A Trip To The Aquarium

My class went to the aquarium. When we got there we saw a scuba diver cleaning out a huge fish tank with hundreds of  fish. Tons of kinds, big and small, different color fishes. After looking at most of them we went to a touching area. It was weird when I touched a sea anemone. It was like my finger was in a vacuum it sucked me in.

We had a class after that. We learned that in Puget Sound it is high tide twice a day and low tide twice, also. The lady that was teaching had five tables of sea animals. For instance, Crabs and Moon fish. Did you know that Starfish have eyes on every tenticall?

5th Grade Trip to the Seattle Aquarium

We the fifth Graders went to the Seattle Aquarium. At the aquarium we first got to see the big tank with a lot of fish in the tank. Next we got to go to the place in the aquarium where you get to touch some sea creatures. There you can touch sea anemones sea cucumbers and some really awesome starfish.

After we went to the touching areas this person took us to this classroom where there were some more sea creatures. One of the sea creatures was a sea cucumber. If you seen a sea cucumber you can see spikes on them, but the spikes are just for protection and to scare away enemies. The sea cucumber’s spikes are not pointy. They are soft and squishy and they are different colors.

We also saw an animal called a moon snail. You might think this is crazy but Moon snails have the power to drill through clams with their radula. They are able to make a perfect holes inside a clam. Their body is really squishy and big and their shell is really small and hard.

Latter we went to see a seal that was trained. There was a trainer that was going to feed the seal. The seal was able to clime rocks to get the food from the trainer. The seal was able to do some awesome things. For example, it was able to lift up his flipper (both flippers) and was even able to climb down the rocks to get back in the water.

The trip was awesome and everyone can’t wait to go back soon.