We've completed our whale study.  Here are a few of the main points we learned. This is laid out in the kids' lapbooks as well.

• whales are divided into 'baleen' & 'toothed' whales
• the different names of whales in those two categories ( examples: gray, humpback, right, narwhal, beluga, blue )
• whale movements - logging, spyhopping, breaching, & lobtailing
• how sound travels through water as opposed to air; the way whales communicate & the sounds they make
• this was an excellent place to go over the story of Jonah & the whale; discussing what we can learn from that story
• the kids also wrote a short whale story

The only thing left to do is to make whales out of clay for our 'ocean' box. We won't be getting to that for a couple weeks.

Cutting, coloring, organizing all our information to go into the books

Gluing everything into the books

The finished products ~ lapbooks ~ explained on video

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