Bee-Bot collects rubbish

This week in Maths, 2S have been giving instructions to program a Bee-Bot to land on a specific spot on a grid on the floor. A Bee-Bot is a bright yellow floor robot that can be programmed to move forwards or backwards, and turn left or right. Our Bee-Bot has been collecting rubbish and moving it to a rubbish bin.

Mass

In Maths we have been learning about mass - how much an object weighs. We have been busy weighing things in our classroom to figure out how much mass there is. We have been using balance scales, kitchen scales, kilogram and gram weights. Today we weighed the Prayer table Bible and discovered that it weighed exactly 1 kilogram!

Advent

This week in Religion we have been learning about Advent which is the first season of the Church year. Advent begins four Sundays before Christmas and ends on Christmas Eve. The symbols of Advent include the colour purple or dark blue and the Advent wreath.

What are the features of a shopping centre?

Today we started our Geography task where we used the data we had collected on how many times we visited different shops during a week. We added our data to class data to show us shops that we visited the most and shops we visited the least.

We are now ready to compare the features of our local shops to another shopping centre (Manly Harbour Village 7 Day Markets) and to plan a new shopping centre. We have to make sure we include ALL important features that a shopping centre would need.

Soil Investigation

Today in Science we investigated two different types of soil. We used a magnifying glass to really look at the soil samples and we asked questions - what colour is the soil, what does the soil feel like and what does the soil look like?

Grandparents Day 2014

Today we celebrated Grandparents Day at SJV. Grandparents were invited to visit classrooms and share a liturgy with the school. We welcomed lots of Grandparents to our classroom.

Technology Museum

2S have been making a museum in our classroom as part of our History unit this term. Students have been bringing in old objects from home that show how technology has changed over time. Can you name all of the objects that we have in our museum so far?

Saying Sorry & Forgiving

In Term 3 we have learnt about forgiveness through the story of Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-9) and the story of Joseph and his brothers (Genesis 37).

Down by the Bay

This week in 2S we read a special book Down by the Bay written by Katrina Logan. It is a story about a boy and girl who meet down by the bay. As they grow to enjoy all the wonderful places found down by the bay, they also grow to love one another. We discovered that we knew places in the book like Pandanus Beach, Lighthouse Park and the Wynnum Jetty.

Bean growing

This week in 2S we planted a Lima Bean seed gently on cotton wool which we then wet with a little water. The jars with our bean have been placed in a sunny spot outside of Miss Babbage's classroom. We are hoping that with good growing conditions our bean will sprout soon!

Author visit

We were very lucky to have the author Narelle Oliver visit our school this week as part of Book Week celebrations. Narelle is the author of the well known book The Very Blue Thingamajig. She has written a new book that she read to us today and it had lots of Australian animals in the story. Narelle's new book is called Don't let a Spoonbill in the kitchen.

Book Week Parade

Today at SJV we dressed up as our favourite book character to celebrate Book Week. 2S looked fabulous dressed as a lots of different characters from lots of different books! We had great fun watching all of the classes in the parade and the teachers acting out King Pig.

Georgina visits

Georgina visited us in our classroom this week to show us the QUAC (Quandamooka Anthropology Club) trophy.  Year 2's were awarded this trophy for solving all the puzzle clues on our excursion to Stradbroke Island. Well done 2S!

Stradbroke Island Geography Excursion

On Thursday we travelled by boat to Minjerribah to follow clues to help us solve a puzzle about the Island. Katrina and Georgina were our Guides around the Island where we visited a famous tree, saw tools and weapons that the Quandamooka people used, explored a museum and heard Dreamtime stories from people who lived on the Island.

Raw Art

This week in 2S we had an artist from Raw Art visit our classroom. We used drawing, printing and chalk crayons to create our beautiful artwork.

Preparing for our Geography Excursion

Year 2's will be travelling by bus and ferry to North Stradbroke Island next Thursday for a Geography Excursion. Today we had a special visitor in our classroom from North Stradbroke Island who helped us prepare for our excursion. We also had to take the Anthropologist's Pledge:

I promise to solve puzzles of people past and present. To always do my best. To make meaning of history. I'm an Anthropologist!

Athletics Carnival

Prep, Year 1 and Year 2 students participated in their Athletics Carnival yesterday. The carnival was held at school on our oval and was a day full of jumping, running and playing games. Well done everyone!

Ditto's Keep Safe Adventure

Today 2S watched the Ditto Show. Ditto, who is a lion cub from Bravehearts, taught us how to know when we don't feel safe and how to act when this happens. The best thing to do is to run and tell someone.

Rolling Toy Car

2S have been making a rolling toy car in Science from cardboard, plastic milk bottle lids, straws and wooden skewers. We had to predict how our car would move and then test the car to see how fast and far it would roll. Our cars were awesome!

Flying Eraser

Today in Science we made a flying eraser to test if hard pushes or soft pushes work best. We discovered that the eraser flew further when we pushed the ruler hard because strong pushes make things go further.

Circular Rhythms

This week the whole school participated in a Music Incursion when Lucas Proudfoot visited SJV. Lucas told us about the didgeridoo and some students even had a chance to have a go at some of the instruments.

Manly War Memorial Information Plaque

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Lachlan

Alannah

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Flynn

Bronsan

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Aisha

Grace

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