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