How To Post a Comment

Hi everyone!  I'm so glad that we're getting followers and lots of comments!  I've had a few questions asking how to post a comment, so I've left detailed instructions below.  Students should follow these instructions.  The reason I would like these comments to be vague is for Internet safety, which Mrs. Berry has taught us lots about!


1. Click comments at the bottom of this post.
2. When it has the drop down menu, choose Name/URL.
3. When it asks for your name, please just put the first letter of your homeroom teacher (H for Hendrickson), and then your number.  For instance, if I was number 27 in my homeroom, my name on my comments would be H27.  Leave URL blank.
4. Write your answer!


If you're a parent, follow the same steps as above, and then put "parent" at the end of the number.


If you're a classroom, just write the name of your classroom.


If you're a staff member at our school, feel free to put your name.

Only the Good Die Young

As with everything that comes to and leaves this earth, some of our fish didn't make it through the day.  I have pictures of the passed on fish, which is neat because it shows different stages of development.  The black dots are the eyes.  It's important to get these fish out of the water soon because their decomposition will release harmful nitrates and nitrites into the water.

They've Hatched!!!

We now have little alevin swimming around!  It's hard to see, but those little grey lines are the fish, and the orange part is their yolk sack.  The yolk sack is their food source for the time being.  As you can see, they are still in their egg basket, but as soon as they absorb their yolk sack they will swim out of the basket and we will begin feeding them their regular food.  At this time, they are tiny!  Each little head is probably the size of the head of the pencil.  Come and see our new pets!



First Water Change

FYI - I did the first water change today. I'm starting to realize how much work this project is going to be. I hope I have all of my student's support!

They're Here!

I picked up our 200 trout eggs at Sportsman's Warehouse in Lexington at 6:30 last night, and they arrived safely at school this morning.  The temperature of the bag they were in was 34 degrees, and the temperature of the tank water was 51.2 degrees, so we had to acclimate the temperature of the eggs to the temperature of the water first, which took a few hours.

Next, our fifth grade classes tested the temperature, pH, ammonia level, nitrites, and nitrates in the tank and the bag to make sure that the levels in both were very similiar, which they were.  So, finally, we got to introduce our new eggs to their home!  We learned about structures and functions of animals and described the structures of the fish eggs (yolk sac and trout) and each structure's function.

Finally, our fourth grade classes learned about living, non living, and once living things by removing the white eggs that were dead from the egg basket.  The dead eggs will decompose and cause the nitrite and nitrate levels to increase, which is dangerous to the fish.

PHOTOS WILL BE COMING SOON!!!