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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Measuring a Whale


We were wondering about whales. We wondered which whales swam past New Zealand. We wondered how big they were. We thought a whale would fit in our classroom so we thought we would make a whale. We found out that humpback whales swim around New Zealand. They are 16 metres long.


We found a measuring stick that was one metre long. We only had one stick so we had to carefully mark the paper at the end of the stick and then move the stick along. We had to check that we put the end of the stick on our line.

We found out that the humpback whale has flippers that are as long as four  children.


We measured 16 metres.

Look at how long our whale is!!!

We painted our whale. A humpback whale doesn't have teeth. It has  baleen instead.

Our whale is beautiful. If you want to see it come and look in our classroom.

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