Today as a group we considered the question ‘When do people in our community write?’
Firstly we brainstormed who the people in our community are:
Who is our community?
Bessie: Our school
Lewis : Our street
Wesley: Our town, Carlton, Brunswick
Claudia: Our parents
AJ: Our Teachers
Next we thought it was important to define what a community actually was:
Community definition:
Archie: A whole group of people
Ike: Group of people who get together and do work
Robert: Lots of people doing things together
Molly – All the people around us
Kat – Teamwork
Bessie: Our surroundings
Then we were able to begin creating a table of information about who was in our community, when they wrote and why they were writing.
| Who | When | Why? |
| My neighbour who moved in recently (Lewis) | 2pm everyday. Or whenever I hit the ball into their yard. | They write letters to people they used to live near. They are usually typing the letters. |
| My next door neighbours (Wesley) | When they are travelling at night time | They write letters to people they have met when they are travelling. |
| Me (AJ) | 6.30am | Practicing my handwriting so I am ready for school. |
| Waiter at a café near my house (Meredith) | On the weekend | He was writing down my order to give it to the kitchen so they knew what to make for me. |
| Nurse (Kate) | At the hospital in Apollo Bay | The nurse was writing to record details of Oli’s medical history and to make sure he wasn’t allergic to anything. |
| My neighbour (Lilian) | At their house in their front room | My neighbour writes because she is studying. She is a student at University doing lots of hard work. |
| My mum (wren) | After she has cooked something | To help her remember the recipe for next time. |
| My mum (Olivia) | At work every day | To record information about the human body to share with other people. |
| My Dad (Tao) | His workplace during the week | To communicate with Coles/Woolworths to convince them to use his milk and products. He has to be persuasive. |
| My Cousins (Kat) | On weekends | They write stories to make them happy. |
| My friends (Robert) | Everyday 6pm – 9pm | She is doing Chinese homework a day because my aunt and my dad think I will know more things and be more successful. |
| My Dad (Izzy) | At work | He is an engineer and he organises the plan to show where everything needs to go. |
| My Dad (Faisal) | At work | My Dad writes so he can send information to the office. |
| My Dad (Karl) | At work | He needs to write for work because he designs fonts |
We would like to invite the parents and carers, who are very important members of our community, to consider coming into visit our neighbourhood to explain to us if you use writing in your life (at work/hobbies) and why you write. We are always flexible and can work around our timing to suit your availability. Please come and see Meredith, Kate or Warrick to organise your visit.