Excitement and expectation was in the air on Tuesday afternoon. The year 2 two students sat patiently in the meeting space, ready for the big announcement……..who was their new buddy for the week?!?! Students had reflected on Monday afternoon about the Buddy Project. Why exactly do we do this in the year 2 neighbourhood? What […]
On the second last Friday of term, the year 2 children presented their camping production at assembly. The children have been working on the production for some time with Deb and Tim as part of their music program. The children have been thinking about special places as part of their inquiry and the stories that connect us to places. Going
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For weeks leading up to our assembly, our wonderful music teacher Deb and gorgeous parent helper Gabi, assisted the students in making artwork for their production. The very involved process included choosing appropriate images for the students to draw – which ended up with the idea of ‘ the crazier the better’, tracing over them,
The students reflected on our inquiry into the concept of place. We brainstormed and documented what we had learnt from our projects and the workshops the children participated in. The children were then asked to come up with some overarching statements that reflected their developing understandings. The question that was put to them was: From all
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This term in maths we have been investigating arrays and multiplication. Students have been involved in workshops, target teaching, provocations and investigations all surrounding multiplication and arrays. Students went on an ‘array walk’ to identify arrays around the school – we took photos and drew sketches in our maths books. Whilst participating in target
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We had our final round of presentations today – a huge thanks to Kitty, Atticus and Soushi who finished us off! Over the next few days, all of the presentations will be placed on the blog – so click on the country project page in the menu bar and peruse the amazing work the year 2’s
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Last week the children made the short trek across the road to Railway House. Before leaving the children were asked to identify some of the services the Railway House provides the local community and that they have personally experienced. The children spoke about such things as having picnics and birthday parties there (Odessa & Olivia), walking their dog (Myki), attending Italian School (Eleonora) and weekly
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Our first week of presentations have come to a close. The students of the year 2 neighbourhood pulled out all the stops and presented some amazing work. Students not only displayed their knowledge of what interesting things went into making their country, but also the personal connection they had. It was fascinating to
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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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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