Action

=CONCLUTION OF THE ACTION:=

By: Sofia Guevara 03/06/2012
ACTION: We did an interview to Olga Mogollon and we learnt a lot of things for example we learnt that when you accumulate it is because you’re reptilian brain directs it, we also did some surveys to you at break and in class to ask for some real life examples and to see if you knew that it was a problem and we learnt that the majority didn´t know that so One of our actions was to make a museum in which we showed a video which explained a problem that kids are having at school between each other, so that you could realize that it was a problem

With an example of a girl´s story, where she is being excluded and rejected by two other MEAN girls from her school, because she didn´t have the same material things as them, and she thought that the way was by buying the same material things as them to be popular and stop being excluded.

we also explained what the problem was, how to help you make the kids conscious of the problem and try not to get involved in it. And we also showed a pile of stuff in which they could see how they could end. We think that our museum fulfilled our expectations that was to make people believe that it is a problem and so that they can start to reflect about this problem.

We think that our action was sucessfull because at the end we asked some questions to the kids to see if they got the message and the majority did got it because we really tried to focus our action on it and not on desorganization.

Our second action was to make a letter in IT´S PRIMARY in the to reflect section so that the parents that are the responsible ones to make the change could reflect about it and help their kids stop getting Involved in that problem, it will hopefully appear in the IT´S PRIMARY of June. so that the parents can see which is the problem and try to help the kids.

We haven´t done the action, but we think that it would work because that way we can show parents which is the problem so that they can help their kids to improve.

=Card to Mrs. Patricia= = Card for mrs. Patricia = Dear mrs. Patricia

We are a group of sixth graders ( Maria Jose Soto, Sofia Guevara, Valentina Corzo and Franchesca Cobo ) and we want to ask for your permission to make our displays a mountain of things that children do not need but buy to be popular or for many other reasons, we will explain in a drama and a video what does the mountain means, also we will do some games to the kids so they dont get bored and learn something in a happy and funny way, at the end of the presentation we would like to do some question about what they learned and if they think competing among peers is a problem, we would do it on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday on both brakes, the presentation will be of 10 minutes. We promise when we end our presentation we would leave everything neat and organize

Thank you. Accumulators – competing among peers group.

Franchesca Cobo Valentina Corzo

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__ Sofia Guevara Maria Jose Soto __

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= = = By: Franchesca Cobo 17/05/12 =

Whole Action Plan = Written by: maria jose soto, sofia guevara 16/05/2012 = = IT´S PRIMARY = === We are going to write an article in It's Primary in a section called To Reflect in which we are going to explain to parents what is competition among peers, how it leads to accumulation, the conflict and ways to solve it. ===

TO REFLECT

 * We are 6th grade students. And we are working on the final project of the "Exhibition". We have chosen the topic "Competition among peers," because we have seen that at school there is competition for material things. **

PARA REFLEXIONAR:
Vamos a escribir un artículo en una sección llamada a reflexionar en la que vamos a explicar a los padres cuál es la competencia entre pares, la forma en que conduce a la acumulación, el conflicto y las maneras de resolverlo. ** 1st draft of To Reflect: **

Somos alumnos de 6 º grado y estamos trabajando en el proyecto final de la Exposición. Nuestro tema es “Cómo la competencia entre los compañeros conduce a la acumulación de objetos". Lo elegimos porque hemos visto que en la escuela en general hay una competencia por acumular cosas materiales.  La acumulación es una adicción que se inicia cuando los padres comienzan a comprar objetos a los niños que no necesitan. Estos padres se dejan manipular mediante argumentos sin fundamento por sus hijos quienes logran convencerlo y acceden a sus deseos. Por otra parte, también se sienten culpables por no estar con ellos mucho tiempo.

El resultado de esto es que el niño termina siendo un malcriado y un acumulador.

La solución es responsabilidad de los padres porque los niños no tienen un cerebro bien desarrollado para detener el conflicto. Los padres deben ayudarles a iniciar una reflexión sobre el problema y dejar de comprar tantas cosas que no necesitan.

