The shark and the puffer fish

Last term we learnt about puffer fish and some of the children are still very interested in them.  Here is Charin reading a story she wrote about a puffer fish and a shark.

Porcupine fish

Today we got to look at a real porcupine fish.  We were pretty excited and some of us were a little scared!

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We talked about why it has spines and Solomon was keen to tell us that they are to protect it from other fish and sharks(have a look at the video on the left of our blog).  Here is a video of Solomon telling us what he knows about puffer fish.  

After all that the children thought it would be fun to pretend to be puffer fish. Bill was the shark and when he came near us we had to puff up to scare him away!  Lucky for us it worked!

Alice drew this picture of the puffer fish on kid pix.

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