Do you love animals? I know that I do! My family and I have been watching the Animal Planet Documentary, The Aquarium, starring the animals of the Georgia Aquarium. The aquarium in Atlanta hold 10 million gallons of water and over 600 different species. Disclaimer: These documentaries feature the full circle of life for these animals. Check out their website which includes lessons for teaching at home. Check out their webcams here. (super fun to watch!) Inspired by the documentary the family wanted to find a book featuring an animal that may live at the Georgia Aquarium. Because we did not have a book featuring an animal that could live in an aquarium in our home. Mrs. Harden found a trailer for the book, This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen. It does not show us the whole story so we don't know how it ends. So we used our skills of prediction to write our own ending to the story. Prediction is a guess that you make using pictures or text. I think________ because______. Once we get back to school and back to the library, the family will have to see if our predictions for the ending were correct or if they need to adjust their predictions. We were able to find the audiobook version on Epic! More ideas for this book: Talk about sequencing: what happened first, second, third and last in the story. Describe the characters' personalities. Design a new hat for big fish then use your designs to actually create the hat. Tank the turtle is one of our favorites from the Georgia Aquarium. Mrs. Harden found a book on TumbleBook called, Turtle, Turtle Watch Out. After watching, the family discussed how best to help turtles in the wild, focusing on their habitat and what they eat. Then each family member created something that explains the importance of sea turtles and how humans can do more good than harm. Their choices were: write a letter to others educating them on the importance of sea turtles, make a book of facts about sea turtles (in print or using Book Creator), create signs with illustrations, make a movie or create slides about the dangers sea turtles face. I overheard that the family want to plan a visit to the Georgia Aquarium. I hope that I get to go too. I would love to see the whale sharks in bunny (person)! I just had a thought, my family and I (or just the kids) could use this time to actually plan a trip to Atlanta. They could research how much money it would cost to travel there by car, how many hours it would take and what we could see once we arrive in Atlanta. I wonder if they can read a map? Real world learning! Stay well, Tulip
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