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West Coast Ambassodor Program will be offerning a few winter dates.
The first is Small Town Big Picture: Tofino - Noveber 21st.
5 - 8pm at Tofino Visitor Centre Conference Room.
⚓️ Learn about local history and basic ecology, cross-cultural understanding, businesses and activities, host etiquette, and important civic information.
These are free West Coast Ambassador Program courses but space is limited so registration is required, so follow the 🔗 in our bio!
This program is a joint initiative of @raincoasted and @tofinochamber, @uclueletchamber, and @tourismtofino.
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Nov 14
We could BEAR-ly believe our luck at the Thornton Creek Hatchery! 🐻
Just as Mr. Reynolds’ class arrived, they caught a final glimpse of a black bear checking the creek for salmon. 🐟
But the real highlight came when Dave demonstrated the hatchery’s spawning methods and shared the crucial role salmon play in our region. 🏞️The students learned how both salmon and humans are keystone species and even got a bonus lesson in career education. What a day to read, learn, and connect with nature! 📚
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Oct 23
On a day of both brilliant sun ☀️and chaotic hail 🌧️, Ms. Comtois class studied the art of shelter building.
We headed down to Tonquin beach to learn and practice a few knots before heading into the forested area in the persuit of prime shelter building sites 🏕. Students worked to put up ridgelines, attach their tarp, and secure it all tightly with their new knot-ledge. 🪢
Field School Topic: Knots and shelters
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Oct 22
The fourteen groups comprising the nuu chah nulth first nations peoples have been living on the Pacific West Coast for upwards of 10,000 years. It is important to learn and talk about the history and culture of these long standing groups.
Both, Ms Brinkman & Santo`s classes started by learning a bit of history of the West Coast, and then we watched a video on proper terminology and discussing Indigenous groups. We then ventured outside into the rain to do a scavenger hunt at Terrace beach and Spring Cove! 🌊
This scavenger hunt included finding the nuu chah nulth (are the use of hyphen`s correct in the word Nuu chah nulth or not) word for `elder tree`, learning about mud flats and discussing the ecological impacts of eelgrass! 🍃
This was a wet day outside but I thank the grade 6/7`s for enthusiastically being outside with me and I can`t wait for our next field school! 💦
Field School Topic: Nuu Chah Nulth knowledge
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Oct 21
I have to say- these grade 1 & 2`s are gill-ty of loving salmon!🐟 This was our first trip out together this year and it was tons of fun!
These 1/2`s wanted to learn all about the life cycle of salmon and so we started by naming the 6 stages- eggs, alevin, fry, smolt, adult and spawner!
Once we really understood these six stages we went to big beach to try and see what it would be like to be a spawner in the stream! 🏞 We did the salmon sniffing game and the objective of this was to try and smell your way to your homestream blindfolded!
This was a fin-tastic day with Ms. Taylor`s class and I can`t wait to get out with these 1/2`s again! 🌊
Field School Topic: Salmon Life Cycles
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Oct 21
Ms. Thompson`s grade 1 and 2s took a rainy walk to the beach at Tofino Sea Kayaking 💦.
We discussed some guesses as to whal eelgrass might look like, and some of the species that might call it home. 🦀 Before too long we were drenched through and decided to head back to class.🌧️
On a futre date we will put the sudents guesses to the test with a beach seine - hopefully on a dry day! 🐟
Field School Topic: Eelgrass species/ beach seine
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Oct 20
We may be a bit late to National Forest Week but we made it & had our own great lesson anyways. 🌲
For a special event for the Grade 5’s at UES we took them all to the Rainforest loop to get a better understanding of our forests from Foresters, Ecologists, Biologists and Tribal Park representatives. 🌱 We learnt about values within the forest and how we use our forests in traditional and modern ways. We had the opportunity to see how a tree is corked, how to measure diameters, and listened for wildlife! 🪵
This was such a lovely day to go out on the trail and we had such great discussions. Thanks to these grade 5’s for an awesome morning and can’t wait to go out again!🌿
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🙏 BC Forest Practices Board & Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks
Oct 18
We are emersed in mushroom investigation with Dr. Andy MacKinnon & Dr. Kem Luther in this weekends Mushrooms of the West Coast.
Here are a few examples of what we might find.
PhotoCredit: T.Belliveau. 🍄
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