6th Grade Term 4 Seasonal Topic Malama Honua and Intro to Geocaches: This term we completed 3 spring adventure cycles. The activities were designed to emphasize individual goals, stating needs, encouragement/support, fear/anxiety, success/failure. The 6th-8th grade adventure norms guide our interactions “Be Here”, “Be Safe”, “Be Honest”, “Set Goals” and “Let Go and Move On”. Our outdoor classroom is the Eco-Garden and the Jordan River Nature Study Area near the Day Riverside Library and we went Canoeing on the Jordan River and on an overnight field work to Bear Lake as part of the Mind of the Navigator Travel Learning Program focused on “Who am I (6th) Who am I in the Community (7th) and Who am I as a Leader (8th). We hope that this repeated experience might promote, respect for differences, problem solving, self-esteem and compassion. Students use the experiences to practice all of their habits of crew and to emphasize the 6-8 grade adventure norms listed above.
6th Grade Accomplished Comments: Can analyze potential consequences when confronted with a behavior choice and knows techniques to support and spot peers taking healthy risks.
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This term we completed 3 winter adventure cycles. We embodied our norms and goals by practicing and performing the School wide haka Whai Ake Te Mataurana (Pursue Knowledge), traditional haka E Ko Te Tui (The Tui Bird Sings) and Ka Mate (I live or die). The kapa haka practices for this age group were designed to emphasize individual goals, stating needs, encouragement/support, fear/anxiety, success/failure. The 6th-8th grade adventure norms guide our interactions “Be Here”, “Be Safe”, “Be Honest”, “Set Goals” and “Let Go and Move On”.
This term we completed 3 fall/winter adventure cycles. The case study was titled “Fire making” and the guiding question was “how did my ancestors make fire and where did it come from” The activities were designed to emphasize individual goals, stating needs, encouragement/support, fear/anxiety, success/failure. The 6th-8th grade adventure norms guide our interactions “Be Here”, “Be Safe”, “Be Honest”, “Set Goals” and “Let Go and Move On”. Our outdoor classroom is the Eco-Garden and the Jordan River Nature Study Area near the Day Riverside Library, however our fire making activities occur in the adventure field just west of the school. We acted like Voyagers by staying warm in the winter with collecting materials for fire making and carving pieces of our own bow drill fire kit and practicing techniques for plow and bow drill with practice kits. Students set short term goals of who can generate friction for enough heat to be sensitive to the touch and eventually generating enough friction to make smoke.
This term we completed 3 late summer adventure cycles. The case study was titled “A Hero’s Journey of Food Preservation” and the guiding question was “what can I eat out here and how do I know?” The activities were designed to emphasize creating a community, cooperation, communication and conflict resolution. Students are learning about this through the mantra “Information; Evaluate; Decide” and the 6th-8th grade adventure norms “Be Here”, “Be Safe”, “Be Honest”, “Set Goals” and “Let Go and Move On”. Our outdoor classroom is the Eco-Garden and the Jordan River Nature Study Area near the Day Riverside Library. We acted like Voyagers by learning to prepare for the winter by preserving food in traditional ways like dehydrating. We learned about native plant identification, identified various edibles made “Sumac-Aid” and collected fall harvest from the nature study area and the eco-garden.
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