Social Justice for Little Learners

Grade Level: PS 3

Topic: Indigenous Issues (Relationships with Nature)

Book Title: “One Eagle Soaring”

Author: Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd

Link to Purchase: https://a.co/d/d1x7BpZ

Link for Online Read-Aloud : https://youtu.be/F59zYsMZgNM?si=b9eXiompYLQZW7gu

Discussion Prompts/Questions:

• “We love to count! In this book, we get to help count animals that are found near the Pacific Ocean. Animals and nature are very important to Indigenous People all over the world, and they protect and take care of them. In this book, we can find the animals and if we look closely we can also see some special secret picture details.”
• Take the opportunity to work slowly through the pages and count, with one-to-one correspondence, all of the animals as you read the text.

Follow-Up Activity:

• Play with numbers! Have children sort and count animals, order numbers, and count objects in their space. You can also sing familiar number songs and do exercises (3 jumps, 2 spins, 5 wiggles, etc).

BC Core Competency Connections:

Personal and Social

• Positive Personal and Cultural Identity
  • I am aware of myself as different from others.
• Social Awareness and Responsibility
  • I am aware that other people can be different from me.
  • I can identify when something is unfair to me or to others.

Thinking

• Creative Thinking
  • I get ideas when I play.
• Critical Thinking
  • I can explore materials and actions.

Communication

• Communicating
  • In a safe and supported environment, I respond meaningfully to communication from peers and adults.
  • In familiar settings, I communicate with peers and adults.
• Collaborating
  • In familiar situations, I can participate with others.

BC Curricular Connections:

• Understand (Big Ideas):
  • Stories and other texts help us learn about ourselves and our families. (ELA K)
  • Everyone has a unique story to share. (ELA K)
  • Stories and traditions about ourselves and our families reflect who we are and where we are from. (SS K)
  • Strong Communities are the results of being connected to family and community and working together towards common goals. (Career Education K)

• Know (Content):
  • Ways in which individuals and families differ and are the same. (SS K)
  • Cultural and social awareness, achieved by exploring self-identity, acknowledging cultural differences, honouring indigenous traditions (Career Education K)

• Do (Curricular Competency):
  • Comprehend and Connect
    • Engage actively as listeners, viewers, and readers, as appropriate, to develop understanding of self, identity, and community. (ELA K)
    • Recognize the importance of story in personal, family, and community identity. (ELA K)
  • Create and Communicate
    • Exchange ideas and perspectives to build shared understanding. (ELA K)
  • Acknowledge different perspectives on people, places, issues, or events in their lives. (SS K)
  • Identify fair and unfair aspects of events, decisions, or actions in their lives and consider appropriate courses of action. (SS K)
  • Share ideas, information, personal feelings, and knowledge with others. (Career Education K)

FPPL Link:

• Learning ultimately supports the well-being of the self, the family, the community, the land, the spirits, and the ancestors.
• Learning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential, and relational (focused on connectedness, on reciprocal relationships, and a sense of place).
• Learning involves generational roles and responsibilities.
• Learning recognizes the role of Indigenous knowledge.
• Learning is embedded in memory, history, and story.

BC ELF Link:

• Families have the most important role in contributing to children’s well-being and learning.
• People build connection and reconnection to land, culture, community and place.
• Play is integral to well-being and learning.
• Relationships are the context for well-being and learning.

TFT Through-line Link:

• Justice Seeking
• Community Building
• Servant Working