Our classroom journeys to learn and explore ...
Providing rich learning opportunities. Learners take ownership by discovering and developing their potential, passions and gifts. As life-long learners and deep, critical thinkers, they are able to make significant contributions within a complex and changing world.
It is important that students should always work with authentic ideas.
Providing rich learning opportunities. Learners take ownership by discovering and developing their potential, passions and gifts. As life-long learners and deep, critical thinkers, they are able to make significant contributions within a complex and changing world.
It is important that students should always work with authentic ideas.
Outdoor Connections
the value of getting students outside and connected to the outdoors seems more important than ever.
Check back again to see how grade 5 students do a GeoInquiry about the naturalization space at our school.
How are Canadians Connected to Water?
A year long Grade 5 study into how people of today and the past are influenced, impacted and custodians of water. Students created an interactive teaching exhibit to showcase their chosen water issue.
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The students in Grade 5 participated in STEAM challenges to build skills in communication, cooperation, critical thinking, and much more!
Skills were used for a final design task connecting to our years studies about water. |
Inspiring Landscapes of Canada
A grade 5 study of the geography of Canada through the Arts.
Zeb Hogan
Educator-Explorer Exchange
Educator-Explorer Exchange
What happens when National Geographic Educators and Explorers connect?
a meaningful connection that inspires students!
How is Happiness and Environmental Stewardship
Connected in Bhutan?
Connected in Bhutan?
Students in Bhutans share how their school is a green school and how their country is known as the country for National Happiness.
How Does Art Create Positive Change?
Arts Commons -Open Minds
How Grade 5 students spend a week downtown visiting and learning about art. Inspired we created our own art instillation in our school to create positive change.
Where is the Mathematics in Snowflake Formation?
Connecting to our grade 5 water studies, we looked into the mathematics of snowflakes and made these beautiful designs.
Art - Science Data Representations
A grade 5 class represents science through art to better understand data.
Community Stories
Through a Public Arts Grant, community member participated in sharing their stories that were created into a fence mural. Schools in the neighbourhood, after school programs, senior's groups and community artists all participated.
Students created a map of where in the community some of the stories took place (including thunder mountain and turtle hill)
Energy Conservation
Students in Grade 5 participate in the Royal Canadian Geographical and Shell Energy Challenge.
The Canadian Diet Energy Challenge is to reduce the amount of energy students use through classroom and home challenges.
"WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF FOOD WASTE?"
A grade 3/4 study of food and how it impacts us globally and locally.
We looked at: "What is the impact of food waste?"
What Does It Mean to Belong?
A Quilt Study
A Quilt Study
a grade 1-2 combined classroom's study of quilts and how they can create belonging.
A Backyard Bird Study
A Grade 1-2 combined classroom's study of birds for the year by connecting with experts
and doing field studies.
Park Study: What can we Discover in Our Backyards?
A grade 1-2 study of our local park. We visited the park for a full day, each month and observed the changes we saw.
The Art of Jazz
Grade 1-2 Students explored Jazz music. We used different art mediums to represent the sounds of Jazz. We had a jazz band visit us and help us create our own school jazz song. We then created a book that that has poems about different instruments and sounds.
"If you’re writing a medium or long section of text, break it up with more than one paragraph for better readability.”
- SOMEONE ONCE SAID
"A journal is a place for thinking and feeling, for pausing in the moment, the image, the idea, the place you occupy..... grab images, words, drawings, pressed leaves, dirt, anything that impresses you and will help you remember the time, place and events you are experiencing and creatively get them into your journal" -William Hammond.
"A journal is a place for thinking and feeling, for pausing in the moment, the image, the idea, the place you occupy..... grab images, words, drawings, pressed leaves, dirt, anything that impresses you and will help you remember the time, place and events you are experiencing and creatively get them into your journal" -William Hammond.