Living, Non-Living, Natural and Man-Made

This week 2BP spent time investigating our environment here at school. The environment is the world around us and can include the air, water, plants, animals and land. We have learnt that some of the things in our environment have been made by people and some things are natural. We also discovered that these things can be either living or non-living as well. We had some time to go out and explore the school environment and see what we could find that was natural, man-made, living and non-living. Take a look at our photos and see if you can classify which group it belongs to.

Old Tom and 3D Shapes

2BP started the week looking again at 3D shapes. We learnt what a face and corner were on these shapes and we had to make a cube, cylinder and cone out of playdough. Very tricky!

This week we also had a visit from Leigh Hobbs. Leigh is the author and illustrater of The Old Tom, Horrible Harriet and Mr Chicken books. He taught us how to draw Old Tom and Mr Chicken line by line. It was so much fun and everybody had their very own picture of Old Tom and Mr Chicken.

Alistair our class bear had an adventure of his own this week. He went down to the oval for a play! We had to write the events as they happened in order - first he played in the sandpit, next he had a slide, then he kicked a ball and last he had a drink. This was good practise for writing a Recount which we are learning about this term.

The Great Outdoors

Welcome back to school and Term 2 of the school year. This term 2BP are learning about The Great Outdoors. We will be looking at some of the different environments we could go camping at like the beach, mountains, desert and bush. We will also be sharing stories about camping outdoors and what it is like during the different seasons outside.

This week in Maths Groups we learnt about ordinal numbers. Have a look at the photo where we had to put jigsaw pieces together from 1st to 20th place.

What an exciting term we have planned! Stay tuned for more great news from 2BP.

Fish and Chip Friday

Last Friday 2BP walked down to the local park to have a Fish and Chip lunch with their friends and family. As part of the day we collected a gold coin donation for Project Compassion. We also remembered all those children in the world who are not as lucky as us and cannot go and have fish and chips for lunch at any time. We had a great play in the park with our friends but the walk up the hill back to school was not very good at all!

This week we had our last News Time session for Term 1. Fox had for his News Time the biggest bag of marbles we have ever seen. There were thousands of marbles! The marbles belonged to his Great Grandfather and to have that many marbles he must have been a fantastic player to win so many.

Today is our last day of Term 1 and we are just about ready to go on our Easter holidays. Our fingers are crossed that the Easter bunny finds our classroom before the end of the day to deliver some eggs in our Easter bags that we made this morning. 2BP wishes everybody a safe and holy Easter.

Family Graph and Ditto

Boy were we busy in 2BP this week!In Maths we looked at what a graph can do. Did you know that a graph can present information or data in a way that is easy to understand? 2BP collected data about how many people were in their family. Students had to draw a picture of all family members and we glued these pieces of paper onto a huge picture graph. At the end we could easily see that four people in a family was the winner. Our graph looks so cool don't you think?

This week we also had a visit from Ditto. Ditto comes from Bravehearts and he helped us to think about all the things we need to do to keep safe. Did you know that we all have the right to feel safe with people and when we have "no" feelings our body can give us warning signs. Goose bumps, butterflies in the tummy, fast heart and wobbly knees can tell us that we are having a "no" feeling. "Yes" feelings on the other hand tell us that we feel safe. We need to remember that it's ok to say "No" if you feel unsafe or unsure.