{"id":40500,"date":"2022-05-04T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T18:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/?p=40500"},"modified":"2022-08-18T11:23:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T18:23:55","slug":"students-and-salmon-howay-learning-at-hume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/students-and-salmon-howay-learning-at-hume\/","title":{"rendered":"Students and salmon: Howay learning at Hume"},"content":{"rendered":"

For some of the excited kindergarten to grade 2 students from FW Howay, the bus ride alone had them all aflutter.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Afterall, it was a real fieldtrip: a first since the pandemic. And it included a school bus ride! All for a morning of learning about and engaging in nature at Hume Park … particularly centred around the release of young salmon fry that the some of the students had been caring for and monitoring in class.<\/p>\n

To start the four classes gathered in a circle, as Ms. Roz (the Indigenous Support Worker at Howay) blessed the event and the fish with a smudging, and then led the group in a salmon song.<\/p>\n

Then, divided into learning and activity stations, they rotated through … eagerly waiting for their turn to venture into the shallow sections of the Brunette River and release the fry, one cup at a time, into the water (assisted by Mrs. Martins, with Ms. Roz drumming and singing along with each released salmon).<\/p>\n

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The kids laughed as they clambered down the little embankment. They waited patiently, learning about how to take a bit of the water into the cup, to help transition the little swimmers into the river. And then they each took a turn participating, waving goodbye as the fry quickly swam off.<\/p>\n

In the end, it was a beautiful spring day, filled with excited young voices piping in answers to the questions being asked … marking the end of a class project, a memorable moment along the learning journey of some students, and the start of an adventure for a bucket full of salmon fry.<\/p>\n

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