Happy Shark Week Everyone!

Everyone in Room 20 knows that Mrs Graham loves Great White Sharks so there is often talk about sharks in our classroom - whether it be sharing funny photos like these:

reading the "Gilbert the Great" series of books (highly recommend - they're in our library!!!), 

being inspired by shark attack survivor Bethany Hamilton,

 or discussing the poster about shark finning that hangs on our wall.  Did you know 190 sharks die from finning EVERY MINUTE worldwide.  What a tragedy!  

One of our favourite things to do though is to check in with the Ocearch Shark Tracker.  This is an awesome site where you can see the actual migrations of Great White Sharks in South Africa and America.  Ocearch is a research group that tags the sharks with satellite transmitters to allow us to obtain better information about these endangered species.  Check it out here: http://sharks-ocearch.verite.com/

We are doing our bit to help encourage people to change their attitudes towards these magnificent creatures.  Check out the tracker and learn a little bit about the sharks.  It's fascinating!