This past week we continued our exploration of marine creatures with Shark Week! We made some totally awesome shark fin hats using silver vinyl and pipe cleaners. Check out Rachel to the left modeling one of our examples... Instant Halloween costume, perhaps?
We also created an (almost) life sized diagram of a Great White Shark. While a real Great White's measurements are between 15-20 ft, ours only came out to about 6 ft due to the size of the board--but even in "mini" form our shark turned out to be a pretty frightening fish!
We also created an (almost) life sized diagram of a Great White Shark. While a real Great White's measurements are between 15-20 ft, ours only came out to about 6 ft due to the size of the board--but even in "mini" form our shark turned out to be a pretty frightening fish!
Other projects from this week included our own Shark Fact Books as well as shark portraits made from texture rubbings. To create the rough look of shark skin we used sandpaper, cut it out into the shape of a shark, placed it under some paper, and ran a crayon over the paper to create an instant rough-looking shark portrait! We also read lots of shark related books including Nick Ward's "Don't Eat The Teacher!" Don't forget to click on any picture here to visit our Shark Week Photo Gallery!