The interest was Orcas, so my job was to find ways to connect that to areas of skills we needed to work on, or review. The math was easy – using cubes to compare our heights to the length of a normal killer whale. That visual caused some wide eyes.  Then it was counting on a number chart to a normal age point. Labeling the body parts as we watched some video of Orcas hunting seal pups.

A take home project was wanted, so I hit my Pinterest boards – Ocean Theme first. There I found a classroom bulletin board that had sharks and orcas. I clicked to find the le sson was on sharks. However, I was able to see the Orca well enough to figure out how we could make ours.