Tabitha
journeying
curriculum aspect of all day hike Just so you know it was the last hike of four. Still in parking lot where our Indigenous teaching assistant explained that it was "Saskatoon Berry Month" of course she told us the Okanagan word for it. The students know that is is one of the four food chiefs in Okanagan history/culture. We then each picked a few berries to eat. We only choose the dark purple-leaving the green and red ones to further ripen. We also only took a few to leave enough for the bears and birds.
Off we go-each class going a different way to meet at lunch and take other way down.
We saw and tasted waxed currants. We identified different plants. We stopped (and after adults had checked area for snakes we played an animal game. Students choose their animal and moved and hid like it.
Next stop-sketching time. Students choose what to sketch (and they had all carried their sketch books). Their were magnifers available if wanted.
On and up to lunch
Anyways it would be long to list all we did and learnt. Suffice to say we exceeded one of the themes of the newly revised BC curriculum "Connection to Place". The teacher shared with me the knowledge the students had picked up, the connections they were making (to previous trips, to science etc). I shared with her the development of physical literacy I had seen. How to go up and down hills, how to climb small rocks...
On the way down we stopped and watched a rattlesnake slither across our trail.
In my opinion a very wise use of school time.
Off we go-each class going a different way to meet at lunch and take other way down.
We saw and tasted waxed currants. We identified different plants. We stopped (and after adults had checked area for snakes we played an animal game. Students choose their animal and moved and hid like it.
Next stop-sketching time. Students choose what to sketch (and they had all carried their sketch books). Their were magnifers available if wanted.
On and up to lunch
Anyways it would be long to list all we did and learnt. Suffice to say we exceeded one of the themes of the newly revised BC curriculum "Connection to Place". The teacher shared with me the knowledge the students had picked up, the connections they were making (to previous trips, to science etc). I shared with her the development of physical literacy I had seen. How to go up and down hills, how to climb small rocks...
On the way down we stopped and watched a rattlesnake slither across our trail.
In my opinion a very wise use of school time.
