The students are beginning to settle in well into the year 2 neighbourhood and are relishing the time they have to participate in Project and Provocations. Today in our reflection time, we showed the students photos we took of them whilst they were working and asked them to explain to us what […]
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At the end of Week 1, students were introduced to a provocation that will be set up in the neighbourhood in Week 2 – a Mystery Treasure Table! We have asked students to think about a ‘treasure’ that represents who they are – a small trinket that they can bring into the neighbourhood from home
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A huge welcome to all of the students and parents who will be with us in the Year 2 Neighbourhood for 2018! We have had a great few days to start our year, with the students quickly settling in well to the different and exciting new surroundings. Below are a few housekeeping items that we
This week the students have started learning about narratives. The students will read lots of narratives over the term to explore the features of these texts. This week students have explored how a narrative is structured into three main stages. We talked about the introduction or orientation stage where the author introduces the characters and
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In Week 7, the students of the year 2 neighbourhood went on an excursion to the Immigration Museum. Our big questions to the students were “Why do people leave their country?”, “Why would people come to Australia” and “What aspects of culture do people bring into countries when they migrate?”. The students
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This morning our Art Studio was transformed into a photography studio, filled with delicious looking and smelling treats that will be in our neighbourhood cookbook! About half of the neighbourhood got cooking over the weekend and brought in their recipes for the photoshoot, which will be a great addition alongside students’ drawings for their recipe.
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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 year, we have seen the introduction of our new school values – Our Story. Last term we looked extensively at the ‘One Community’ value – and understanding what it means to be a part of the year 2 community. This term, we are focussing our attention on ‘Strong and Capable Children’. We posed a
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Last week, the students of the year 2 neighbourhood made the short trip down to the Melbourne Museum. The focus of our excursion was to visit the First People’s exhibit – Bunjilaka – on the ground floor and the students went in with the big questions “What is Culture” and “What special things go into
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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