Ms Monaghan's EEP Group 2009's Page

The last time our EEP group met together we decided on our major project.
We decided to broadcast a radio programme for our whole campus. The aim of our radio programme will be to teach the Preps, Year 1, 2 and 3s a little bit about poverty and pollution.
We are planning to braodcast over the P.A. system at school sometime next term while people are eating their lunch in their classroom.

At the moment, we are not quite sure if we are going to broadcast everyday for a week or whether we will bro… Continue

Last week we got together in two groups to brainstorm the different ways that the Year 2 and 3s could help get their message out about Poverty and Pollution.

Here are some of the ideas we came up with:

POLLUTION (Year 2)
* Write an article for the newspaper
* Write a book to share with children at school
* We could design an anti-pollution t-shirt
* We could design a website to share with others
* Create posters for display around the school
* Write an anti-pollution jingle/song
* Make a TV co… Continue

Think --> Puzzle --> Explore (Week 3)During Week 3 we all completed a Think --> Puzzle --> Explore activity.
The Year 2 children focused on Pollution while the Year 3 children looked at Poverty.

We talked about the information we already know, questions we had and then how we could further explore each topic. Here are some of the things we came up with:

POLLUTION
* Why do lots of people use petrol?
* Why don't more people ride bikes?
* Why do people smoke?
* Why do more peop… Continue

Today we all met during period 2. We looked around the 'If I could change the world' website and got to know our own page. We also visited Mrs Whelan's group's page and left them a comment.
Our activity today saw the Year 2 children exporing pollution, while the Year 3 children looked at poverty. We completed a THINK --> PUZZLE --> EXPLORE activity to see what we all already knew and where we could go from there.
We are looking forward to meeting again next week to see if we can begin t… Continue