We've adopted a dolphin!

We've adopted a dolphin. We weren't sure what animal to adopt so we split into groups and each group researched an animal that Mrs MacNab gave them.

We then had to do a short talk about our animal to persuade other people to vote for it. We used a Greek water clock to time the talks.

When we counted the votes the bottlenose dolphin had the most so Mrs MacNab has adopted that for us.

Did you know that we learned about democracy from the Ancient Greeks?

The Greek word demos means people!

Here is more information from Dani and Alanah.

Alanah wrote:

Our class is going to be adopting a bottle nose dolphin and we will be taking a toy one home. Its name is Rainbow and it has two or three babies. It lives near Inverness and she is a girl.

Dani wrote:

Our class is adopting a dolphin called Rainbow. She is a bottlenose dolphin. We will also get a little toy dolphin. You might see Rainbow if you go to Inverness and it also has a baby but we don’t know what it’s called yet but we might find out.

Here is Rainbow having fun. We think it is one of her babies with her.

Photo ©Charlie Phillips/WDCS

We will tell you more about our dolphin when we find out more. We hope when Rainbow's toy dolphin arrives it has some exciting adventures with our class.

Thanks to Charlie Phillips of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society for letting us use his photo on our blog.