{"id":116,"date":"2011-03-21T16:20:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T16:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2025-11-13T01:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:08:25","slug":"start-your-lesson-with-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Start Your Lesson with Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>posted by Bereket Aweke<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCommunity Building not only makes students physically refresh<br>but also set their mind for learning\u201d<\/em><br>Mr.Habtamu \u2013 Science Teacher at CHA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia<\/p>\n<p>Grade 5 students at Children\u2019s Home Academy always start their Science lesson with community buildings. The community building may be a simple stretching exercise or other activities first demonstrated by the teacher but later lead by students. Watch below two video clips:<br>1\u2014one of their morning Community Building techniques<br>2\u2014and the reflection of students on Community Building.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>\u2014student chooses and leads community building exercises<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"community building.mp4\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_M1Kr4_WEOk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><em>\u201c\u2026it is good for our mind and we can get refreshed and are happy to learn\u2026\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;<em>student<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Student&#039;s Reflection.mp4\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hxVLIgpXpi0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>posted by Bereket Aweke \u201cCommunity Building not only makes students physically refreshbut also set their mind for learning\u201dMr.Habtamu \u2013 Science Teacher at CHA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Grade 5 students at Children\u2019s Home Academy always start their Science lesson with community buildings. The community building may be a simple stretching exercise or other activities first demonstrated&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=116\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Start Your Lesson with Community<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,13,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaborative-networking","category-structuring-environment","category-training","category-video","gallery-content-unit","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7oKjh-1S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3644,"url":"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=3644","url_meta":{"origin":116,"position":0},"title":"Hayikmesay Elementary School","author":"admin","date":"March 12, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Hayikmesay\u00a0Elementary School Tigray, Ethiopia By Dagim Melese and Atsede Teshayou Photos and Video by Atsede Tsehayou and Dagim Melese We continued our site visits today with an elementary school called Hayikmesay. 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