• Charter for Children Book Series – DC Canada Education Publishing: www.dc-canada.ca
• Everybody Bakes Bread – Norah Dooley
• Discovery Education Videos: “A Kid’s Guide to Rules” – http://www.discoveryeducation.ca/Canada/
• Learning to Give.org – website with many resources – http://learningtogive.org/
• Welcoming Schools.org – website with applicable resources – http://www.welcomingschools.org/
• How to Bullyproof your Classroom by Caltha Growe – Responsive Classroom – https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/product/how-bullyproof-your-classroom

• CR1.1: Comprehend and respond to a variety of visual, oral, print and multimedia text that address identity (exploring interests, community e.g., belonging), and social responsibility (e.g., contributing).
• Use illustrations, photographs, video programs, objects, and auditory cues to understand ideas and information.
• Relate a personal experience as a result of a picture, photograph, or model.
• Satisfy natural curiosity by engaging in inquiry:
  • wonder about new ideas and observations
  • discuss personal knowledge of a topic
  • ask questions to satisfy personal curiosity and information needs
  • identify self and others as sources of information
  • seek information from others including people at school, at home, and in the community including Elders and Knowledge Keepers
  • compare gathered ideas and information to personal knowledge
  • share learning and information-gathering experiences compose with a scribe
  • indicate whether or not information is useful for answering questions.
• CC1.1: Compose and create various, visual, multimedia, oral, and written texts that explore and present thoughts, ideas, and experiences.
• CC1.2: Use and construct symbols, pictures, and dramatizations to communicate feelings and ideas in a variety of ways.

Language Arts connections are primarily developed through student responses to the essential questions as they demonstrate understanding of their citizenship responsibilities.

Science

• LT1.1: Differentiate between living things according to observable characteristics, including appearance and behaviour.
• OM1.1: Investigate observable characteristics and uses of natural and constructed objects and materials in their environment.
• OM1.2 – Examine methods of altering and combining materials to create objects that meet students needs.
• SE1.2: Explore how humans and animals use their senses to interact with their environment.
• DS1.1: Compare and represent daily and seasonal changes of natural phenomena through observing, measuring, sequencing, and recording.
• DS1.2: Inquire into the ways in which plants, animals, and humans adapt to daily and seasonal changes by changing their appearance, behaviour, and/or location.

Mathematics

• SS1.1: Demonstrate an understanding of measurement as a process of comparing by:
  • identifying attributes that can be compared
  • ordering objects
  • making statements of comparison
  • filing, covering, or matching.
• SS1.2: Replicate composite 2-D shapes and 3-D objects.
• SS1.3: Compare 2-D shapes to parts of 3-D objects in the environment.

Health

• USC 1.5: Explore the association between a health sense of “self” and one’s positive connection with others and the environment.
• DM 1.1: Examine initial steps for making basic choices regarding healthy behaviours; healthy relationships; and a healthy sense of self.
• AP 1.1: Apply the steps of Stop, Do, Think, Act to develop a healthy sense of self.

• “Circle Book” – Treaty Education Kit
• Create a symbols collage
• Have students assist with any school programs for recycling.