmy seahorses give birth to live young. Unusually, it is the father, and not the mother, who gives birth to baby seahorses. Seahorses can change colour quickly to match their surroundings. The babies (known as fry) develop inside the father’s brood pouch. Here, they receive everything they need to grow such as oxygen and food.