Walking Wednesdays at Rouge Valley: Hillside

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Friday, April 14, 2017

Grade 2 Field Trip to Hillside

Mr. Daffern's Grade 2 Class went tree planting and mulching with instructors from Hillside and Friends of the Rouge.

Making friends with some early spring birds on our hike.

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.