Book Week and our Litter Tree

This week was Book Week and we celebrated with a Book Parade. The theme this year was to come as your favourite book character or a "jungle safari". 2BP had a great time dressing up and introducing our book characters to the school. We even had a visit from Tashi and Jack!

As part of our "Love My Planet" Unit work we built a litter tree. We counted all the rubbish that we had put in the bin during the day and for every piece we put one leave onto our Litter Tree. WOW!!! Look at all our leaves on our tree. Imagine if all that rubbish had been left on the ground or on the floor in our classroom - what a mess it would be.

Miss Lily and Streets Ahead

This week in 2BP we read a story about Miss Lily and her Fabulous Pink Feather Boa. The feather boa is the most wonderful thing the Last Potoroo (a small mammal found in different parts of Australia) has ever seen. The Last Potoroo takes a little of the feather boa as she feels for the first time in her life that she can do anything and everything when she is wearing it! At the end of the story the Last Potoroo say's SORRY and is forgiven by Miss Lily. After reading this story we decided that there are four steps in RECONCILING when you do something wrong. 1. Admit the wrong 2. Say "sorry" 3. Make up 4. Ask to be forgiven.

This week our class learnt some great road safety lessons from Thud who lives at RACQ. Thud told us that before we cross the road we should always STOP LOOK LISTEN and THINK!

Grafitti Wall

This week in 2BP we looked at the problem - What can we do about Climate Change? The class thought back to their GAS! excursion and what we had learnt to help us discover some of the answers. We then came up with our own ideas on what we could do about Climate Change and we put them all down on a big piece of butchers paper - our Grafitti Wall! Everyone had two or three great ideas that would help care for the planet.

And from Word Study today - What kind of clothing does a house wear? Address!!!

2BP WIN THE WWW TROPHY

This week 2BP won the Walking, Wheelie, Wednesday Trophy because the whole class travelled by bus on Wednesday - it was to and from our GAS! excursion. We were so proud to receive the trophy and it has been displayed at the front of our classroom all week. What class will win next week we wonder?

The Art Show was a great success last Friday. One of our class Mum's won our Boat sculpture during the art auction. She has happily donated the boat back to the school and it will hang in the library overlooking the Bay - exactly where a boat should be!

GAS!

Last week 2BP went on an excursion to see GAS! at the Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre. We finally got to see and meet Billie and Jeanie. While we watched the show we learnt all about the bad gases - carbon dioxide and methane, and how trees are like a pair of giant lungs that clean the air of the bad gases and make oxygen for us to breath. After the show we participated in a number of workshops. First we visited the GAS! show backstage and Ailish tried on the Mike the Car Salesman suit! Meryl, who played the character of Billie played some Drama games with the class and we all had a turn at "Kids Go Green" on stage. We then tried some Tree Watching with Ron and shared some observations of what we had seen. Next was a visit to Lucinda, who played the character of Jeanie where we also met Daniel and learnt a little more about photosynthesis, fossil fuels and how important trees are for the environment. All in all it was a fantastic excursion! We had a great day.