Shark Week

Before dinosaurs roamed the earth, sharks hunted through the oceans!  They're such skilled survivors that they've had little need to evolve in the last 150 million years.These predators fascinate adults and children alike and although they were not on the list of Sea Creatures the kids wanted to learn about I knew they had to have their own week (so did the Discovery Channel). 

A few fun facts the kids enjoyed learning: 

• The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
• Sharks are fish
• Unlike other fish(and kids) they don't have bones
• Cartilage in a shark is just like the cartilage in our ears and nose
• Baby sharks are called pups
• Most sharks have at least 4 rows of teeth

 

Great White Puppets

Nothing like painting an envelope black and creating your very own shark puppet. Simple but the kids loved them.

 5 Little Fish

Five little fish swimming in the sea

teasing Mr. shark,

you can't catch me

you can't catch me

(whisper) Along came Mr. shark as quiet as can be

And he snapped (CLAP) that fish right out of the sea.

 Repeat counting down until the shark is full and there are "no more fishies living in the sea"

How many kids does it take to be as long as a great white shark? 

The average shark is 15 feet and it took 6 kids.

How long can you get 6 kids to lay on the ground pretending to be a great white shark? 

Not long, they want to "see the picture" :)

 Shark Teeth 

After learning about how cool and different shark teeth are (they can have up to 15 rows of teeth ~ some loose as many as 30,000 in their lifetime and they can replace teeth every few days) we made our own.