The Beauty of Fall

I have the privilege of attending a 6-part teacher training series called, "Land-Based Indigenous Education Professional Learning," where the goal is to build relationships with the land through Indigenous pedagogies designed to support student learning.  I shared a bit of what I learned with the class today, then we decided to take advantage of the weather and head outdoors to the treed area behind the playground. 

Students were tasked with finding beautiful leaves and were amazed at what they could see when they looked closely. And before long the lady bugs must have wondered what we were up to because all of a sudden they were everywhere!  Once we'd observed the lady bugs for awhile we came back in to use oil pastels and recreate our leaves in our sketchbooks - with beautiful results.  Stay tuned for more outdoor learning throughout the year!