Week 4 Reflection

Week 4 Reflection

This week we have started researching and have continued on our Mandarin pieces.. We have also planned another trip to survey the public members of Festival Walk, and our survey is pretty much complete.

There have been less disagreements among our group and things are going along much smoother. The Easter holidays are coming up so we laid out plans on what we were going to do and our responsibilities throughout the 2 weeks of our holiday.

Some things we have done this week

• Researched for information about our questions-everyone has to work on different questions
• Found a lot of research links/ sources of information and put them on our references page
• Organised a trip to Festival walk to survey different people
• Formed our survey questions
• Formed our survey though we still have to confirm it

We are going to Festival Walk to survey people on  2nd May. We made a letter that we had to change because we didn’t know about the Island School Netball Tournament/Coaching at that time so then we had to create another permission letter. We are still waiting for reply slips from numerous group members in the Air Pollution Group and the Environment Group

For the Fanling Environmental Resource Centre trip, we have all returned our reply slips back to school but then none of the parents are available at this time. We had to send an email to Mr Harrison saying that there were no parents that were free at that time and added that we would be grateful if a teacher could come with us to accompany the 2 groups (The Air Pollution Group and the Environment Group). Not long after, we found out that Mrs. Judge is going to be accompanying us.

Skills we have shown:

• Cooperating with each other (Everybody)
• Listening to each other (Everybody)
• Respecting each other (Everybody)
• Accepting responsibility eg. finishing homework, doing their work etc. (Everybody)
• Using time wisely (Everybody)
• Recording data/research (Everybody)
• Forming questions (Everybody)
• Communicating with strangers (Jaime)

We are all looking forward to surveying the people at Festival Walk. We hope the following weeks will be going smoothly!

By Hogan, Jaime and Janice

Week 3 Reflection

Week 3 Reflection

Group reflection:

This week we have finalised our lines of inquiry and have formed questions to research on. All of us have already started some Mandarin work, we have made some titles for our Exhibition Journals in Mandarin. We have all already got newspaper articles and books related to our topic to start highlighting and summarising.

Sometimes our group gets sidetracked and we talk about other stuff.

Some things we have done this week:

• We have set up our roles and know what to research
• We formed research questions
• We finalised our lines of inquiry
• We finished our questions eggs (need to know, good to know and interesting to know questions)
• We had a meeting with Ms Chung, Ms Fisher and Mrs. Lowe
• We summarized our newspaper articles and started doing a little bit of research with the books we have borrowed
• Planned where we are going for our field trip & who we are going with (Air Pollution Group).
• We did a risk assessment and wrote a letter to get permission for the excursion trip

How did we from our line of inquiry:

• We found out our interests about what we wanted to research on and what concept we like
• We thought of questions that we want to research into
• We changed the questions into a line of inquiry
• We then thought of the concept it was related to
• We then decided whether that line of inquiry was suitable for our research
• We changed the line of inquiry if needed or agreed and decided that this line of inquiry was final

Our excursion: Fanling Environmental Resource Centre:

We are going to the Fanling Environmental Resource Centre on the 30th April.  Jaime experienced a weird phone call when we dialled the wrong phone number-we got the numbers mixed up. We also called the correct phone number for confirmation and booking our field trip. In the end, we are going on the 30th of April from 10:40 Am to 4: 00 Pm with the Air Pollution Group. We had to do a risk assessment that we sended to Mr Harrison so he can approve that we can go. We made a letter that will be sent home our parents and signed as soon as possible to make sure everybody will be going for the trip.

How our group are making decisions and dealing with any disagreements:

We are using the essential agreement to make sure when people do things as we agreed (signed) to. When they are not, we remind them that they are breaking a rule/rules.  The essential agreement is located at the back of the classroom on the window.

We make decisions by brainstorming a list of ideas and then agreeing on the best one. Sometimes, our group just makes a decision without making sure that everybody in the group agrees.

By Antonio, Janice, Jaime and Hogan (Group 6L04)

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