Last week we completed our unit on Landforms with creating dioramas! They turned out wonderful!

Here are some pictures:

Big Ideas: 

  • Canada is made up of many diverse regions and communities 
  • Inquiry through the arts creates opportunities for risk taking 
  • Skills can be developed through play 

Curricular Competencies: 

  • Explain how participation in outdoor activities supports connections with the community and environment 
  • Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions 
  • Engage in problem-solving experiences that are connected to place, story, cultural practices, and perspectives relevant to local First Peoples communities, the local community, and other cultures 
  • Incorporate First Peoples worldviews and perspectives to make connections to mathematical concepts 
  • Demonstrate curiosity and a sense of wonder about the world 
  • Experience and interpret the local environment 
  • Choose tools and materials 
  • Make a product using known procedures or through modelling of others 
  • Use trial and error to make changes, solve problems, or incorporate new ideas from self or others 

Learning Involved: 

  • Experience and interpret the local environment 
  • diverse features of the environment in other parts of Canada and the world 

First Peoples Principles of Learning: 

Learning ultimately supports the well-being of the self, the family, the community, the land, the spirits, and the ancestors 

  • Learning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential, and relational 

Core Competencies: 

Critical Thinking  

  • I can ask questions and consider options. I can use my observations, experience, and imagination to draw conclusions and make judgments 

Creative Thinking 

  • I get new ideas when I play and explore 

Communication 

  • I can share my ideas and questions 
  • I can listen to others 

Social Responsibility 

  • I am kind to others and our environment