Fozzie Ozzie Mozzie Shing Shang Dong

The votes are in for the Monster Project 2010 and Year 2's came 2nd! The top monster of 2010 is Tololosh-Africa and a Year 5 class from South Africa built this fantastic creature. Congratulations to everyone who helped build our incredible monster. Here is an Acrostic Poem that 2BP made about Fozzie Ozzie Mozzie Shing Shang Dong.

Mushy teeth and smelly breath.
On a jet ski he rides.
Not very scary.
Sky scraper tall and super.
Tomatoe red on his tail and wings.
Enormous, exciting and fun.
Round head and glasses to see.

Moreton Bay Adventure

Yesterday 2BP went on a Moreton Bay Adventure to the waterfront. We started by visiting the National Parks Office and listened to Darren who is a Park Ranger for Moreton Bay Marine Park. Darren told us about how special the Bay is and we saw some great pictures taken by photographers underwater.

Next we explored the waters of Moreton Bay with Mr Mac who told us what lived in the waters of the Bay. He had caught some creatures which we had a close look at using science beakers. We even caught fish on a fishing line and saw a huge mud crab!

Our last place to visit was the Coast Guard and Mr F took us through the building and showed us all the cool vessels that are used to rescue people and boats in trouble on the Bay. He had some great stories to share with us and told us how important the Coast Guard is in keeping everyone safe on the water.

Cubes, Prisms and Swimming

In maths this week we had to try and draw a 3D cube and prism on to a flat whiteboard. We had to carefully follow instructions step by step to draw our shapes. It was really hard but lots of fun!

On Thursday 2BP started swim lessons at a nearby pool. The day was rainy, cloudy and grey but the water was warm. After our lesson we had a little free time and got to go on the waterslide.

Fun with Maths and Monster Project

We have had so much fun in 2BP this week. First of all we went to a Fun with Maths workshop in the library where we played with lots of different maths equipment and games to find solutions to problems.

This week we finished building our monster parts and today we worked with 2R and 2M to put the monster all together. Our monster now lives in the library and we invite you to come and meet him. We are now deciding on a name for our monster and Mrs M has sent his photo into the Monster Project.

Prayer Flags and History

This week in 2BP we learnt about Prayer Flags and we all made one of our own. The class joined their Prayer Flags together and they now hang in our classroom.

In our Unit we investigated the history of the Moreton Bay area. We looked at photographs taken in the past of the Wynnum and Manly area and had to write what we could see. We shared our findings with the class and decided that it would have been fun in the past riding horses on Manly beach and living in a tent on the esplanade!

Our Monster making is going well. Our monster parts are looking great and we are getting ready to join our parts with the parts being made in 2R and 2W.

Moreton Bay and Monsters

This week in 2BP as part of our Unit work on Moreton Bay we made dolphin and turtle pictures to decorate our classroom. We also learnt how the Quandamooka People hunted for marine animals in Moreton Bay using canoes, fishing hooks and nets.

Today we started the first step in building parts for the Year 2 monster which is part of the global 2010 Monster Project. We have had much fun planning and designing our monster part with our partner and today we got to look at the materials we had collected and start to think about how to build the part. It was lots of fun!

The Metre, the Bay and a Birthday

Welcome back everybody to Term 4! 2BP started work straight away as we have a very busy and action packed 9 weeks of learning.

This term we are learning about Moreton Bay: Then and Now and will be looking at how this marine environment has changed over time. This week we began by reading some information about the Quandamooka People who were the Indigenous people who first lived in the Bay area. Did you know that Dugong was a favourite of the Quandamooka People? They ate the meat roasted and used the oil from the fat to rub on their skin.

In Maths we learnt how to measure a metre using wooden rulers and rolled newspaper as long as a metre. Can you believe that our classroom is more than 9 metres and our bookshelf is less than 1 metre!

Today we celebrated Mrs B's birthday which will be on Sunday the 10th of the 10th 2010! She shared some very yummy cakes with us and we sang 'Happy Birthday' very loudly. Thanks Mrs W and Ella for baking and bringing the cakes to school.

A Bible Story and a Red Car

It was News Time this week for Group 3 and Fox showed us his remote control car. It was big, red and went very fast. 2BP took it out for a spin on the blue area - WOW!

In Religion on Wednesday we talked more about the Bible story - The Feeding of the Five Thousand. We made a sea in our classroom and performed a role play showing how Jesus and his disciples spoke to the crowd and how a little boy shared his food with everyone.

