Walking Wednesdays at Rouge Valley: 2016

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Canada 150 Tulip Planting

Rouge Valley had the privilege of taking part in the Canada 150 Tulip Planting program to celebrate Canada's 150th Birthday. We decided to plant the tulips in our school's front garden.

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.