Cold-blooded fish friends
Today, Maksim, Mari, Bradley, Sylvie and I played superheros – Superheros of the Sea!
Maksim was the angler fish who has a light on his head. “I’m the worst fish in town, with a light,” Maksim says.
Sylvie was the flying fish, the most beautiful fish in the sea. She has wings, and she flies gracefully over the water – up to 200 m!
“I’m the most beautiful fish,” says Sylvie, “and my friends, and my mom are flying fish, too.”
Bradley and Mari surprised everyone by joining up and forming a team… of piranhas. Luckily, piranhas never attack each other, and they always work in a gang. (Actually, anything that makes fish… I mean kids… into a team, is always a good choice for spending time together.) Here they are, swimming calmly, side by side…
The final superhero of the sea for today was the Provincial fish of BC. We looked at the amazing migration of the families of Pacific Salmon from the BC river estuaries, all the way up the coast to Alaska, to the winter feeding grounds, out to the Great Wide Ocean, before returning to their spawning grounds – jumping up waterfalls.
Since the kids ended up on a team, there was no one but me left to be the Pacific Salmon. There was no way I, a cold ocean fish, could keep up with the tropical sea and river fish on my superhero team. The kids were somewhat interested in the migration maps… but not really. They were more interested in feeding frenzy… on fishy pancakes. 🙂
