Primary 7 at St David’s have been having an awesome time working on their Mi:Space project. We have done so many amazing things so far and we are really looking forward to what’s in store after the October break!
To start our project, our teacher created a survey that gave us the chance to give our opinions on the classroom. We were honest and didn’t hold back on anything and it was really interesting to see what other people thought. Our results showed that we didn’t really like the classroom the way it was so we feel really lucky to have the opportunity to make the classroom a better place for us and our learning.
After the survey, we divided our classroom into four different zones – the independent zone, the co-op zone, the genius station and the TALent station (Talk About Learning). After trying these out for a while, we decided to keep the genius station and the independent zone and make the rest of the classroom a ‘free choice’ zone.
Now we have started to look at the brochure and think about what kind of furniture we could maybe get for each of the zones. This has been quite challenging as we are trying to think about what our classroom is going to look like in the future and how it will work for different styles of learning in our classroom.
Other things we have been doing during the project are:
Using the padcaster and greenscreen to make imovies, building lego models of our dream classroom using real lego bricks and ‘buildwithchrome’.
We also made a whiteboard table for making learning easier and more fun because we can draw on tables and show our learning.
We are really excited about what we can do next to make our classroom even more amazing!
Loved trying out your TALent station! Your space has changed and will be forever changing depending on what you’re doing but I know you’re finding out so much about what helps, and importantly, why.