Bread Making

Today 2Bp made bread in our classroom! We cheated a little and used a breadmaking machine but we spent time talking about how we would have made bread in the past without a machine and electric oven. We were amazed at how the ingredients of flour, salt, water and yeast changed into the most fantastic looking loaf of bread. Our classroom smelt like a bakers and it made our mouth's water! We also had a go at making butter using a container with a lid, cream and a couple of marbles. A great success and it also tasted wonderful. After Mrs B cut the bread students could put fresh butter, honey or syrup on top. There was not one little crumb left after everyone had a taste.

Book Character Day

Yesterday we had a special day where we could come dressed up as our favourite book character. All the children from prep to Year 7 dressed as a variety of different characters. Some characters that visited us for the parade where Snow White, Tashi, Mr Strong, Fairies, Wally from Where's Wally, Cat in the Hat, Captain Underpants, pirates, Mr Saucepan from The Faraway Tree, Cinderella, Indiana Jones, Ben 10 and the Year seven's came with Miss Frizzle in their magic school bus. It was a great parade with so many characters and prizes won for the best dressed in each year. We had activities with the rest of the school in our middle session where we had one of the short listed books read to us in our allocated classrooms and did a fun activity sheet afterwards. It was a great day with teachers and students having fun dressing as a book character.

The Way We Were

Our Integrated Unit for Term 4 is 'The Way We Were' where 2BP will be looking at our past and how our lives have changed over the years. We have set up a display table in the back of our classroom with some interesting old wares. Some of our parents went to school here and have brought in old school books, uniforms, class photos, sewing samples and newsletters. Other items include things like a typewriter, dial phone, hand beaters, a meat grinder, old cameras and even a John Paul Young record! This collection of old 'things' has added so much value and hands-on experience to our Unit that sometimes it's hard to put them down to start work at our desks!

We have been bouncing!

Well, this term is bouncing along beautifully!
We have been investigating bouncing balls!
Some great hypothesis work going on as well as children debate why some balls bounce more often than others. We know that the mass of the ball does not dictate the number of bounces...

Welcome Back!

Welcome back for our last school term for 2008!
We hope you all enjoyed your September school holidays and are all relaxed for our busy final term.
We thought that we should let you know that there are only 12 weeks until Christmas.
So the countdown is on until the Christmas holidays!
That's scary!!!! :)
Where has this year gone?