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Saturday, July 17, 2010
Being part of a Community!
As part of our learning about bees, we were trying to make connections between how bees live as a community and how we as humans live in communities. Once we knew what would happen if one kind of bee didn't do their job, we had to think about what might happen if in our learning community of Room 25, someone didn't do their job. Our understanding of community was a bit limited so...
Ms McPhail decided it was time for us to experience what happens when someone in our classroom community doesn't do their job! On Monday morning she called the roll and then told us she was not teaching us today! WOW... WIERD... WHAT...! We sat there for a while before it sank in that she REALLY wasn't going to be teaching us. COOL we thought...free time! We jumped up and took off to do the things we wanted to do.
Some of us played on the computers while others grabbed paper and drew pictures. We made hearts and cards for Ms McPhail and we kept on looking at her because....well...things didn't seem quite right!
After about half an hour a few of us were wandering around the room looking for things to do. During the morning we got noisy, we got silly and we even did some things we knew we shouldn't like taking special paper to draw or write on and the worst thing was that during the morning there was a power cut and we had no computers! By lunchtime our classroom looked like a tip and our behaviour belonged in that same tip!
After lunch, we sat down in a circle to have some dialogue time on what had happened and why. Ms McPhail explained that what we had been through was a learning experience to show us what happens when someone in a community doesn't do their job, and how that affects others. We got to share how we felt, and why we had made the choices we did that morning.
It was interesting that most of us felt wierd, a bit strange, and a bit disappointed that we had not done any learning. Although it was fun having free time, we ran out of ideas on what to do quite quickly. We know we could have used the time better, but without someone leading us, we made some poor choices.
This lead into a deeper discussion about structure within a community and leadership, as well as what we need to do to have an effective community in Room 25, or anywhere else where a community operates.
Although we didn't get to do the normal kind of learning that day, we learned a whole lot of other things about ourselves and about working together as a community.
In term 3 we will get to explore this a bit more as we work with our Kakapo Community to create our story in the school production. Watch this space...
Ms McPhail decided it was time for us to experience what happens when someone in our classroom community doesn't do their job! On Monday morning she called the roll and then told us she was not teaching us today! WOW... WIERD... WHAT...! We sat there for a while before it sank in that she REALLY wasn't going to be teaching us. COOL we thought...free time! We jumped up and took off to do the things we wanted to do.
Some of us played on the computers while others grabbed paper and drew pictures. We made hearts and cards for Ms McPhail and we kept on looking at her because....well...things didn't seem quite right!
After about half an hour a few of us were wandering around the room looking for things to do. During the morning we got noisy, we got silly and we even did some things we knew we shouldn't like taking special paper to draw or write on and the worst thing was that during the morning there was a power cut and we had no computers! By lunchtime our classroom looked like a tip and our behaviour belonged in that same tip!
After lunch, we sat down in a circle to have some dialogue time on what had happened and why. Ms McPhail explained that what we had been through was a learning experience to show us what happens when someone in a community doesn't do their job, and how that affects others. We got to share how we felt, and why we had made the choices we did that morning.
It was interesting that most of us felt wierd, a bit strange, and a bit disappointed that we had not done any learning. Although it was fun having free time, we ran out of ideas on what to do quite quickly. We know we could have used the time better, but without someone leading us, we made some poor choices.
This lead into a deeper discussion about structure within a community and leadership, as well as what we need to do to have an effective community in Room 25, or anywhere else where a community operates.
Although we didn't get to do the normal kind of learning that day, we learned a whole lot of other things about ourselves and about working together as a community.
In term 3 we will get to explore this a bit more as we work with our Kakapo Community to create our story in the school production. Watch this space...
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