We have been learning about the season of Fall and many of the changes that happen at this time of the year. As a part of science, our unit of study has been about the life cycle of the sockeye salmon. Barry the Brave Salmon has been teaching us all about his life as he went through his different stages of development. During his travel back, he begins to change and he notices lots of his other friends are beginning to change too. They are all changing to a bright red colour with green heads and green tails. Wow! And the male salmon are all getting big humps on their backs and their mouths are becoming more hooked with sharp teeth. What a transformation! Finally, back at his home, Barry the Brave Salmon finds a mate, his mate digs a redd and lays her eggs. Then Barry fertilizes the eggs with milt and then they carefully cover the eggs with small rocks by swishing their tails around. They don't want any predators - like birds or bigger fish - to eat the eggs. They want the life cycle to continue! Adams River Salmon Run What a fantastic day at the salmon run! It's always an excellent way to consolidate our learning by being able to see what we've been learning about in the classroom by going out and seeing things in our world around us. We had beautiful weather and a great opportunity to see many spawning salmon. Thanks to all our parent volunteers! Westmount Salmon Run We took our learning from our field trip to Adams River, and created our own salmon run mural in our classroom. All of the children made fingerprint salmon eggs for our redds. Then they cut out and painted their own salmon. Some decided to make males and others chose to make females. After we painted them, we added them to our mural. Our finished mural: Salmon Habitat A number of children have enjoyed exploring at our Discovery Table. Using "loose parts", the children had a chance to create salmon habitat and redds.
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AuthorI'm Mrs. MacDonald. Welcome to a window into our kindergarten classroom. My goal of this blog is to give you an opportunity to see some of the things that we are doing at school. Enjoy! Archives
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