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Beach Week 2

Seining In Barnegat Bay



Most of us learned something new this week. It is called seining. As it shows in the above picture, you hold the ends of a long net with floats on the top and bottom and walk along in the shallow water and scoop up whatever is swimming in the area. Then you choose what you are going to keep and put the rest back in the bay.

We went to the bay about a block from Leaming's Marina in Waretown. We had 3 large buckets with salt water and what we caught. We had a lot of puffer fish, a star fish, and other fish.

We made lots of crafts that week. We made water bottle fish, paper plate port holes, underwater scenes, and fish shaped sand art. We had been collecting small water bottles and we twisted the bottom and turned it up. We cut fins out of foam and hot glued them and googlie eyes to our fish. The we used glue and a paint brush toglue tissue paper all over the fish. They were all so cute and different.

We used plaster of paris on a paper plate and sprinkled sand and what we collected when we were at the lighthouse. We also made all kinds of sea creatures and even made an awesome porthole (window on a boat). And we all drew an underwater picture. What a busy week. 