Walking Wednesdays at Rouge Valley: Pictures from Tree Planting with Friends of the Rouge

Friday, June 6, 2014

Pictures from Tree Planting with Friends of the Rouge

Here are some pictures of the Grade 4 and Grade 5 classes on a field trip with Friends of the Rouge:

Hiking the Beare Wetland Conservation Area.

Mulch pile!

Finding a molted snake skin.

Finding a Garter snake in the mulch pile

Reptiles like the heat generated by the composting mulch.

An American toad.

Adding mulch to the base helps retain moisture for the saplings.

Planting wildflowers - Dense Blazing Stars.

What are we doing?

Each week students walk through their local community to a meadow on the edge of the Rouge River Valley. These “place based” environment activities are integrated with curriculum areas and meet the Ministry’s environmental policy found in Acting Today, Shaping Tomorrow.

Our philosophy is to engage students through experiential learning and to cover as wide a range of curriculum as possible. Using Walking Wednesdays as a jumping off point, we have covered Ministry curriculum expectations in Science, Social Studies, Mathematics, Language and the Arts.