Salmon 🐟

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!

Tropical Rainforests

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

 

 

June’s beautiful picture of a rainforest

North American Wildlife

This week we have been looking at wildlife here in North America.

We learned about Mason Bees, 

 

Wolves, 🐺

and Beavers 

Beaver’s build such strong dams and lodges that even a Grizzly Bear can’t break in to a Beaver Lodge!!

So we had a go at building a Beaver Dam!

The best dam was built by Keegan and Shirley. Great job guys!

And then that afternoon Armaan went to the zoo and visited with a Cougar!

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

On Monday mornings for the next few weeks, we are going to be learning with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

At the beginning of our first class, everybody sat quietly for 5 minutes and this is some of what they heard:

 

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