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Our Student of the Week.

          

In 2WS we have some amazing students who are really trying their best at all times.  Well done to William, Hayley, Harrison, Indiana, Julian and Zoe.

We are so proud of all the students, everyone is working so well.  We will be keeping our eyes out for students who display a positive attitude for our next community award.

Meal Worms Life Stages

Meal Worms Life Cycle

Visit our classroom this week to check out our growing meal worms.

This week in 2WS we got mealworms. We are going to observe and record their life stages. These photos show our mealworms on day 4 and 5 of their growth. They are alreading shedding their skin.

Hayley and Grace Talk Reading Strategies

This term in reading 2WS is learning about non-fiction books.What non-fiction means is that it is an information book.  Today we did an activity and we learned the PEEK strategy and the THIEVES strategy.  2WS has been reading about Red Kangaroos and using these strategies to help with our reading.

Grace's group completed a DESCRIBING WHEEL.We read Caterpillars and we had to find 8 key words. We used the PEEK strategy to help because it was a non-fiction book.

By Grace Papagianis and Hayley Dafilis

I wrote "Some caterpillers eat gum leaves" and "All caterpillars eat lots of food"also Butterflies can turn into moths" "They can grow out of their skin"

Hayley's group completed the THIEVES strategy. With the THIEVES strategy we have to write down the facts that are most important. Like thieves we only take the good stuff!  We read about the Red Kangaroo and we wrote all the facts we could. 

We enjoy learning

ANZAC DAY

We have been learning about the ANZAC spirit and why ANZAC DAY is such an important day for every Australian.  Lest we forget.

Some of our classmates have been very busy today writing some amazing poems about their learning.

Hannah.

ANZAC

March, march, march,

As they walk.

Fight, fight, fight

As they save of lives.

Shoot, shoot, shoot,

As they save our lives.

Cry, cry, cry

As they die.

Tahlia

March, march,

As the soldiers march along

Shoot, shoot

As the bullets fly by

Cry, cry

As all the soldiers die.

Listen, listen,

As we all stop.

Lest we forget.

Nicole

March, march,

As the soldiers march to war

Fight, fight,

As they fight along bravely.

Shoot, shoot,

the bullets fly by

Cry, cry

As the soldiers die.

Our Excursion.

Today we visited hands-on habitats at LaTrobe University.  We learnt so many new things from our tour guide, Shannon.

He explained the three habitats that they were trying to establish at the LaTrobe Wildlife Sanctuary being Aerial, Aquatic and Grasslands.

 We walked through the beautiful sanctuary being careful to remain on the foot paths and be still and quiet   to listen for animals.  We did not have any success during our first hour tour............but it was early days.

We all gathered around and listened as Shannon told us all about sugar gliders, we then had to become sugar gliders, building and protecting out nests.

After this we went to learn about the habitats we had been exploring and played a fun game that highlighted the importance of protecting our habitats from introduced species- especially humans!

But the highlight of the day was after lunch when we explored the sanctuary and found kangaroos resting, feeding and stretching not too far away from our lunch time stop.  We were all amazed watching the kangaroo eating very politely with his paws, picking and lifting leaves to their mouths.

We also had the great opportunity to follow an emu along the path.  He was quiet a distance away nibbling on some grub.  Next thing we knew he was heading right towards us for a photo opportunity.  lol.  Check out the photos tomorrow.

Please stay tuned as over the next few days I will asked all the children to type in their ideas and experiences from the excursion and add lots of photos and videos to go with them!

He is Risen!

We have now began the Easter season and it is an exciting time in our church year.  We have our Alleluia back in our Mass and a new Pascal candle to guide us.

In our classroom we have made our own candles to guide our faith journey and reflect our ideas about Jesus who has Risen from the dead.

The childen were given overhead paper and asked to draw and/or trace images of Jesus onto the paper.  They then brainstormed words to write on their paper.  The children used CD/DVD makers so that their images did not smudge.  We then stapled our paper into a circle and placed around a tea light candle.  The image below is our final product.

Grace-: I really liked drawing all the pictures onto the overhead paper and using the special pens.  I choice a picture of Jesus with words alleluia around him.

Christian-: Drawing the pictures from the photocopies was great.  I choice some ideas about Easter to add to my work.  It looks really amazing.

Caleb-: I liked using all the signs of Jesus Rising to make my candle glow. 

Our Very Amazing Race.

Amazing Race equals Amazing FUN!

As part of our writing program, we had An Amazing Race around the school.  We had clue cards and road blocks all the works.  At the end everyone decided that this was great fun.  The purpose was to write a recount about a shared experience and the recounts have been extremely enjoyable to read.

Our second road block had has running as fast as we could.  Our very fastest Dante reads our next clue.

The race is on!

Another road block!  Sand castles.  Saved by the bad weather we return to class as winners.  Our reward 10 minutes of extra play, but on the senior adventure for extra fun!.

Living With An Open Heart.

Our school focus for this year is Living With An Open Heart.  In Term One we are doing this by welcoming everyone into our learning space.  We started this year by reading Matthew's Gospel and then creating our own open hearts.  Some of these are displayed below.

They look amazing displayed on the back wall of our classroom.  Have had some emails about making a 3D heart!  I think this would be an amazing way to start Term Two.  I will have a practice over the school holidays!  Please email any art ideas you may have.  Mrs.Smith.

Welcome Year Two 2012

Welcome to our 2012 Blog page.  We are so glad to see so much interest in our blog page and can not wait to start adding your ideas.

Our Class.