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Fall/Early Winter Place-making Rhythm |
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Our curriculum is based on placemaking and community. We learn a lot about what it means to be from the Pacific Northwest and what it means to be "me". And how that all comes together in COMMUNITY.
Fall/Early Winter Curriculum Themes By Week
August 28th @ 6:30PM Mandatory Orientation
Week I (9/8- 9/12) : Please bring in family picture collage!
*Getting to know you and connecting
*How we take care of our school
*Personalizing the space
-Paint Collage
-take pictures @ school for collage
-Gather Veggies
-hang pictures of family and friends
-paint folders
-share stories and play listening game
-practice fire drill
Week II (15-19) & Week III: (9/22- 9/26): Sat., Sept. 20th Veggie BBQ Equinox Potluck @ MV 3PM
*Equinox has arrived
-nature walks
-community clean up project
-collect fall treasures
-equinox mobiles
Week IV (9/29- 10/3)
*Fall planting
-native plants and restoring forests
-Read: A kiss goodbye a story about raccoons who have to leave forest home because of logging
-Read The Lorax
Week V (10/6- 10/10) Family Field trip: Salmon Festival @ Oxbow Park (DTBA)
Element: Water (add element to fairy wand)
*Salmon Week
-listen to Chenoa Egawas CD
-Salmon mobiles tell stories of salmon
-pretend to be animals associated with salmon
-Salmon obstacle course
-Read our salmon books
Week VI (10/13- 10/17)
*First Nations of the Pacific Northwest
-Read various traditional stories of Pacific Northwest
-Use story tellers seat in native plant garden to tell Chinook origin story
-listen to Chenoa Egawas CD
-make medicine bags
-continue work on mobiles
Week VII (10/20- 10/24) & Week VIII (10/27- 10/31) & Week IX (11/3- 11/7)
PARENTS! Please bring in pictures of loved ones that have passed on and a short story about them and dress your child on halloween for our halloween parade
*Discussing and decorating for Halloween
-Read various halloween books
-Make bats
-Make jack-o-lanterns
*Discussing and decorating for Day of the Dead
-Read Elena’s Serenade, and books about Day of the Dead
-Set up altar to dead relatives
decorate with candles, flowers, natural candy
-Bake Pan de Los Muertos
-share stories about loved ones
-halloween parade
Week X (11/10- 11/14) CLOSED on the Nov. 10th
*Traditional/ family recipes and stories.
-Fall harvest
-Cooking/ Focusing on food
-Starting our Mushrooms
Week XI (11/17- 11/21) CLOSED 26th, 27th, 28th
*Recapping the Fall
-adding pictures to collage
Week XII (11/24- 11/28) & Week XIII (12/1- 12/5)
Family Recipies
-family stories, recipies
-looking at the map, tracing our heritage
tracing how our family came to Oregon
Week XIV (12/8- 12/12) & Week XIV (12/15- 12/19) & Week XV (12/22-12/23)
Element: Fire (add element to fairy wand)
*Decorating for Hanukkah, Christmas, Solstice, and any other family holidays
celebrated
-Make beeswax candles
CLOSED 12/24- 1/1 REOPEN 1/2
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