There’s something fishy going on in Year 4…

To kick-off our topic ‘Blue Abyss’ in style, we completed observational drawings of REAL aquatic creatures. These were kindly donated by Weyfish and we are very grateful for their generosity! The animals certainly sparked our interest and we soon got to work, noticing and sketching their different features and patterns. The children had to try and draw them to scale, add shading and tone in order to make them look realistic and notice the finer details such as the scales, fins and claws of the creature.

The children have also been using water colours in order to show the ocean layers. We’ve learnt that the ocean is split up into 5 zones:

-Sunlight Zone (about 200m)

-Twilight Zone (about 1000m)

-Midnight Zone (about 4000m)

-Abyss (about 8000m)

-Trenches (down to 11,000m)

It’s been an action-packed topic so far and we haven’t even scratched the surface. Who knows what else we have in store as we continue our descent into the Blue Abys…

Mr. P