Week 7 Reflection

Week 7 Reflection

This week we have finished our lesson and making recycled paper with 3K. We thought that everything went really well with no failures or mistakes. We have now started doing our display board’s work. Our group has decided on who's doing what for our research summaries. At school, we have finished typing up, printing and laminating our title, group number, lines of inquiry and concepts. Our group still has a lot more to do!

This weeks weekend homework was to finish our non-chronological reports and to finish typing up our display work assigned by Mrs Lowe.

Action

This week we had a lesson with 3K. We did 2 activities: A lesson with Hogan and Jaime who presented the Powtoon and the board game. In the end we introduced the drama but there was no time left on that afternoon so Ms King told us that they will do the drama when they have time and show it to us. She also said that we did a good job! The other activity is making recycled paper. It went pretty well but the only problem was that we made a bit of a mistake on the first lesson. In the second lesson, we learnt from our mistakes and eventually

managed to finish the second lesson with less mistakes. The tidying up was really fun!

Display board preparation

When we had a mentor meeting with Mrs Lowe, we told her that we finished our action so she hurried us to the next stage - Display board preparation. We chose our roles: out of these 4: -Printing -Cutting -Mounting -Laminating. Jaime chose cutting, Hogan chose printing, Janice chose mounting while Antonio chose laminating. We did quite a lot of titles on Friday which made us proud of our quick work.

By Antonio, Hogan, Jaime & Janice

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Week 6 Reflection

Week 6 Reflection

This week, we have finished writing our action plan and have started getting everything ready for our action. We have also finished our survey trip which means that research is all finally done. Our group has already started planning our presentation, how we should place everything on our display board and how should we make the display more creative. We have finished typing up our Lines of Inquiry on a tree outline to put on our display board.

Action

Our final action is to teach Year 3's how to make recycled paper, a lesson about what global warming is and tips on reducing pollution. We got the instructions from Ms Burley, as well as the equipment we needed.

We are also writing up a drama with 6L02. This week we are concentrating on finishing our script. Next week, we want to get all the props and costumes finished. We all have to start learning our lines once the script is done.

Exhibition Maths and English work

We all have started doing our Exhibition Maths and English work. Hogan and Jaime are writing non-chronological reports, Janice is writing a story while Antonio is writing a recount for our English work. For our maths work, we are all putting our survey results into graphs and charts (pie charts, bar graphs etc.)

Survey trip

Our Survey Trip has also taken place this Wednesday. We went to Festival Walk in the pouring rain, and managed to survey 24 people. We successfully filled in all the Chinese Surveys but we still have 3 English Surveys not filled in. We have finished writing our data on a Google Spreadsheet and we also have put some data into charts and graphs.

Overall, we are working well. We are still a little behind on our action, so we are trying to catch up on that. Therefore, we hope that next week our plans for action go successfully.

By Hogan, Jaime and Janice

Week 5 Reflection

Week 5 Reflection

This week we have brought our research to a close and have went on our first field trip to the Fanling Resource Centre. It was great except that Antonio was sick and he couldn’t go. We took many photos and wrote down many notes. We also took many leaflets from the resource centre.

Our group is a bit behind in taking action and because we took so much time researching which made us stuck on summarising on research and we were really scared and Miss Fisher (our class teacher) had to talk to some of us about being balanced and that we should have more rest.

This week we have just finished all our research and now we are summarising the research on to a Venn diagram though we are not finished. The parts of the Venn diagram is line of inquiry 1 and line of inquiry 2.

We also felt like changing our logo, but then since this week we didn’t have much time so we didn’t change it. Some of the group members want to cartoon it because the logo now is not a cartoon but a very realistic one.

We did our Exhibition Work Breakdown to make sure that we are all using one of the skills that we learnt before in English, Maths, and Mandarin.  We all have done the Chinese Survey so we all planning to put that down in our Mandarin section.

We were planning to do a comic strip to teach children about saving the environment but then we also found out that comic strips are made out of paper and the children may just dump it without recycling. Now, we want to try and teach children how to make recycled paper.

We had a mentor meeting on Friday and Mrs Lowe told us to stop researching. We also needed to think about action and carry out our action as quick as possible. Our group has already started writing up our Action Plan though we are not finished. We want to try to teach Year 1, 2 and 3s how to make recycled paper.

Skills we have used or developed this week:

• Being balanced
• Summarising skills
• Researching skills
• Time Management skills
• Cooperation

Knowledge we have used or developed this week:

• More ways to reduce pollution
• The greenhouse effect
• How important forests are
• Good note taking

Our trip:

Problems we had with our Fanling Environmental Resource Centre trip (before and after):

• We could not find a parent that would volunteer to accompany us
• We had a mix up with our email with Mr Harrison asking if any teachers were available to help us during the trip
• Jaime called the wrong number

Successes we had with our Fanling Environmental Resource Centre tip (before and after):

• We found our way around Fanling
• We noted down useful information and got what we need
• We all got lunch and remember to wear school uniform
• 6L04 successfully sent an email to the environmental resource centre for information about the centre and for permission to go there

Next stage in our Inquiry Cycle:

Our next stage is the Sorting Out stage. That is the stage where we all summarise our research. We also sort out which research is related and important for our inquiry and which research isn’t related and important for our inquiry. We have already started a bit because we had sorted and summarised our research on a Venn diagram (though not finished).  We all have finished our research and summarised it so we are quite prepared for this next stage.

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By Janice, Hogan and Jaime. Photos added by Antonio