“T To enhance the community, I will start with a school garden. Ā There are endless opportunities to learn, teach and collaborate there.Ā Hands-on gardening experience is an excellent way for students to learn responsibility and patience and appreciate the importance of nature in our community. “K As I begin …
“T Today, we explored the outdoors at the Pacific Spirit Park through our five senses. We saw layers of vegetation; we heard sounds of nature and artificial; we smelled the scent of trees; we tasted the bitterness of huckleberries; we felt the breeze on our skin. By immersing ourselves in …
“T I did an Inquiry unit on community helpers (and started with Elders). Then I did school community, and started with the custodial engineer – need to build respect and appreciation for these helpers. Everyone wrote a letter to a community-helper and wrote a thank-you letter. Community was very connected …
“T Today’s visit to the Beaty Diversity Museum reminds me of the term holistic community, an ecosystem in which different species are related and interdependent. When Jackie explained the sturgeon harpoon knowledge web, the key message that resonated with me was, “When a link in this web is broken, it’s …
“T Being an overseas settler, I think the Community Field Experience (CFE) at UBC Orchard Garden was the perfect place for me to start my land-based education journey. Throughout the CFE, I explored that there are endless opportunities to learn and teach in the Orchard Garden, or for that matter, …
Topic – The role of Risky Play and Nature Play on empathy and community building. This week I did some research into the literature on Risky Play and Nature Play, and found some fascinating links with empathy and community building. Risky Play is defined by Ellen Sandseter (a Norwegian academic …
This week we were considering what opportunities children have to care for their environments. I took a moment to really learn the benefits of children caring for your environment. Often times, gardening is pitched as a hobby for adults but through reading an article on the blog āMontessori Natureā I …
“A community garden not only provides harvest but is able to create a relational and learning space for children, youth, and parents”, is the epitaph that bookends Datta’s work. Providing children an educational opportunity to practice gardening and growing consistently can reap benefits that far exceed any single outdoor lesson. …
This week as a group we were reflecting on the idea of what opportunities do children have to care for their environments? I connected this question to a reading āinfusing Caring for the Environment with Our Children, Leaders of the Futureā by Kathryn Jackman Murphy. This reading is important as …
This week we all chose to explore the question “What opportunities do children have to care for their environments/community?” through reading different relevant resources. I read the book “Seeds of Change: planting a path to peace” by Jen Cullerton Johnson, published in 2010 (https://www.amazon.ca/Seeds-Change-Wangaris-Gift-World/dp/160060367X). This is an amazing, and beautifully …
