Grade 4 Month 1 The Wonder of Local Geography
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CA$44.00
CA$44.00
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Local geography and history begin with the self. Mapmaking starts with the child’s bedroom, the neighbourhood, and familiar daily routes. This expands to encompass the history and natural landscape of your region.
This purchase is for 1 month of curriculum and includes access to our members-only area with supporting documents, videos, resources and community.
Curriculum Areas/Learning Outcomes
Language Arts: Concept: Exploring stories and other texts help us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.
Connection: You will read or tell the creation story, Indigenous stories and the settler’s stories to your child. Your child will build verbal language skills and deepen connection and understanding through recalling and engaging in discussion of previous day’s story and lesson content.
Concept: Using language in creative and playful ways helps us understand how language works.
Connection: Your child will develop their own writing skills. They will work on written summaries, dictionary skills, structures, features and conventions of written language including paragraph writing, with attention to spelling, punctuation and grammar. Your child will work with oral features of language, recalling and discussing lesson material to build deeper engagement with the subject.
Social Studies: Concept: The pursuit of valuable natural resources has played a key role in changing the land, people, and communities of Canada.
Connection: Your child will hear about the natural resources of the region you live in and begin to understand how this has changed the land and the people. Your child will gain knowledge of the importance of care and respect for the animal world.
Concept Interactions between First Peoples and Europeans lead to conflict and cooperation, which continues to shape Canada’s identity.
Connection: Your child will learn the stories that form the foundation of the Indigenous community.
They will build an understanding of the conflicting values and how industry grew from natural resources.
Math: Concept: Development of computational fluency and multiplicative thinking requires analysis of patterns and relations in multiplication and division.
Connection: Your child will practice multiplication tables using beads, if needed. Your child will be reviewing math concepts in their workbook and through mental math games.
Science: Concept: All living things sense and respond to their environment.
Connection: Your child will learn about Indigenous plant medicine and about the qualities and characteristics of various animals, and build respect and reverence.
Connection: You will read or tell the creation story, Indigenous stories and the settler’s stories to your child. Your child will build verbal language skills and deepen connection and understanding through recalling and engaging in discussion of previous day’s story and lesson content.
Concept: Using language in creative and playful ways helps us understand how language works.
Connection: Your child will develop their own writing skills. They will work on written summaries, dictionary skills, structures, features and conventions of written language including paragraph writing, with attention to spelling, punctuation and grammar. Your child will work with oral features of language, recalling and discussing lesson material to build deeper engagement with the subject.
Social Studies: Concept: The pursuit of valuable natural resources has played a key role in changing the land, people, and communities of Canada.
Connection: Your child will hear about the natural resources of the region you live in and begin to understand how this has changed the land and the people. Your child will gain knowledge of the importance of care and respect for the animal world.
Concept Interactions between First Peoples and Europeans lead to conflict and cooperation, which continues to shape Canada’s identity.
Connection: Your child will learn the stories that form the foundation of the Indigenous community.
They will build an understanding of the conflicting values and how industry grew from natural resources.
Math: Concept: Development of computational fluency and multiplicative thinking requires analysis of patterns and relations in multiplication and division.
Connection: Your child will practice multiplication tables using beads, if needed. Your child will be reviewing math concepts in their workbook and through mental math games.
Science: Concept: All living things sense and respond to their environment.
Connection: Your child will learn about Indigenous plant medicine and about the qualities and characteristics of various animals, and build respect and reverence.
Curriculum Overview
As with all Daily Wonder lessons, our approach is to begin where the child is, to make a meaningful connection to the curriculum material. In this case, we begin with the child’s most familiar environment, their home, and specifically their bedroom, and expand outwards to include the region you live in. The 9-10-year-old child now has the capacity for creating a “bird’s eye view” mental image. This inner picture is worked with, so that the child can begin developing map-making skills throughout the unit. While building up these particular skills, the children are guided to build an understanding of the traditional Indigenous lifestyle, values and practical arts.
Parent Preparation
Daily Wonder has members all over the world! This means that when it comes to learning about your local region, there is some parent preparation required. There are two geography units in Grade 4. This first one covers very local geography, history and traditional Indigenous values and lifestyle. The second unit, at the end of the school year, expands to your province/state and will include the history of the treatment of Indigenous people on the land that you live on. Please see the Monthly Overview for details on what you need to prepare.