Jolly Jars

This term, our Project Based Learning (PBL) started with us having to form groups and collaboratively create Jolly Jars for the school fair. This task helped us to begin exploring our PBL question for the term - How can we build community through our actions? We had to research ideas, be creative with our product, experiment with our materials and write instructions that could be followed by others.

Here is a link to my instructions. instruction

I learnt that instructions need to be specific so that people can read them easily and follow them. They also need


Reflection on PBL:
For our Jolly Jar my group did sock puppets.

I contributed to my group by working with them and listening to their ideas.

Our Jolly Jar was creative because we put different things on the jars and noone else made sock puppets.

What I learned about working with others was hard because I was not working with my friends. Because of this I had to work with others that I am not used to.

How did we build community through our actions? Doing something for the community.
Jolly jars are a good idea because you can put stuff in it instead of carrying all the stuff. There were old toys that we donated to other kids. They would like to give it a go. My brother bought a jar and created the snowglobe and I had to help him do it because he can’t read the instructions. Mine was a lot different to him. I had a bit smaller writing than his. You need to have an inspiring title so people don't think your jar is boring.  You follow the steps to get an inspiring jar.