Explorers Unleashed: G3 Blog

For our final Visual Arts and Language Arts units of the year, Grade 3 have been exploring how personal/family histories, traditions and values are shared through stories. We explored narrative art like cave paintings, relief carving and pictographs. Learners also began preparing for a live storytelling event under the title "An event or moment where you learned something important about yourself". All stories are true (as remembered and confirmed by the storyteller), prepared in advance and told live in front of a small audience without notes: From Brandon: My First day learning to ski. From Aruto: Running towards you. From Aira: The Philippines. From Hiro: Mother's Day.

To develop our understanding of shapes (as well as the tools we use to create them) - Grade 3 is exploring some artists who create with shapes and lines: Frank Stella Piet Mondrian Jim Lambie Inspired by Jim Lambie's instillation works (showcased in the Tate Modern for example) some Gr.3 learners developed their own instillation piece! Their completed piece is call F A N C Y T A B L E and it is on show in the DSKI entrance way now.

Our second unit for this year is on  How We Organize Ourselves . Grade 3 and 4 are exploring the Central Idea that  p eople share their responsibilities in communities through offering goods and services in marketplaces . Our second and third lines of inquiry with this Transdisciplinary Theme are into how goods are produced and how goods and services are exchanged . We begun by asking the question "Where do our goods come from?" Grade 3 watched a Farm to Table video where we were introduced to Olivia - a shopkeeper with an empty store! As Olivia journeyed to the sources of her fruits, vegetables, milk products and meats we tried to solve the mystery of why the farmers had not delivered their products to Olivia and we learned about farm goods. After this we began to look at goods not sourced locally. Grade 3 learners brought in products from home and used a barcode tracking website to figure out where they were produced. This led to a discussion on imports and ...