Grade 1S and 1B have been looking at

“Our School Community”

Our central idea was

Everyone has a role in our School

Community

Tuning In We need to start by finding our what

we already know…we did it by brainstorming together and made a list of all of the people we know in our school community. The students drew the people that they knew.

Tuning InWe used pictures to help us think about what we

already know.

Tuning InWe showed what we already know by

putting a circle around the different people in our school community and

talking about the jobs they have.

Tuning InWe showed what we already

know by making collages of people we know in our school

communityMs Dingle

Mrs. Carrollo

Finding OutNow we were ready to find out

more…We decided it would be good to ask people in

our school community questions to find out more information. But first, we needed to

make a list of questions to ask. We needed to think about what makes a good question

and the words we use.

Who? What? Where? When? Why?

Finding OutWe were ready to find out more…

We decided to ask these questions:What is your name?What is your job?

We practiced asking each other these questions before we went for our

walk!

Finding OutWe interviewed members of our

school community

Finding Out

We needed to find out even more information about people in our

community. So we decided to invite people to come to our

classrooms to interview them.

Again, we looked at our question words to help us think about questions we could ask.

Who? What? Where? When? Why?

Finding OutWe decided to invite our special guests using an

Invitation we made together.

Finding OutWe were ready to find out more…

We asked Mr Moody

What is your job?

What is your favourite job?

Finding outWe were ready to find out more…

We asked Mrs. Carrollo

What is your job?

What is your favourite job?

Finding OutWe were ready to find out more…

We asked Simon’s mum, Frances

What is your job?

Sorting OutNow we had to think about and sort

out what we had learnt!So we made a map of our school and pasted

pictures of the people in our school community in the places we would find them!

Sorting out

This is what our map looked like!

Sorting Out We had to think about and sort out

what we had learnt!So we made riddles to show what we

had found out about people in our community

Sorting OutWe had to continue to think about and

sort out what we had learntWe brainstormed the groups of people in

our school community who work together. We put them in the triangle shape to show

the different sizes of each group.

Going FurtherNext, we drew the faces of some of the

people in our school community groups and put them on to paper cups. Then we placed

the cups on top of each other with the largest group at the bottom and the smallest

group at the top. The pyramid shape represented our entire school community!

Going FurtherWhen we had finished we asked ourselves “What would happen to the pyramid if we took away one of our school community

groups?”

Making Conclusions

The activity showed us that if all of the groups in our school community didn’t work together that our school community would ‘break’!

In other words…’everyone in our school works together to make our School Community a happy place to be!’