What can we mix with water to make a new substance?

This was the Science question that 2V investigated this week. We conducted experiments to see what we could mix with water to make a new substance. Mrs B mixed sand, flour, sugar and salt with water and we noticed some different changes. Sand and flour did not dissolve in the water and are insoluble substances. Salt and sugar do dissolve in water and are called soluble substances. These two substances make a new solution - sugary water and salty water! We even  got to taste our new solutions!

Too Many Pears

2V have been learning about the structure and language features of a Narrative. A Narrative has a beginning, a problem, 2 or 3 events, a resolution for the problem and an ending. Yesterday we read Too Many Pears where Pamela the cow has a problem with eating pears. Amy comes up with a great plan to fix Pamela's problem. Do you know what she did?

Making Jelly

Did you know that some materials can be changed into something that has different properties? This week in 2V we conducted a Science experiment to find out what happens when you add boiling water to jelly crystals. The photo will give you the answer - we made yummy jelly!

2V performed "The Light of the World" Liturgy yesterday in the Church for friends and families. As a class we were celebrating the Light of Jesus in our world through prayer and song.

Making Materials Change

Welcome back everyone to Term 4 here at SJV. We've had such a busy week with Swimming lessons on Wednesday, practice for our class Liturgy and lots of class work. On Tuesday we started our Term 4 Science Unit - How do Materials Change? We learnt that materials are what things are made of and can be either natural (rock, wood) or processed (made by people). 2V then spent some time changing materials by cutting, folding, rolling, stretching and shaping. Try the cool Science Game below where you have to group materials. 

SCIENCE GAME

Jump Off

On Monday all of Year 2 performed a skipping routine for the SJV Jump Off. The Jump Off was part of the Jump Rope for Heart program where we also raised money to help the Heart Foundation.

Raw Art

This week in 2V we had a teacher from Raw Art who taught us about Abstract Art. Abstract Art is a painting using line, shape and colour. Leonna showed us step by step how to make an Amazing Abstract Art using black texta and watercolours. We even splattered paint over our work at the end and the result was some very amazing abstract art!

Dragon Acrostic Poem

Dragons are fierce.
Roaring dragons. Run, run, run.
Always breathing fire.
Go very fast.
Order some armour.
Never smile at a dragon.
Some dragons are still alive. WATCH OUT!

Book Week

This week at SJV we have had lots of different events at our school. On Wednesday we had a Book Week parade where we got to dress up as our favourite book character. Gabriel was dressed as 'The Stroogle' and won the Year 2 prize.

After the Book Week parade we had the SJV Talent Show. Claudia and Cooper from 2V performed a mime where two friends had a food fight.

Today we had a special performance from Sam the Magician. He did the most amazing magic that we have ever seen here at SJV. He even made Pip the dove disappear!

EKKA Excursion

SJV Feast Day Celebrations

Mermaids

This week in our Fantasy Fun Unit 2V have been learning about Mermaids. Did you know that Mermaids are imaginary sea creatures that have a tail like a fish and the body of a woman. We played a game on the computer where we cleaned up the ocean for a mermaid, we put on a tail like a mermaid and jumped around in a jumping sack, we painted a picture of a mermaid and we did a science experiment where we watched mermaids (raisins) float to the surface and sink to the bottom of an ocean. WOW!!!!

Maths, Snakes and Monsters

What a busy week in 2V it has been. We have been hard at work in Maths Groups learning to add two digit numbers. Here's an addition problem to solve - 76 + 22 = ?

In our Poetry Unit this week Mrs B read us a poem about a Taipan in a Frypan and we had to illustrate the poem using the information we had heard in the poem. What great illustrators we have in 2V!

We have been busy talking about monsters all week! We have written a poem about a monster, coloured in a monster for display in the classroom and made a monster out of playdough.

Fantasy Fun

Welcome back everyone to Term 3. This term in our Unit work we are learning about Creatures of Fantasy like monsters, giants, witches, dragons and mermaids. Yesterday we talked about what we already know and what we would like to know more about. Did you know that dragons can breath fire, mermaids can swim under water, witches can be pretty, giants are very tall and monsters can look weird.

Big Feet and Orange Day

It has been so busy in 2V this week. We have been busy working on a maths investigation about how big Year 2 feet are. We used blocks to measure the area of a tracing of our right foot and then we collected the data into a graph to discover some amazing things. Matthew had the biggest foot, Cooper had the smallest foot and the difference between them was 20 blocks. Most children had a foot area of 28 blocks and Mrs B's foot measured 41 blocks.

Yesterday 2V presented their written persuasions on Moreton Bay to their Year 4 buddies. They did a wonderful job persuading their buddies to do the right thing and look after Moreton Bay.

Wednesday was Orange Day where we wore orange clothes to school and made a gold coin donation to help save the endangered orangutans.

Have a great winter holiday 2V!

News Time and Bee Bots

On Wednesday 2V had some great items for News Time. Mathew had a wonderful helicopter that he had made and Ruby bought in a bear that she found on her recent holiday to Los Angeles.

Today in Maths groups we practised our directions - left, right, forward and backwards - using Bee Bots. These are small, robot bees who can be programmed to move in any direction. We even set up a course for the Bots to move along.

Looking after our Marine Environment

2V watched this persuasive advertisement yesterday. The ad is trying to persuade people to make better choices about products used in the home.

Time and Persuasion

This week in 2V we have spent all week in maths learning about telling the time - o'clock, half past,quarter to and quarter past. We used clocks and played games to help us to remember how to tell the time in these different ways.

Yesterday 2V had to persuade Mrs B to give the class more free time. Everyone wrote a very good persuasion with great openings, strong arguments and fabulous conclusions about why they should have more free time. Mrs B wrote her own persuasion about why 2V already have too much free time. After listening to eveyone's persuasion it was decided that 2V would have free time on Friday - 2V were very persuasive!

