Research for our Country Projects is well underway, and students have been using Atlases, books from the library, and the internet to research and gather facts about places that are special to them around the world. Last week, we started to think about landmarks in our country. We first brainstormed what the word landmark […]
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This Friday instead of a whole school assembly each neighbourhood is holding their own assembly. This is an opportunity for the Year Two Neighbourhood to come together to share, perform, and celebrate in a more intimate setting. It’s also a chance for students who may be a little shy to perform in front of a
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This term, the Year 2s have started to look at different countries around the world and have started to research and collect information about places that they have a connection to or are interested in. Last term, Jen introduced the students to a great picture story book called ‘The Travel Bug’ by Benjamin Gilmour. We
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At the end of last term, we introduced a ‘Neighbourhood Map’ on a table in our Inquiry Area, that shows the school and surrounding suburbs. Today students had the opportunity to place their photo on a location on the map that they had a connection with and then write about this connection – for example, students chose places
Dear Parents/Carers, We have recently noticed that students have been bringing in ‘Bey Blades’ toys to play with at lunch and recess, and it has been brought to our attention that some of these toys have gone missing. This follows on from a number of incidents in the last few weeks where Pokemon cards have
Last week was the inaugural gathering of the ‘Friday Lunchtime Drawing Club’, a lunchtime club that has been organized by a number of students in the Year 2 Neighbourhood. It is open for any students across Prep – Year 2 who are keen to spend their Friday lunchtime practicing their drawing skills. Kitty, Odessa, and
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This week the Year 2 Neighbourhood will be doing a lot of work getting their ‘My Place’ presentations ready – a lot of students are excited about learning how to make power point presentations, and others are planning on making models, books, and posters. If you have photos of your child’s special place that they would like to
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This week, we talked about how to play safely with each other at lunchtime and recess. Keith clarified the school-wide guidelines regarding students playing with sticks, and as a neighbourhood we will be reiterating these expectations to students regularly. Stick structures can be built along the northern border of the oval (but not near the
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We continued to look at descriptive language last week, using photos and soundscapes as stimuli to build shared descriptions of the features of a particular place. Students also drew and discussed how they connected to these places through their own experiences. After a shared reading of ‘Heart in a Bottle’ by Oliver Jeffers, we used
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Last week, students participated in a number of literacy workshops that focused on descriptive language. They began to explore adjectives through writing, reading, and drawing as a way of adding detail to describe the features of a particular place, as well as to express and develop ideas. Students also looked at ‘text to self’ connections,
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