Inquiry learing - where we are now

We have decided to make a movie using photostory. We have been taking photos of our inquiry journey and will now use these to make the movie. All of us get a turn a speaking into a microphone! It is fun!
We are going to share our movie with Learning Community 6.

In term 3 we are inviting the parents from our class to come and watch our movie. We will help Miss Clark to set up the data projector for this. Even though we are only 5 years old we know how to do this!

Blogging

Here we are in our 'Blog time'. We have been posting messages to the children in the other classes. It is fun!
Today we are going to tell you about the 'let's do it' stage of our inquiry journey.
We will do this later in the day because we need to do our story writing now!

Inquiry learning - let's do it!

We had to decide what we could do to make a difference.
All of us looked at our lunch boxes and found LOTS of gladwrap!
We thought about what else we could use to bring our food in.
Some of us decided that lunch paper would be good to wrap sandwiches in.
We decided that the zip bags would be good to bring our food in. (Even though zip bags are plastic they can be used again and again and again)
The best idea was to have a lunch box with compartments. Elle had one of these so she showed it to the class. Thank you for sharing this with us Elle :)




We used our green thinking hat to design this lunch box with compartments.





We then had to write a letter to our parents letting them know what we were learning in class and what difference we wanted to make.

We had to remind each other everyday about what we wanted to achieve.

Inquiry learning - what now?

What can we do with all this information?

Community 7 decided to try and bring less plastic to school.
We looked at how we were wrapping our food in school lunch boxes.

Inquiry learning - wonderings and discoveries

We asked lots of questions about 'Waste'
eg
I wonder why the glad wrap did not go away?
I wonder why the banana skin went away quickly?
I wonder how much rubbish goes to the dump from our school?
I wonder how can we have less rubbish?

Inquiry learning - big ideas

As part of our inquiry learning we looked at the different types of rubbish in our school. We found that there was a lot of rubbish in the playground. There was lots of plastic. We decided to bury some of this rubbish. We buried a banana skin, a flower, newspaper, glad wrap, a plastic drink bottle and a whole apple.
We dug up this rubbish every week for 6 weeks.
We found that the banana skin, the flower, the apple and newspaper rotted away.
All the plastic remained! We decided this was bad for our environment.



All the plastic we buried was still there after 6 weeks.

Inquiry Learning

We have been learning about 'Waste'. We visited the Bromley Refuse station to learn about rubbish and to make a worm farm.





Recycling is important for the environment.

Welcome

Welcome to Learning Community 7's blog. My name is Fiona Clark. I am the classroom teacher in Community 7. We look forward to sharing our learning with you.