Teamwork

Teamwork is so important, especially in Room 408.  Today we read an article about schools of fish out of Ranger Rick magazine and were amazed at how all the fish worked together to swim as one big blob to protect themselves.

We learned that fish have eyes on the sides of their heads so they can watch out for each other's movements and be copycats. 

We also learned that fish in schools can sense each other's lateral lines (see above).

Watch on the video above to see some scads schooling to protect themselves from their swordfish predators.

This made us think of the book called Swimmy that we recently read together.

Click on the book cover to reread Swimmy by Leo Lionni.

In this story a fish named Swimmy encourages his school to swim all together like one big fish in order to chase the big fish away.


How do we use teamwork in the classroom?