Pygmy Seahorses

Our writing this week was all about Pygmy Seahorses. These adorable little creatures are so interesting.

On Monday Mrs Fulford shared a video about Pygmy Seahorses. Here is the youtube clip.

We watched the clip through and then we discussed what they meant by pygmy (it means very, very little)Then Mrs Fulford gave everyone a piece of paper and pen so that we could do some note taking. We had already done note taking so we knew that it means writing the key words to remind ourselves about the content of the video. 

We watched the video again, this time Mrs Fulford paused it when we heard a key word which we recorded down. As we went through the video we discussed what we had written. At the end of the video we watched it one more time, this time ticking the key words as we heard them. Here are some photos of our note taking.

On Tuesday Mrs Fulford gave us the 10 word challenge. This is a writing exercise where you have 10 key words that you need to cut out and put into sentences about the topic. Our key words came from our note taking and were…

pygmy seahorse  camouflage  Philippines

predators    tubercles   calcified bumps 

2cm   smallest species    coral   sea fan

The children came up with some great report writing about Pygmy Seahorses. Here are some examples. Swayzee had a great sentence comparing how Pygmy Seahorse use camouflage to chameleons (we learnt about them last week) It was a great transfer of knowledge.

Another great example of transferring knowledge was Levi. He found a cone shaped block (knew it was cone shaped from our shape learning) then showed Mrs Fulford how he was like a chameleon because he had a cone shaped eye too. Well done!