We are going to write an article in It's Primary in a section called To Reflect in which we are going to explain to parents what is competition among peers, how it leads to accumulation, the conflict and ways to solve it.

=** Museum: **= script for the museum BY: Sofia Guevara 17/05/2012 = = Here is our script: = = Valentina Corzo: Welcome to our museum! Here you will learn about competition between peers and witch is the consequences. We hope you enjoy it! = = Sofia Guevara: Follow me! = = (We go in)

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= = Maria Jose: We will show you a video that we filmed for you to understand the problem of accumulation. = = (We show the video) = = Maria Jose: This video was made with real life examples that we asked you on breaks. = = Maria Jose: Know you will see a drama showing how the real problem with this girl’s life is. = = (Maria Jose takes the kids to the drama section) = =

= = Franchesca: All these years I have tried to be accepted by those girls and even bought everything they had to be accepted but they always get a new gadget better than mine that makes me jealous. So ill ask my mom = = Franchesca: MOM! = = Maria Jose: what do you want? = = Franchesca: Could you buy a blackberry to me? = = Maria Jose: I’ll think about it = = (Days later) = = Maria Jose: Hey, I’m going to travel here you go your black berry. = = Franchesca: YES! Know I am going to be accepted in their group this is the best day of my life! = = (Phone) = = Franchesca: Hey there you realy need to come to my house! = = Sofia and Valentina: OKAY? = = Sofia: Hi! = = Franchesca: Look if got an icewhatch = = (Valentina whispers to Sofia: she doesn’t have a blackberry) = = Franchesca: oh but where is your icewhatch? = = Sofia: We are not interested in that anymore! = = Valentina: plus you don’t have a blackberry. = = (Valentina and Sofia Walk away) = =

= = =We have the idea of making a museum were we show kids some piles of stuff. With this we pan to show them how much stuff a kid can have and also to make them reflect about how their house could end if this habit of buying and buying stuff without stopping and refusing to give them away. Here we will show them a video of reflection that shows sort of the construction of this museum a COMPETITION. It will be 2 groups of girls and one of the group gets a new gadget and the other group will want it as well so we will finish with this huge piles. We will tell them that be careful because if they continue doing that they could end like this. We are planning to open this museum during MONDAY 21, TUESDAY 22 AND WEDNESDAY 23 in both breaks. For every grade and teachers are also invited. During this time we will take pictures to show in our exhibition. At the end we will ask little questions so they can tell us what they learn from this experience. We will promote it by posters so people know about it! Here its is an example of the poster:=
 * By: Valentina Corzo 16/05/2012 **


 * Here it is a little plan of the organisation of the museum:**

= Planning our action! =

**Maria Jose Soto 13/05/12**
===We are planning our action and we are thinking of doing campaigns that means we are going a little for advocacy which i like. We are also thinking of having a talk with parents to tell them what's going on, because this topic is something most kids and parents are not aware of it. we are planning not to do an Indirect service because is the least recommended. the idea of the museum for me is for giving an impact to the parents.===

= Planning the Action! =

=This is the plan for the museum!= =att: Valentina Corzo= = = =__Created by: Sofia Guevara__= =All of us talked about it!=

We have planned to do several Actions:
===1) The first action we thought of was a persuasive speech to the 2nd Grade parents to make them aware that accumulation is a problem because the majority have no idea that it is a problem(DIRECT ACTION) We expect parents to help their kids if they are accumulator and get shoked with what we said.===

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===2) The second action that we thought of was to send a letter in the IT´S PRIMARY! letter to the parents in the column that says to reflect.(ADVOCACY AND OBSERVATION) also thougth of colecting a lot of shoes or toys or stuff you dont use anymore so that we can put them together in a pail so that the kids can visualise the amount of toys that they had accumulated and they could try to make a difference.We expect the parents to realizde the problem and try to change.===

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===3) We thought that it would be good to get a lot of toys and put them together in a mountain of toys so that we make an impact on the kids of how many toys that we dont use we still have. We expect people to get shoked and want to make a change.===

4) We where also thinking in doing something like a museum for people to see how the house of an accumulator looks like. We expect people to go and get amazed of the concequences of peer competition
= Action Plan =