Big Ideas:
- Language and text can be a source of creativity and joy.
- Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.
Curricular Competencies
COMPREHEND/CONNECT
- Understand how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning.
- Recognize an increasing range of text structures and how they contribute to meaning
- Assess and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact according to purpose, audience, and message.
- Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful literary and informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Assignments/Activities:
Language Arts curricular competencies are also covered in Social Studies.
Language Arts curricular competencies are also covered in Social Studies.
- Class read-aloud: All Thirteen. Students will participate in discussions and reflect on the story content.
- Parts of a story
- 40 Books Challenge - Students choose their own books to read at their level that meet the following criteria. There is no penalty for not completing the challenge. The purpose is only to introduce them to different genres of book and for them to love reading!
- Book Requirements:
- 10 Chapter-books of their choice
- 2 Graphic novels
- 4 First Nations literature
- 2 Award winners
- 6 Realistic fiction
- 2 Historical Fiction
- 2 Fantasy
- 2 Science Fiction
- 2 Mystery
- 6 Informational
- 2 Biography/autobiography
- Book Requirements:
Big Ideas:
- Data from the results of an experiment can be used to predict the theoretical probability of an event and to compare and interpret.
- Computational fluency and flexibility with numbers extend to operations with whole numbers and decimals.
Curricular Competencies:
REASONING/ANALYZING
- Estimate reasonably
- Visualize to explore mathematical concepts
- Develop, demonstrate, and apply mathematical understanding through play, inquiry, and problem solving
- Reflect on mathematical thinking
Assignments/Activities:
- Graphing
- Sketchnoting
- Place Values - thousandths to billions
- Number facts
- Factors and multiples
- Basic number operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
Big Ideas:
- Complex tasks require the acquisition of additional skills
Curricular Competencies:
- Empathize with potential users to find issues and uncover needs and potential design opportunities
- Identify criteria for success and any constraints
- Gather peer and/or user and/or expert feedback and inspiration
Assignments/Activities:
- Digital literacy
- Science experiments
- Growth mindset lessons
Big Ideas:
- Everyday materials are often mixtures.
- Multicellular organisms have organ systems that enable them to survive, reproduce, and interact within their environment.
Curricular Competencies:
QUESTIONING AND PREDICTING
QUESTIONING AND PREDICTING
- Make observations in familiar or unfamiliar contexts
- Make predictions about the findings of their inquiry
- Decide which variable should be changed and measured for a fair test
- Compare data with predictions and develop explanations for results
Assignments/Activities:
- Making solutions and mixtures
- Connecting the digestive and hormonal systems to healthy living
- Experiments that connect to various topics
Big Ideas:
- Systems of government vary in their respect for human rights and freedoms.
- Economic self-interest can be a significant cause of conflict among peoples and government.
Curricular Competencies:
- Differentiate between intended and unintended consequences of events, decisions, or developments, and speculate about alternative outcomes (cause and consequence)
- Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions
Assignments/Activities:
- Current Events
- Study of Residential Schools
- Run around the World - Researching countries around the world
- Read aloud - All Thirteen
- Class discussions
* Taught by Mrs. Storey
Big Idea:
- Listening and viewing with intent helps us acquire French.
Curricular Competencies:
- Use visuals or technology to assist in understanding and communicating
- Comprehend high-frequency vocabulary in slow, clear speech and other simple texts
Assignments/Activities:
- Label Classroom Items
- Halloween Poster
Big Ideas:
- Safe environments depend on everyone following safety rules.
- New experiences, both within and outside of school, expand our career skill set and options.
Curricular Competencies:
- Demonstrate safety skills in an experiential learning environment
- Appreciate the value of new experiences, innovative thinking and risk taking in broadening their career choices
Assignments/Activities:
- Group work:
- Breakout Tasks
- Various subject learning groups
- Group Projects
- Growth Mindset
- Classroom Economy
Big Ideas:
- Healthy choices influence our physical, emotional, and mental well-being
- Daily physical activity enables us to practice skillful movement and helps us develop personal fitness
Curricular Competencies:
PHYSICAL LITERACY
- Develop and apply a variety of fundamental movement skills in a variety of physical activities and environments
- Apply methods of monitoring and adjusting exertion levels in physical activity
- Participate daily in physical activity designed to enhance and maintain health components of fitness
- Analyze and describe the connections between eating, physical activity, and mental well-being
- Describe and assess strategies for promoting mental well-being, for self and others.
Assignments/Activities:
- Minor Games
- Volleyball
- Run Around the world - Every lap the students run around the field represents 250 km, and they "run" to various world landmarks until they come back to Fort Langley.
- Healthy foods and body systems
Big Ideas:
- Engaging in creative expression and experiences expands people’s sense of identity and community.
Curricular Competencies:
- Create artistic works collaboratively and as an individual, using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, experimentation, and purposeful play
- Explore relationships between identity, place, culture, society, and belonging through the arts
Assignments/Activities:
- Self Portraits
- Indigenous Art Education and Exploration
- Collaborative Class Art Project
Assignments/Activities:
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Taught by Mr.McAllister
Assignments/Activities:
- N/A