{"id":285014,"date":"2025-07-18T14:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isnedu.org\/?post_type=shimauchi-campus&p=285014"},"modified":"2025-07-18T14:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:25:38","slug":"canyon-our-big-blue-planet-july-14-to-17","status":"publish","type":"shimauchi-campus","link":"https:\/\/isnedu.org\/en\/shimauchi-campus\/canyon-our-big-blue-planet-july-14-to-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Canyon: Our Big Blue Planet ~July 14 to 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Big blue oceans, seas and rivers are all homes of the amazing animals that Canyon has been exploring. In this unit, our first line of inquiry is “Animals live in different places”. Ocean habitat is our first stop. We created an ocean right in class! We started off discussing how seas and oceans are salty. The best way to understand this is to taste it, and we did! Table salt in water on our palms. How does it taste? Salty!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Each student picked up a sea animal, say its name and dropped it into the ocean! What colour is the ocean? We learned that colours can be mixed to get a different colour. Blue and yellow makes green! Canyon has been building their vocabulary on sea animals with real photographs on the IB wall, videos and popular children books like the Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had a visit from a Junior High school student and he read us a book “The Big Blue Sea”. The visiting student spent the day playing with Canyon and having his meals with us. We encouraged Canyon to eat up all their food then you will grow big and tall like this big brother! We picked some ripe tomatoes from the schoolyard and had them for lunch too. Sweet! Good healthy eating, Canyon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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