Our Inquiry has moved into looking at natural systems in our world. The students have started to investigate plants and their systems. We have spent the week thinking about what plants need to grow. Here is a snapshot of how our inquiry looked this week. At the beginning of the week we planted our snow […]
Literacy This week in literacy the focus has been letter writing. The students discussed the purpose of letters and explored the features. They then considered how voice can be included to make a letter more effective. This will support the taking action stage of the inquiry process. The 5/6 Team
In the year one neighbourhood, we have been participating in the Prep Postal Service! (read about it over at the Prep’s blog!) Every day students have been writing letters and excitedly putting them in the post box and waiting for the Prep postal workers to collect and deliver! We have created a book that explains
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Stepping into the year 2 neighbourhood today was like stepping into a book. Characters from many different books came to life as we dressed up to celebrate Book Week. Willy Wonka was there handing out sweets. A Minion caused havoc but was saved by Elsa from Frozen. The 52 Story Treehouse book grew legs and wandered
On Wednesday we had a visit from renowned author Nova Weetman, who has written books such as Frankie and Joely and A Hot Cold Summer. She explained how to write a choose your own adventure story and worked with us to create our own story. We learnt how to bring our ideas together to plan
Yesterday year one neighbourhood held their Potato Olympics! It was a fun filled morning of 50m dashes, long jump and diving! It was great to get out in the fresh air and do some maths. Here is a quick run down of our morning 🙂 LOOK AT THAT SHOT!!!!! The crowd goes
“Due to the Intensive Swimming program on Friday, BOOK WEEK DRESS UP AND PARADE HAS NOW CHANGED TO THURSDAY 25th AUGUST The BOOK WEEK PARADE is now on Thursday morning. Harry Potter? Billie B. Brown? Tintin? Pippi Longstocking? Whoever your favourite BOOK character is, you need to get busy. On Thursday, August 25th the JSC are having
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Inquiry! The year 2 inquiry into systems has taken a small turn now from looking at how cause and effect works, to thinking about how and why things have changed over time. We have been exploring changes in technology, music (genre, recording and playback systems), and changes in our lives over time. We have asked
BOOK SWAP – WEDNESDAY AUGUST 24 To raise money for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, we’re holding a HUGE BOOK SWAP on Wednesday August 24. Bring a book you don’t want anymore (or lots of books) and swap it for another one (or lots of new ones). You need a gold coin per book you want
BOOK SWAP – WEDNESDAY AUGUST 24 To raise money for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, we’re holding a HUGE BOOK SWAP on Wednesday August 24. Bring a book you don’t want anymore (or lots of books) and swap it for another one (or lots of new ones). You need a gold coin per book