Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Being Brave!

As Mrs. Linde says... sometimes when learning we find we need to be brave and learn outside our comfort zone.  I can say that today I was definitely out of my comfort zone.  At one point before I was to get a dead fish out... I was thinking... hmmm why did I agree to do this????  Thanks to the cheering and support from our class I was able to take the risk and pick it out of the water.  Boy was it heavy!  That surprised me.  I had never lifted up such a large fish before.

What touched my heart?  My heart was touched to see and hear all the excitement the kids had about learning about the Salmon.  They were all so brave to touch the Salmon and it's body parts.

What surprised you? I was surprised that there were some Salmon eggs still left in the female.  Only about 12 out of the 4,000 she would have produced.  We could see the eye in the eggs!

I was also surprised that the insides were preserved so well and they didn't smell... boy the outside of the fish smelt BAD!

What made you think more deeply?  When one of the parents said, "Wow, look at all the budding Biologists!"  I wonder if any of the kids will remember today, many years down the road?  Who will become a Scientist? or Biologist? or an Environmentalist? or a Conservationist?

I was happy to have Mr. Bondi join us as he was a High School Biology Teacher for many years, and was able to explain what the body parts were and how they are used by the Salmon.  He was much better than the diagram I brought.

Here are some photos of Div. 18 exploring and being brave!

"What was I thinking????"

Gloves for everyone!

Hmmm.... ok this is gross!

Comparing and contrasting Male vs. Female

Look at those male teeth!

The gills are so fascinating! They feel so cool!

Boy it stinks!!!

Mr. Bondi just loves science!

Looking at all the body parts inside.

Hands on learning!

Look how precious a fish egg is.

Returning it back to nature.  We thanked the fish for helping our learning!
 

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Cross Country


Thank you to Mrs. Sinow and Ms. Wilson for all the hard work in organizing a school cross-country, especially since there is no District Cross Country this year!  Everyone loved getting a ribbon!!!  Thank you to all the parents who helped us out in the rain and then served the school hot lunch too!

We had all the grade one girls race and then all the grade one boys race!  Wow they are fast!!!

Enjoy some photos of our race.





Maika from our class coming in 1st!




Now for the boys...









Here is our class placements in the run!  Great effort everyone!!!

Girls:
1st Maika
4th Kimberly
7th Mabel
8th Breanna
9th Ellie
11th Sheridan
15th Aaliya
17th Addy
25th Taylor
Alitza
Syanne
Alethea
Lily

Boys:

6th Justin
8th Thomas
10th Chris
12th Colby
18th Darien
21st Ben
24th Luca
Liam
 



Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Salmon Run

First we cheered on our grade 6/7 cross country racers at Maple Ridge Park!  It was exciting to see them run and the grade 6/7s were impressed we came to cheer them on.
On your mark, get set, GO!

Here they come!

Here they go up the hill past where we explore!

Today we saw more Salmon spawning.  We even saw some swim very close to shore where our path is.  This was very exciting and we know the dead ones have layed their eggs as part of the life cycle.  
We have been asked by Mr. Bondi to collect small rocks to be part of the Story Pole Ceremony!  We started today...




Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Vacouver Library and Art Gallery


What a wonderful day we had!  Everyone did a great job of listening and staying together.  A huge thank you to all the parents who came on the bus and helped supervised our kids.

Here we are walking to the Vancouver Library...
Sketching the Coliseum structure of the Vancouver Library.





Getting to explore some books in the Library... we got to read the pictures and try to figure out what the story is about as they were in a different language (How cool is that?)




Then off to explore the Art Gallery!














Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Don't forget to check our weekly photo page!

The Love of Reading!

   When they say a picture says a thousand words...  I just wanted to share how our class loves books and to read images and words to each other!