Temperate rainforests exist where the temperature is never very hot or very cold, and there is a lot of rain.

This is Elan’s beautifully completed worksheet, from a recent class about Spring and plants. Well done!

Today in class we learned about the

Life Cycle of Salmon

Salmon are very important to the West Coast of Canada. Salmon are eaten by humans, animals and birds – in their thousands! They also provide vital nutrients to the forests in this area.

Salmon always return to the river in which they were born to lay their own eggs. In the meantime, they may swim thousands of miles across the ocean over a number of years.

Once they return to the river of their birth, they undertake an arduous journey up the river to the spawning area. This may be just a few miles, or thousands of miles; and they don’t eat the whole time!

Once there, they will lay and fertilise a few thousand eggs before dying.

We watched these three videos in class:

 

At the website British Columbia.com you can find an excellent list of where and when you can watch salmon spawning in BC.

In the weekly email for class, I included a file you can print out to build your own Salmon Lifecycle chart.

Your finishesd chart should look like this:

 

You may like to colour the pictures on your chart!

In class we watched a number of clips from this David Attenborough film about rainforests and the amazing ways in which the animals who live in them have adapted to survive and thrive

We also watched this video about Sloths

and this video about Giant Anteaters

At the end of the week we watched this short video which shows us why tropical rainforests are so vital to life on Earth