Let the learning begin!

This week we started to look further into our community. By doing this we established that a community is a connection between people formed by a common interest or area. After this, we started to look at the different types of communities that exist and why they exist. We learnt that not every community is the same and variables such as location and interests can affect the way in which they function.

Alongside this, we also investigated Jeannie Baker's book, Window. This book allowed us to look at things from another perspective. We adapted her concept of 'outside the window' and used it to draw what is outside our window. This allowed us to see how every person has a different perspective because we all live in different areas. This is the same as a community. The surroundings and location can affect the reason for a community.

Towards the end of the week, we got to email a class in Europe. They will hopefully reply and help us with our research. We want to know whether a community over there is different to the common community we have over here. It will be interesting to get a response.

3H

Our first week!

This week we were introduced to our new unit of work. We started by taking a test online to find out our learning styles, then we got into small groups to which classmates were similar to us. It was interesting to see how some people are learn differently to others.

From here we started to look at what a community is. To do this, we all talked about it and used the teacher helped us to organise our ideas by using an online tool called bubbl.us. This helped us to create a concept map by adding things and arranging them how we want. We then printed it up and put it on our wall. The teacher says that we will look at this later to see how much we have learnt.

After this, we got to work in small groups to look at a learning object. This helped us to clarify our understanding of what a community is.

We look forward to finding out more as we go along.

3H