Museum Learning!

During the month of April, our class had the opportunity to visit the St. Marys Museum three times to support the learning of expectations from our Social Studies curriculum.  While there, we learned how the community of St. Marys has grown and developed around its main resources (limestone, water, soil, wood).    We also learned how our community has changed as a result of improvements in technology .  Some businesses that existed in the past have had to re-locate from our downtown area to the 'outskirts' to make space for the cars that people drive today.  Some businesses no longer exist because of technology (we no longer have a blacksmith in our downtown) and new kinds of businesses/services are being offered in our community that did not exist in the past.  We have started to compare our community to other communities in Ontario (ie. London) and have recognized that larger/urban communities often have more job opportunities and even more goods and services than we do.
Thank you to Amy Cubberly from the museum for inspiring some amazing thinking in our students.
Ask your child if they can identify and explain some of the changes that have happened in our community by looking at the pictures in this post!  Enjoy!