Whales ... the biggest creatures of the ocean

Today we read a book called The Snail and the Whale, it was a rhyming book about a snail that went across the world on the tail of a whale. The whale got too close to the shore when all the people were on their jetskis, then the whale got stuck on the sand (that's called beaching). Wanting to help the whale, the snail went to a school, into a classroom and wrote a message on the board saying "Save the whale". Everyone went to the shore and helped the whale get back out to sea. 

We talked about how sad it is to see whales beaching themselves. Many Preps said that they know this has happened on The Gold Coast before. Just last week a whale was beached, but luckily it was saved by being pushed out to sea by some people.

Afterwards, we looked at a information book about whales and we found out that there are about 78 different types of whales. The biggest whale of all is a blue whale. It can get to 26m. The found out the smallest whale is the pygmy sperm whale and it is 3m long.

We then put all of the whales onto paper with their length and measured them in order. Next week, we plan to investigate how big they are compared to other sea creatures.