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!