Yesterday students brought home an information note about our upcoming photography session for the cookbook and details about printing. The photography session has been organized for the morning of MONDAY 4th SEPTEMBER, so that families have the opportunity to make their recipes over the weekend and bring a sample of it on Monday if they […]
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This week we continued our investigation into procedural texts, starting with a workshop in the kitchen making Honey Joys. Ruby is contributing this recipe to the cookbook, and it was a great opportunity for students to work in groups to measure out the ingredients and follow the method that was outlined in the recipe. 56
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This term, the Year 2’s have started to look at procedural texts. So far, we’ve started with investigating cookbooks and recipes, and came up with some statements as a class to describe the organization, structure and features of these texts. This week, we looked at another type of procedural text – instructions on how to
This term, the Year 2 Neighbourhood will be going on two excursions! In Week 4, on Thursday 10th August, we will visit the Melbourne Museum. We will deepen our learning from last term surrounding how we make connections to places, indigenous artwork and dreamtime stories by investigating the culture and traditions of Victoria’s Aboriginal people.
The Intensive Swimming Program for 2017 starts on Monday 7th August. Two forms have been sent home with students today (a blue form with payment details, and a white form indicating the times and dates of the swimming sessions). The Year 2’s will have their swimming on a Monday, Wednesday, and Friday over two weeks,
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Following on from the success of the Year 2 Assembly presentation at the end of last term, the Year 2’s have been asked to share their learning at tomorrow’s assembly. We will be sharing some of our country projects, and presenting a song that they have been working on with Deb in music. Some
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The Year Twos were eager to find out their new buddies for the first week of Term 3, and have been finding out things about each other, and what they have in common, through different drawing activities. This afternoon, after starting to look at cook books and recipes in a workshop earlier in the day,
Following on from all of the amazing presentations from parents in our community about their connection to different places around the world, this Friday we had the enormous pleasure of watching a number of students share dances, singing, and instrumental pieces with their peers and parents as part of the Year 2 Neighbourhood Assembly. It
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Over the past few weeks we have been fortunate enough to have some of our wonderful Year 2 parents come into our neighbourhood and share through, stories, experiences, photos and artefacts the connections they have to other countries. We are all so thankful to learn more about the different parts of the world that the
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The Year Twos had a lot of fun last Wednesday afternoon completing laps around the school for the PHPS annual Walkathon event. While the day started with a bit of drizzle, it cleared up by lunchtime and the sun was out as students made their way around the and through the school grounds. Thank you