What is a gar?

This week, our word family is the -ar family.  I had a boy a few years ago tell me gar was a word.  I, knowing the truth, told him it wasn't.  He proved me wrong.  I introduced the word this year.

What you see in the video is the class grabbing dictionaries left and right to figure it out...do they know yet?  Nope!  Maybe after reading this post, they will...(by the way, it was hat day.)

According to the dictionary, a gar is "any of various fishes with a long body like that of a pike and long narrow jaws" (from wordcentral.com)