Fish facts!

This morning we have been learning how we can find out information. We've been reading the book The Rainbow Fish and we wanted to learn more about fish and sea creatures.

First we talked about what we already know - for example, "they live under water," (Fallon), "they swim around in a fish tank," (Lilly) and "sometimes they live at the beach," (Emily).

Then we talked about what we wanted to find out and thought of some questions we'd like to answer. Some of these were - "What do they eat?" (Hope), "Are there big fish and little fish?" (Rhys) and "What colour tails do they have?" (Ollie).

Next we had to decide how we could find this information out. We decided that we could use the internet (which could be on computers, iPads or phones) or look in books. We split into two groups and looked at books about fish with Mrs Batson and used the internet with Miss Ayres to find answers to our questions and find some interesting facts about fish. Then we got together again in a big group to share what we'd learnt. Here are some of the things we found out!

Some fish are spiky, like the red lion fish.
Some fish are pink. 
They're very colourful animals.
Fish eat a lot of plankton.
The biggest fish is called the whale shark.
The smallest fish is called paedocypris progenetica and it's transparent! (We've learnt about transparent, translucent and opaque things before so we knew this meant that you can see through it).
The fastest fish is called the sailfish and it's very fast at leaping.
Nemo and Marlin in the film Finding Nemo are clownfish.
Jellyfish can sting you!
Some starfish are blue.