Growing Up!

      Our salmon that  we raised from little eggs are now 3 inches long! 

They have finally leveled up to the last food size! The food size is 2.5 mm. 

The salmon caretakers feed them a pinch a day but before that they suck up water. They do this to clean the water. The cute thing is the fish recognise that they are changing the water and they swim up to the top, ready to be fed. 

The Fish at their current size 

Caretakers

 They pump out some water so the food can come out also their poop. Their  have to suck it out with there mouths and the fish are scared of the sucker. Because

 it can kill them they suck out the stuff into a bucket then dump it into the sink so they don't have to do it with there hands. After they do that they have to feed them but first they dump more water in because they sucked all of that water out. They need to big buckets because they suck  all that water along with the poop. They dip an ammonia test strip in the water to test the level. They have a sheet of paper to write if something happened to the fish, like if one died or if the ammonia levels are wrong.

The salmon caretakers are 

refilling the water in this picture.

In this picture, they are testing the ammonia. 

It was safe.

She is sucking out the water the get the suction going.

 They are sucking out the dirty water but a fish got stuck!
They had to lift it up, let the fish go, and go to another spot.

Anatomy of salmon

External Anatomy - the features outside of a salmon, like the tail fin, also known as the caudal fin. The caudal fin helps them steer like a steering wheel, it helps them swim by propelling them through the water.

 Internal Anatomy - features on the inside of a salmon, like the swim bladder. The swim bladder helps the salmon float in the water.

Salmon Update

Here is  another update on the salmon last week on our salmon were were barely exceeding 1 1/2 inches

and now they are about 1 3/4 inches (The top pic is from last week the bottom is this week) they are swimming more toward the top of the tank because they are bigger and stronger.    

April 19, 2017                                                                                       

                                                                                              April 12, 2017 

The Salmon's Natal Stream

A natal stream is their stream where they are born. It´s important because when fish are in their natal stream  they leave to the sea water. But then they go back to their natal stream to lay eggs, where hungry bears are sometimes waiting to eat them!

We're Making an ABC Book

Our whole class is making a book about our salmon. We are making an ABC Book About Salmon. An ABC book is where you have information about the topic for each letter. For example, I am letter G. I can either do Great Lakes or Gravel. I think I want to do great lakes. Anneke is letter I, Marylee is letter M and she is doing migration, Thomas is letter T.

Our class is making a Salmon ABC book!
First, before we were assigned our letters, we looked at examples from the library, and all my classmates got a different book. While we were looking for examples for our ABC salmon book,
and we were using sticking sticky notes in the books for text features. Here are two books we looked at:

How we picked how to do our ABCs book -
(1) Previewed books.
(2) Picked a format.
(3) Picked what letter each student is going to do. After every kid got a letter, we started to research.
(4) Researching: We all got a Chromebook and started to research our letter. We went to Google to get information. We also looked in books.
(5)When we got all our information we made a slide on it on our Google drive and shared it with our teachers.
(6) We made a rubric for everyone to follow so the book pages will all look the same.
(7) We had to revise some pages, change some font and add some things to some pages.


We're still working on it but we're getting close to being done! 

The Blackout

The blackout was creepy for the fish and us! On the dreadful day of March 15, 2017... The wind was so strong... it knocked out the power... The fish were at serious risk...First the lights were flickering...Then at exactly 1:36 pm the power shut down completely everything stopped even the fish equipment. Then a giant tree mercilessly crashed to the ground almost crushing the school. The fish were at serious risk of so many things if the power was out for longer. For example, the oxygen level could of dropped or the water could get too dirty because the filter would not be working.
Over spring break there will be an automatic feeder so people won't have to come from where ever they are to come back and feed the fish. The automatic feeder it is battery powered so if there's a blackout it won't shut down.



By: Thomas Paplawsky and Marylee Wisner