This week in science we started building the coral reef. Our coral reef is contained inside a giant plastic bubble that is blown up by a powerful fan. Inside we have our boulders that we built out of paper mache, cardboard boxes, and paint. Inside the bubble it is really dark, so to light things up, and to make thing it look cool, we have multicolored Christmas lights.  Inside, there is also different types of coral. We have finger coral, fire coral, brain coral, and fan coral. My grounded fan coral, we made the coral out of sticks, wire, and tissue paper. We used multiple layers of tissue paper, so that when you shine light through it, you can see the other color, or design on it. We also have all of the animals that my class has made, and blogged about. My animal is a Turkey Moray Eel named Traf. I made my eel out of toilet paper tubes, hot glue, paint, and clay. Some of the other projects were a Manatee named Wilbur, a Lemon Shark, an octopus, a sea cucumber named Sebastian. We will be showing the school the coral reef next week, I will try to remember to tell you how it went next week.

Boulder Making