Salmon Eggs– Our eggs are growing and developing well. As you can see in the photos below, the eye of the salmon embryos is quite easy to see through the transparent membrane of the egg. Salmon eggs are soft and squishy which allows oxygen particles in the water to pass through the egg membrane to the growing embryo and also helps keep the shell from cracking if rolled against gravel or under gravel. We have estimated our eggs to hatch sometime between March 3rd and March 11….stay tuned!
We recently read facts about salmon eggs and students learned some of the following:
- eggs need cool, flowing, fresh water
- eggs are very fragile and can die from: predators (bears, raccoons, fish, birds), pollution, changes in water temperature, flow or level, trampling from dogs or people walking in streams, silt in water (smothering eggs) and diseases.
- a chum salmon mother can lay around 2500 eggs and, on average, only 2 will grow to be adult salmon and will return to spawn (lay/fertilize eggs).
- salmon embryos feed off a yolk sac while inside the egg (and once they are hatched as alevin as well)
- eggs are hidden under gravel while in the stream and once hatched, will stay in the gravel for protection
- only 1 in 10 eggs will survive to hatch into an alevin
- salmon are cold blooded
Ask your child what they remember about chum salmon eggs!
Hip Hop- The students had around 8 lessons where they learned hip hop moves and incorporated these moves into complete dances! It was amazing to see the growth, dedication to learning and energy the students put into their dancing! I am unable to post the video, as there are other classes involved, but I hope that you were each able to attend a performance and see the fabulous dance these students completed to a compilation of SpongeBob songs! Such a fantastic two weeks with this hip hop community of learners!
Dance part 1 (click link to see video)
Story Workshop- along with the assistance of Ms. Yee, our class has been working on improving and developing their skills writing complete and detailed stories. Students worked in pairs and were given 5 photos to organize into a story and then orally tell the story to the group. Students needed to focus on adding the following elements:
- setting
- characters
- problem
- feeling
- plan
- action
- consequence
- ending
- end feeling
Ask your child what story they would write/ tell using these 5 pictures!
Creations- I will start trying to add photos/videos and explanations of creative builds, marble tracks, cardboard creations, domino tracks and more on a separate page. Look along the top of our webpage for CREATIONS and I will be updating as much as I can! Check out the domino track and lincoln block cabin on the page right now! (hopefully the video link works…..I’m learning….).