In 1/2M we have been working very hard on our inquiry and have been planning and collaborating to build our own community. We have been looking at mapping to plan our community and meeting to discuss our thoughts on where certain things should go in our community. We then had to make decisions together and practise respectfully agreeing or disagreeing with others, including a reason to persuade others why we are correct. We have each begun constructing a house, which has led us to discussions around 3D shapes and how we can use nets to help us make those shapes.

Last week we celebrated NAIDOC week by making a collaborative art piece, and we also explored ways to tell stories using the earth. We recorded these stories using digital technologies.

Remembrance Day was also an important day for us last week. We looked at why poppies were symbolic of Remembrance Day and discussed why it’s important we remember. Through our reading of “My Place” different wars have been mentioned multiple times which supported our understandings around the effects of war on everybody.