We have been studying whales. Chewonki came and they brought a pilot whale skeleton. We put it together. It was interesting and fun, and we really enjoyed it. Thank you to our PTA for getting the program for us!
We are going to tell you facts about blue whales. The pictures we picked are blue whales. Blue whales are hard to photograph. We found lots of humpback whale pictures that were labeled wrongly as blue whales!
Our Facts:
Blue whales can be 100 feet long. They are the biggest animal that ever lived! They are bigger than the biggest dinosaur.
A baby blue whale is about as long as 5 bathtubs.
Their flippers are only 5 feet long.
A baby blue whale is called a calf. It can gain 200 pounds a day. They drink mom's milk. The mother squirts the milk into her baby's mouth. The baby plays on mom's flipper. The baby stays with mom for a year.
Blue whales have baleen. They don't have teeth. They swim to Antarctica to eat krill. Krill are like small shrimp, and they are about the size of your little finger. They eat thousands of pounds of krill in a day! Blue whales eat by gulping water and their baleen traps the krill. Their mouth gets so humungous that our whole first grade could swim in it! Throat pleats let their mouth get so big.
Blue whales swim alone. They do not swim in pods.
Like all baleen whales, blue whales have two blowholes.
We want to keep the oceans clean, so the beautiful creatures like blue whales don't die.
7 comments:
Hey Starfish, great facts about blue whales, I really liked reading about the baby blue whales. Wow - a baby gaining 200 pounds a day by drinking Mom's milk - imagine how many "cartons" of milk that must be!
~Love, Emma's Mom
Dear Starfish,
I had no idea that blue whales were bigger than the biggest dinosaur! That's really interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Love,
Miss Paterson
Blue whales are one of my favorite sea creatures. Even a baby blue whale is very big.
Very interesting facts about Blue Whales! I had no idea that they had two blowholes. Thanks for the info!!!
Blue Whales Are Cool!!!!!!!!!!
wow, this is really cool. I love learning new stuff about the oceans.
Good Job with the facts! I remember when I was in first grade and we did our whale project and we used the hall way to see how long 100 feet is. Its very big!
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