St Helena Island - Digging up the Past!

2V visited St Helena Island yesterday to dig up the past and to help the Professor and the Doctor to save the island from being made into a holiday resort! We found some amazing old objects including a cannon ball, bottle, axe head and a turtle shell. We surveyed the island and visited the Lime Kiln, the Children's Cemetery, the Prisoner's Cemetery and the old Well. The boat trip over and back was smooth and we learnt even more about Moreton Bay from Mr T.

St Helena Island excursion

Fractions, Sorry Day and Graffitti

It has been a very busy week in 2V. We have been learning about Fractions in Maths including halves, quarters and eighths. We made Fairy Bread which we then cut into two equal parts and then into four equal parts or quarters. Of course the best part was eating our bread!

On Thursday it was National Sorry Day and 2V presented their Prayer Assembly to the whole school. We prayed to God to help us to be kind to all people and we sang a song about being one nation.

Today we used a big piece of paper as a graffitti wall to publish all of our learnings from our Moreton Bay Unit. We could use words or drawings to present what we had learnt. We are now getting ready to write a Persuasion about why we should protect Moreton Bay.

Fair Share and Moreton Bay

This week in 2V we have been busy learning about Fair Share in Maths. Did you know that this is how we start to  learn about how to use division in number sentences. We shared pop sticks, plastic animals, counters and blocks to help us learn how to divide.

We have also learnt more about the Moreton Bay environment by looking at books that have stories and photographs about the history of the area. Yesterday we spent some time on the Library deck looking out over the Bay and writing down what we could see. We then watched a great video clip about Moreton Bay and discovered some amazing facts. Did you know that Moreton Bay is 3400 kilometres wide and has lots of people who visit the area from overseas.

Moreton Bay Explore

On Wednesday 2V went exploring Moreton Bay with 2S and 2J. Mr Mac also came along to help us learn some fantastic facts about the Bay and some of the creatures that live there. It was muddy and so much fun!

Mothers Day

2V have been busy making a special present for Mum's this week to help celebrate Mothers Day on Sunday. We hope that Mum's like what we have done and get great use out of the present.

Today we did some dot paintings of dolphins and turtles as part of our Unit work about Moreton Bay. We have been learning about the Quandamooka People of Moreton Bay and how they lived in the area and used the Bay as a source of food.

We wish all Mum's a wonderful day on Sunday.

Term 2

Welcome back everyone to Term 2! We started our week with Maths Groups and did lots of work on Place Value with numbers up to 1000. We also started our Religion Unit on the Power of Prayer where we had a look at our Sacred Space and the objects we use in that environment. Today we competed with the whole school in the Cross Country. It was muddy, hilly but lots of fun.

What is Prayer?

Today 2V talked about what they know about prayer. The Wordle we created lists all of the things that we do know and helped us to start off our new Religion Unit for Term 2 - The Power of Prayer.

Uptown Girl Dance

Take a look at 2V dancing to Uptown Girl. This video was taken during our school Dance Cart concert this week.

Dancing and Easter baskets

This is our last week at school before the Easter break and we have been busy finishing off Term 1 class work. On Tuesday we performed our Uptown Girl dance that we had learnt in Dance Cart for the whole school, our family and friends. We were fabulous!

Today is the last day of school before the holidays and Mrs T's Year 4 class came to help us make Easter baskets. We are hoping that the Easter bunny remembers to visit us sometime today to leave a surprise in our basket.

2V wish our family and friends a holy Easter and a super holiday!

Fish and Chip Friday

The Year 2 excursion to the park was a way to celebrate our 'You, Me, Us' Unit and to sit with our family and friends and have a lunch of fish and chips. At the same time we made a donation to Project Compassion and thought about all the people in the world who could not be doing what we were doing. It rained a little on the day but we still had a great play on the Spider Web playground and did lots of skipping. The Zooperdoopers were fantastic!

Fish and Chip Friday Wordle

Wordle - Fish and Chip Friday: "" Here is a Wordle that 2V put together about our Fish and Chip Friday excursion. In the wordle you will find verbs, nouns and adjectives about our day.

Sports Day and Graphs

On Friday we had our school Sports Day. We participated in fun activities like Poison Ball and Chase the Tail with everyone from Year 2. We also had running races where we had to run as fast as we could over either 60 metres or 80 metres. There was lots of cheering from the four school teams and the Red team won the day.

This week in Maths we have been learning how to collect data and display data using a graph. Yesterday we collected data about different coloured counters and today we used Fruit Loops. We have used both a Bar Graph and a Column Graph to display our data.

Values and Seasons

This week in Maths we have been busy learning about months and seasons. We have played lots of different games and activities to help us remember the months of the year and what months match to seasons. We have played YES and NO Month Quizz and Month and Seasons Memory. Do you know what season we are in right now?

In our Writing with Mrs Juler session today in the Library we continued to plan our story about our favourite day out with our family. We can't wait to start writing our Personal Narrative next week.

Today in our Unit Work we talked about Team Values. A value is something that is important and useful and includes things like kindness, excellence, forgiveness and trust. As a class we decided that it is important for our class team to have the values of kindness, honesty, courage, respect, trust, friendliness, love and care.

Number stories and St Patrick's Day

This week in Maths groups we worked on number stories. We read stories and then had to write addition or subtraction number sentences to match. Here's one for you to try - I found 8 shells on the beach on Monday. On Tuesday I found 5 more shells. How many shells did I find altogether?

Today we celebrated St Patrick's Day. Did you know that when Patrick was 16 he was captured by pirates and taken to Ireland. He looked after sheep in the mountains and he was a brave man. He showed love by helping people to learn about Jesus.