Grade 3 Month 7 The Wonder of Farming
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CA$44.00
CA$44.00
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Students will hear about life on the farm including details about soil, compost, animal husbandry, plant foods, and the relationship to water and sun. Aspects of sharing food will be explored.
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Curriculum Areas/Learning Outcomes
Science: Concept: Living things are diverse, can be grouped, and interact in their ecosystems.
Connection: Your child will hear all about the organisms, creatures and plants that live on the farm. They’ll learn about the relationship between these living things and their environment.
Language Arts: Concept: Stories and other texts help us learn about ourselves, our families, and our communities.
Connection: Stories about the farm will support your child’s understanding about where their food comes from and who the people are that create the system of food economy.
Social Studies: Concept: Indigenous societies throughout the world value the well-being of the self, the land, spirits, and ancestors.
Connection: Your child will come to see the connection between what the land provides and the health of ourselves, our family, our community and all those before us.
Connection: Your child will hear all about the organisms, creatures and plants that live on the farm. They’ll learn about the relationship between these living things and their environment.
Language Arts: Concept: Stories and other texts help us learn about ourselves, our families, and our communities.
Connection: Stories about the farm will support your child’s understanding about where their food comes from and who the people are that create the system of food economy.
Social Studies: Concept: Indigenous societies throughout the world value the well-being of the self, the land, spirits, and ancestors.
Connection: Your child will come to see the connection between what the land provides and the health of ourselves, our family, our community and all those before us.
Curriculum Overview
The Wonder of Farming will be the backdrop for lessons on what builds our food economy. You'll begin the story of the farm in general (the whole), then go into the parts, beginning with the soil, compost, vegetables, fruit, and end with a look at the contributions from the animals. You’ll be invited to take field trips each week to get some practical experience at a farm. You’ll work with your child on creatively expressing all that they learn about the farm including two central themes: the well-being of the land and the self, and the diversity of living things on the farm that are dependent on their ecosystem. DW units are designed to provide you with some flexibility and therefore will cover all curriculum in the first 15 days of plans. The final 5 days, the Flex Week, will be a project that you can choose to skip or complete in the way that fits your schedule. As you go through the month, remember that your child will need to be working on their math foundation muscles and should be taking 15-30 minutes a day to work in a leveled math workbook. There will be math facts questions for you to use every second day. These questions are taken from the list of most difficult arithmetic facts presented in the book “Making Math Meaningful” by Fabrie, Gottenbos and York. You will also need to provide about 30 minutes of reading time each day. Your child will get time to write this month but feel free to have them keep a journal as well. For the project week your child will be invited to create a diorama of a farm. For your story line, you can use the stories of the farm that are summarized in the lesson plan, or you can continue with an additional story at the end of the lesson using your Old Testament stories or Legends.