Fairy Bread and Caritas

This week in 2BP we talked a lot in Maths about half. We investigated how many equal parts you needed to divide something into to have a half. We found pictures in magazines and made posters showing different objects cut in half and we even made Fairy Bread. We had to cut our bread in half (there are different ways to do this) and of course we got to eat it!

Today we have just finished walking around the school oval three times for Caritas K's. This is to help us understand that in some countries, like Cambodia, people need to walk a long way to get their water for the day. Our class carried teddy bears on their backs and we were very thirsty when we finished our walk. We are very lucky here in Australia that we only have to walk to a tap to get our water.

Skittles and Good Choices

This week in 2BP we did lots of work in Maths on subtraction and difference. We played a game called Take Away Skittles where we had to knock down as many skittles as we could and write a matching subtraction number sentence on the whiteboard. No one got a strike out where they knocked all ten of the skittles over (10 - 10 = 0) but we did have lots of fun.

We talked a lot this week about what being part of a team means to us. We decided as a class that T E A M stands for Together Everyone Achieves More! Our class also learnt about a Good Choices Plan to help us decide the right choice to make when we are faced with a problem. We played a great game about a family camping holiday where good choices, like helping to look after your little sister, rewarded you with moving extra spaces on the game.

World Maths Day, Keyboards and being Fair

This week in 2BP we have been very busy. In Word Study we used laminated computer keyboards to help us to practice our Word Wall Words. This was fun but a little tricky finding the correct letters!

Wednesday was World Maths Day and everybody played Live Mathletics with children from all over the world. We tested our maths skills and knowledge with students from China, the USA, Spain and other schools in Australia. 2BP had a great time winning as many points as they could for our school.

In Unit Work this week we talked about what being fair is like. We worked in small groups and talked about six different stories where we had to decide if they were fair or unfair. We then had to think about what 'fair' looked like in colours, patterns and pictures.

WOW - we need the weekend to rest!!!

NEWS TIME

We have had a busy time in 2BP this week. There were 10 words on our Word Wall that we needed to learn how to spell and read. We also played a cool game called "Don't Break the Ice" where you had to remember how to spell all the words on our Word Wall Word - WOW!

This week we also had some fun together during Unit Work. We didn't actually do any writing or reading about our You, Me, Us Unit but instead we just played some games together and had some FUN!!!

News Time was great again this week and Group 3 students had their chance to bring something from home and talk about it with the class. You can see from the photographs above that the things students had were fabulous.

We also started Mathletics as part of our Maths Groups. We are starting to get to know our Passwords and Usernames and how best to work through the activites and games on the site.

WOW - what a week in 2BP!!!!

WELCOME TO 2010

Welcome to our new Year 2 students! What a great start we have had to the new year. Both of us are so excited to have you in our class and enjoy coming to work every day to see you.

This term you will be learning how to leave comments and negotiate the blog before next term making your own blog!

This week you were spectacular in counting to thirty. Our fun activity involved making an echidna with thirty spikes. From this activity we discovered there were a number of ways to show this number.

Lent... This week Ash Wednesday began our Churches season of Lent. You were so great at making a list of things we can give up as a way of thinking about Jesus.