Communities are up and running!

Grade Ones have been introduced this week to our 'Community' boards. This is showing them yet another way of how we can communicate with others. After surveying all the children to see what was popular with them and where their interests lie, we have come up with eight different communities for the children to be involved in. They will be treating these boards like an online forum where they can browse, lurk, comment and ask questions.

The communities are : 

PokePals - Pokemon 

Master Crafters - Minecraft

Sports for kids

Eh! Oh! Lego!

Toy Stories

The World of Kittens

Cold Blooded or Not?

Hot Dog!

The children had the opportunity to go to our piazza to see which community they were signed up to and what was posted on the boards. Then we went back to the class to brainstorm together what we will do next. They had fantastic ideas!

We saw that the boards had pictures, information, questions and likes. The class knew that they wanted to write things on the board, but how were they going to do that? Mr Jon introduced us to the idea of making comments and we discussed what this might look like. With great enthusiasm the students were off post it notes in hand and the commenting began. I can't wait to see how this will progress.