Graphing and Count Us In

On Wednesday our school participated in the national Count Us In celebration. At 10.45am schools across Australia sang a song called Come Play Your Part. 2BP sang very loud and did some great actions to go with the song.

Today we looked at Graphs in Maths where we collected data about our birthdays. January is the most popular birthday month in our class with August and December having no sutdents celebrating a birthday. We also made a huge graph on how we travelled to school that day. Car travel was the winner by far!

Book Week and the Egg Drop

This week 2BP set a record for dropping an egg from 340 cm before it broke. Our egg was well covered with a shield made of bubble wrap, tissue paper and cardboard. It was so much fun seeing which groups egg survived the drop the best.

On Thursday we had our school Book Week Parade. 2BP had some great book character costumes like Ned Kelly, Wally, Hannah Montanah and Spider Man. Fox who was dressed as Ned Kelly won a prize for the best dressed in Year 2.

Egg Drop and Sheep

This week in 2BP we have been busy investigating how high we can drop an egg before it breaks. When we dropped an egg on a hard surface it broke at 7cm and on a soft surface at 38cm. On Wednesday we decided to conduct an experiment and to keep it a fair test we could only change one variable. We would make the outside of the egg stronger by making a shield out of materials like bubble wrap, tissue paper, cotton wool and sticky tape. Next week we will put our shields to the test to see how well they work.

Did you know that the word 'sheep' appears in the Bible 750 times? 2BP learnt that fact this week when we talked about the importance of sheep in Bible times and read a story about the lost sheep.

2BP go to the EKKA

There is only one thing we could write about this week from 2BP and that is our trip to the Ekka! We left early in the morning to catch the train to the Ekka grounds and started our day with a snack in the Enchanted Forest. After that we visited different pavilions including the cattle, Agricultural Market, Dairy Industry and the Animal Walk. We milked a cow, collected lots of free things to take home, ate fairy floss and saw baby animals. The best part of the day was the visit to the Showbag Pavilion where we got to buy a showbag with our own money. The train trip home gave us the chance to sit and look through our bags. It was a fantastic excursion.

Sport, Chickens and Capacity

What a busy week we have had in 2BP. This was the last week for the Henny Penny Chickens in 2R's classroom. We visited the chicks everyday and kept a journal of our observations. We couldn't believe how much the chicks grew in the few short days after they hatched and we are sad to see them leave the school.

Our school sport carnival was held on Wednesday and our three teams had a great day running, jumping and throwing. The weather was sunny most of the day with a little bit of rain.

Today in maths we played with water and rice to measure the capacity of different containers. We discovered that the bucket we used held the most water while the cup held the least amount. We had rice and water everywhere by the end of Maths Groups but we had lots of fun measuring!

Chickens and Music

This week in 2BP we saw 14 chickens hatched from eggs in the Henny Penny hatching area in 2R's classroom. It was so exciting seeing the little, wet chicks arrive in the world. There are now two black chicks and 12 yellow chicks in the pen and they are all so cute. The chicks are with us until next week and we will continue to observe them everyday to see changes. You can watch the chicks live by following the link from 2R's blog.

On Thursday we had a visit from the Nexus Art Performers and they were fabulous! They took us on a journey of world music using the song 'Humpty Dumpty'. Lots of students had to dress up and help with the different types of music. It was so cool.

Term 3

2BP all arrived safely back at school this week for the start of Term 3. It was so good to have everyone ready to get down to work and what a busy term it will be. 2BP are learning about the 'Farm to Table' in our Unit work and we are getting to know the Bible in our study of Religion.

This week in our Maths Groups we practised counting in tens. To help with this we built block towers using ten blocks in each tower. Students had to count in tens to make sure that they had 10 groups of ten blocks to make their final big tower of 100 blocks. To really see how long we could make our tower we joined everyone's block towers together and stretched them over the blue area outside our classroom. We used 2000 blocks to make what we think is the world record for a block tower!

Holiday Time

Term 3 has finally finished and 2BP headed off for two weeks of holidays this afternoon. It has been a very busy term for the class. Here are just a few of the things we have learnt in the past eleven weeks ....

• 55 new word wall words


• how to write a recount


• the different environments we have in Australia


• a recipe for spiritual health


• how to go camping in the Great Outdoors


• what are nouns, verbs, question marks and talking marks


• how to play Around the World using our number facts to 20


• read two class books - The BFG and Tashi


• played Live Mathletics with students from other countries

Have a wonderful holiday 2BP! See you all in Term 3.

