How does a snail move forward when he has no legs?

• Felix “How do he move?
• Sebastian “Like this!” (Sebastian drops down on to the floor to show Felix how the snail moves.)

• Felix “Like a water snail. The shiny one. The sticky shiny one. From the snail.” (the slime helps him move)
• Michelle “He can be walking, the sticky he has the sticky white.”

Leming provided an explanation by moving his body along the floor.

• Michelle “He is like walking and climbing”
• Nina “Can this one fly?”

All the children said “NO!”

• Nina “Can he eat?”
• Teacher “What does he eat?”
• Nina “spaghetti…leaves.”

The teacher pointed to the shell.

• Sarah “A shell.”
• Felix “His home.”

• Felix “His eyes.”

• Felix “This is a water snail. Because I see water and he is going in the water.”
• Teacher “Are all the shells the same?”
• Nina “No, because the color is not the same.”
• Charlotte “In Chinese is 蜗牛 wo niu he is too slow. Cool. He is eating. Leaves.”
• Sarah “Like caterpillar.”
• Felix “Because a caterpillar don’t have a shell.”
• Charlotte “He is too slowly. because he has a shell and it’s heavy.”

• Felix “That’s how he goes, slowly.”
• Sarah “And he does not have legs like a caterpillar.”
• Nina “Why is don’t have hair?”
• Felix “Outside in the morning was lots of snails.”
• Sarah “It lives there.”
• Felix “How does a snail go forward?”
• Michelle “Because he has sticky bangogang (bubblegum).

• Nina “Because he has this one things on his head he can go forward.”
• Charlotte “Crawl.”

• Felix “How does he pull himself forward because just like this how does he move he does not have hands and feet?”
• Sarah “His tummy.”

The children continue to wonder how snails move forward. Although they shared many different theories, they continue to wonder how this happens. We wonder if we can observe snails moving. Perhaps we can bring some snails into class to observe them closely, and then return them back into their own habitats after we observe them. 

During the discussion, we noticed how the children were talking about similarities and differences between the different creatures (mini beasts) that live around us. 

We continue to explore the different experiences that might help us lean more about change, growth, life-cycles and survival.