Where is the pup’s mother? Sleeping in the snow.
What animal is she? seal.
What might she have learnt already from her mother? How to find food.
How old is the pup? 2 months old
Do you remember learning to swim? What were the biggest challenges you had to overcome? Droning.
Will the pup be brave enough to enter the water? I believe she can.
How is it that some animals are better swimmers than others? Maybe overcoming swimming in the cold water.
Would you be able to do it? No to cold.
How do you think it would feel to swim in that water? Freezing cold water
The young pup peered down into the icy water below with a growing feeling of trepidation. Only a few days old, she had learnt so much already from watching her mother, but this challenge was her greatest so far.
How would it feel to be submerged? What would she find lurking underneath the surface? How would she ever get back onto dry land?
Questions flooded her mind like a torrent of icy water, but bravely she inched closer to the edge. A change of spirit came to her head. I can do it. I can do it slowly. She submerged her body into the water. Slow mum said she slowly went down.
The next day of swimming she was a pro. look at me go mum i can swim all by myself. after her swim she did not feel herself she got sick her mum did not know what to do later that day she died of cancer.
