Raising Salmon

Do you remember when we got our chinook?

Hello Grades 4 & 5,

Do you remember when we first got our salmon? Terri from REAPS brought them into our classroom, and we watched 100 eyed-eggs float down into the redd in our tank. They have grown so big and soon we will release them in Prince George. Let’s share some of your summary sentences about salmon here. (We’ll share some more with our friends on twitter.)

Cheers
Mrs. G

• When salmon hatch they are weird looking, transparent skinned fish with a yolk pouch.
• When fry leave their nest, they eat anything that floats.
• Trees provide shade for the fish in the stream.
• The stream is safer than the ocean, but there are dangers like floods and animals.
• When a male migrates to the ocean, he gets sharp teeth.
• The salmon eats a lot to make fat for fuel.
• A salmon memorizes the scent of its home.
• A chinook might swim over 2000 miles out to sea.
• Salmon live in return to fresh water to lay their eggs.
• The female salmon swishes her tail to move the gravel to create a nest for her eggs.
• When a female salmon is spawning, the male does a dance over the female’s back and then he fertilizes the eggs.
• Some of the rivers that salmon live in are drying up
• People help the salmon by building ladders over dams
• In hatcheries the fry are tagged

April is Poetry Month

Hello Grades 4 & 5,

This morning I introduced you to a new website, PicLits. You created some beautiful cinquains, and I would love to share some of them here.

Ross wrote about the ocean.

See the full PicLit at PicLits.com

Jaya shared a water poem.

See the full PicLit at PicLits.com

Ethan talked about bees.

See the full PicLit at PicLits.com

Aziza remembers….

See the full PicLit at PicLits.com
 

I don’t have room to put all of your poems here, but remember you have a gallery at PicLits now. Share them all through April. It’s poetry month!

Cheers
Mrs. G

Use Your Own Energy

Hello Everybody,

Our classroom has been having a lot of fun participating in the Canadian Energy Diet Challenge. We submitted our script for a video about saving energy and we won a flip video camera. We are now in the final round of the video competition.

We have a special request from our class. Could you please watch the following video?

•  http://energydiet.canadiangeographic.ca/home/video_gallery/115/mrs-gammon #CEDC
  
• Each view equals one vote.
• One like on facebook equals one vote.
• (Votes count towards 25% of the final mark)
• The winner gets technology money for their school.

So please watch us on your phone, your computer, your ipod, etc. and like us on facebook.

Thanks for your help.

Grade 4 & 5 & Mrs. Gammon

Taking Third

Hello Grades 4 & 5,

We have our third place winner in the Great Canadian Mail Race! Congratulations to Crescent Park Elementary in Dawson Creek. Your letter was the third one to cross the line, and we really enjoyed reading all of your comments. Thanks for writing to us.

Cheers
Mrs. G

Skyping this Week

Hello Grades 4 & 5, We have 2 exciting Skypes this week. On Monday morning, we will be Skyping with Terri from Reaps. You’ll remember that Terri was the lady who delivered our chinook eggs. This time she will be doing a fish dissection. I am so excited about this. Terri will do an excellent demonstration and she will also take time to ask and answer questions. On Tuesday morning, we will be Skyping with Mrs. French’s class again, and this time it’s their turn to read a story to us. The title of the book is When Sophie Gets Angry – Really, Really Angry, and the author is Molly Bang. I can’t wait to hear them read the story! We’ll go to the NorthernMuses blog this week to comment. I am looking forward to reading your reflections and the reflections of our friends in Vanderhoof. You can read the book online at Childrens’ Library Books. This book has received a Caldecott Honor in 2000 and the Charlotte Zolotow Award in 2000. We will be learning and sharing so many new things this week. I am so looking forward to both these Skype sessions. Have fun! Cheers Mrs. G