This week, we completed our work on our Finding Muchness project. The students created a piece of watercolour art and selected a pose for a photograph they felt best represented them. The students then pieced these together to create a final work of art to represent who they and who they aspire to be. Our focus was on the learning outcome; select visuals, print and other media to add interest and to engage the audience.
Despite the rain, the grade fours had a fantastic time on our field trip to Heritage Park. It was wonderful to experience all of our learning in Social Studies first hand. We sheltered from the rain in a tipi, felt beaver pelts as we learned about the fur trade and rode a train like the ones that helped to make settlement in the West possible. Seeing the first settler homes, the "soddies", homes that housed families with sixteen children and sandstone buildings helped the students to better understand what life was like for early settlers. Most are happy that they are able to go to a school with hundreds of students and one grade per classroom rather than a one room schoolhouse of the past!
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