Recount and Liturgy

This week 2BP have been busy working on publishing their recounts of The Great Outdoors Campout. We have been using a word document to publish our work and have chosen font styles and inserted photographs from the campout to make our work look extra special. The class have learnt how to write a recount and how to use a word document this term and it has been great using all we know to publish our story from The Great Outdoors Campout.

This afternoon 2BP held a class liturgy in our classroom. Lots of mums, dads and family friends came along to hear what we had to say about being spiritual. This term we have been learning about our spiritual selves and todays liturgy was a chance to share what we know with family and friends.

Bikes and Word Wall Words

In News Time this week Emily showed us her new bike. It was a lovely pink colour with gears and a very special seat. Emily told us all about how she is learning to ride her new bike and gave us a little demonstration on how well she does ride already.

In Reading Groups this week we listened to 'Wombat Stew' on the Listening Post. 2BP then got to practice the Word Wall Words for this week in a different way. They used playdough to make the words. Have a look at the photos and see if you can read the word they were trying to spell.

The Great Outdoors Campout

There is only one thing that 2BP can blog about this week and it would be our excursion to Bayside Park for the Great Outdoors Campout. We had five parent helpers who walked down with our class to the park where we had to put up our tents and collect our Great Outdoors Passport. For every activity we participated in we got a stamp in our Passport. Activities included nature craft, mapping, shapes in nature, reading camping books in a tent, seashore exploring, fishing and camp games like bocce, frisbee and snakes and ladders. Our lunch was a sausage sizzle and because we were camping we even got to toast marshmallows at the end of the day. 2BP had a fabulous excursion in the Great Outdoors!

Under 8's Day and Hexagons

Wednesday was a very big day for 2BP. The morning session was spent moving around and participating in different activities which was all a part of Under 8's day celebrations here at our school. 2BP made balancing birds, planted sunflower seeds, sat in a police car and visited animals from the RSPCA. Everyone took home a big bag full of things that they had collected during the morning. It was so much fun!

This week in Maths we explored hexagons and discovered that they are a very interesting 2D shape. They only need to have six sides and come in lots of different shapes. We had fun as a class making hexagons using geoboards and rubber bands.

Reading People and Dice Rolls

We have had another very busy week here in the 2BP classroom. This week in Religion we found out about some different groups that help others. We took a look at websites for World Vision, Australian Red Cross and Caritas. After reading information and watching video clips the class talked about what these groups did to help others around the world and here in Australia and perhaps how we can help when people are in trouble. From this activity the class then looked at photographs of people and in small groups talked about the feelings and spirit shown in the images. We then had a go at 'reading' each other from just the expression on our face and how we held our body.

In Maths this week we learnt a lot of different things but the most fun we had as a class was when we investigated dice rolls. We each had 10 minutes to roll a dice and keep tally marks of how many of each number we rolled. From there we sorted the data (made sense of the information we had collected) and placed the numbers onto a class table. The winner was 6 with 294 rolls. The least number of rolls with a score of 205 was 3. We then added up all the data and discovered that the class had rolled the dice 1504 times! Wow!

Nature and Length

On Wednesday 2BP looked at some pictures from nature and talked about how places like beaches, forests and mountains can help us feel connected to God. We had to select a picture of either a beach, sunset or forest and write in ten words or less how that picture made us feel. Here are two sentences....

I like the beach because it makes me feel calm.

The forest helps me to be close to God.

This week in Maths Groups we investigated length. 2BP used a chain of 20 paperclips to measure parts of their body like a hand, wrist to elbow and knee to ankle. We also had a chance to measure things like a book, desk and skipping rope using blocks or paddle pop sticks. This was so much fun counting and sharing our measurements.

Milly, Mothers Day and Quarters

This week in 2BP we had lots of interesting things happening in our classroom. First, Milly the dog visited with Hannah for News Time. She was very well behaved except when she tried to chew Mrs B's leg!

In Maths we learnt about finding Quarters. Did you know that 2 quarters is the same as 1 half? We had to make fairy bread and cut our piece of bread into quarters. There is more than one way to do this - WOW! The best part was eating our quarters.

Mothers Day is this Sunday and 2BP have been busy making Mothers Day presents and cards. Have a look at the beautiful fridge magnets we made in class. Thanks to all those parents who came to help with the painting and decorating.

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!