Integrated

January February
Learning Plan
Term 2 3 2017

March mid April

Mid April mid

May

Mid May June

Inquiry
Questions

How are communities

built? How were
communities in the middle
ages different from todays
communities? What
elements make up a
society or community?

How are light and

sound produced?
What are the
properties of light and
sound? What is
matter? What are its
properties? How are
these properties
useful to us? How do
the properties
connect to the
function of the
material?

How can we care for

the environment?
How do we shape
our local
environment? How
does our
environment affect
us? What patterns
(weather etc) can we
find in the forest?

What features and

adaptations do marine
animals have to help them
survive?
How are animals and
environments(land and sea)
connected? What patterns
and cycles affect the ocean
(moon, tides, rain, etc).

Focus Topic

Le moyen-ge

Les sciences : la
lumire et son, la
matire

Les forts

Les ocans

Conceptual
Understanding
s

Technology changes
communities over time;
cooperative communities
lead to survival and
growth.

Matter makes up all

things; An objects
functions are
connected to its
material properties
We discover

Communities and
environments are
interdependent;
(bio)diversity helps a
forest survive.

Animal adaptations lead to

survival; environments are
interdependent; various
cycles affect environments.

properties of light and

sound through
scientific exploration
Core
Explain, recount reflect;
Competency:
acquire, interpret and
Communication present information
Core
Competency:
Thinking

Acquire, interpret,
and present
information

Analyze, question and

Developing
investigate/ generate ideas ideas/question and
investigate

Connect and engage Explain, recount,

with others/ Explain, reflect/connect, engage with
recount and reflect
others
Analyze and
critique/Generate
Ideas/question and
investigate

Novelty and value of

ideas/develop ideas

Core
Personal value and
Competency:
choices/ relationships and
Personal/Social cultural context/ building
relationships/ valuing
diversity

Solving problems in
peaceful ways

Well being/
Contributing to community
relationships and
and caring for the
cultural
environment
context/Contributing
to community and
caring for the
environment

Language Arts
Curricular
Content and
competencies

Phonemes: eau/au,
an/en
sentence structure
writing observations

Poetry
research project
individual on tropical
forest animal
structure of
informational text

structure of story/parts of a
story
literary strategies story
mapping
phonemic awareness and
French phonemes (ch, ou,
oi, on,/)
characters, setting,
important events
retelling stories

research project? (If not done

in May)
publish story on ocean
animal
journal writing
grammar/ phonics
publishing stories
structure of a story

structure of a story
Francophone culture:
Carnaval
Social Studies
Curricular
Content and
competencies

Features of a community
Roles, rights, and
responsibilities in different
communities

Roles, rights, and

responsibilities in a
community

Math Curricular number problems

number problems
Content and
skip counting to 100
skip counting to 100
competencies
sets of 10
sets of 10 to 100
represent equal groups
numbers in depth to
with and without singles
20
numbers in depth to 20
addition and
addition and subtraction to subtraction to 20
20
graphing problems
estimating sets
strategies: doubles
subitizing
strategies: +-1/make
10/add 10

caring for our

environment and
solving problems
learning ways to
help the
environment at our
school
relationships with
the environment
recognizing manmade and natural
environments

Key events and features of

the community
Caring for our environment
Diverse backgrounds,
perspectives in a community

measurement
length, area, mass
number problems
likelihood of events
financial literacy
strategies: near
doubles

problem solving
measurement - volume
addition and subtraction
mental math strategies
(review)
financial literacy

Science
Curricular
Content and
competencies

Aboriginal knowledge of
seasonal changes
Aboriginal knowledge of
the sky and environment
Patterns on Earth

light and sound

experiments:
properties and
sources
properties of matter
and their uses
scientific method
Aboriginal knowledge
of seasonal changes

plant adaptations
seasonal changes
planting a bean and
watching it grow (in
a plastic cup after
spring break)
comparing
environments
(tropical and
temperate forest)
names of local plants
and Aboriginal uses
of local plants

animal behavior and

adaptations
needs of living things
Aboriginal knowledge of
seasonal changes
Patterns on Earth and in sky

P.E./Health Ed.
Curricular
Content and
competencies

Modified volleyball
Indoor soccer, floor hockey
Substances and how to
avoid them
Emotions: causes and
effects

Gymnastics
Relationship between
food, hydration, and
health

Mini Track and field

Cooperative games
(jumping, relays,
Hazardous situations and
running, throwing
how to avoid them
bean bags)
Parts of the body
and
appropriate/inapprop
riate ways of being
touched

Arts/Technolog
y Curricular
Content and
competencies

Artist study: Charles

Rennie MacKintosh,
Small group plays: Fairy
tales
Begin coding

Artist study: Roy

Henry Vickers

Artist study: Georgia Artist study: Matisse

OKeefe
Monet
Emily Carr

Special Events

Winter clothes fashion

show
Lunar New Year
Valentines Day
Carnaval de Quebec
celebration

Science experiments
Scientist visit?
Field trip Science
world Light
workshop

Lynn Canyon or Cap

River field trip
Community walks

End of year picnic at Cates

Park/Whey-ah-whichen