Sports Day and Graphs

On Friday we had our school Sports Day. We participated in fun activities like Poison Ball and Chase the Tail with everyone from Year 2. We also had running races where we had to run as fast as we could over either 60 metres or 80 metres. There was lots of cheering from the four school teams and the Red team won the day.

This week in Maths we have been learning how to collect data and display data using a graph. Yesterday we collected data about different coloured counters and today we used Fruit Loops. We have used both a Bar Graph and a Column Graph to display our data.

Values and Seasons

This week in Maths we have been busy learning about months and seasons. We have played lots of different games and activities to help us remember the months of the year and what months match to seasons. We have played YES and NO Month Quizz and Month and Seasons Memory. Do you know what season we are in right now?

In our Writing with Mrs Juler session today in the Library we continued to plan our story about our favourite day out with our family. We can't wait to start writing our Personal Narrative next week.

Today in our Unit Work we talked about Team Values. A value is something that is important and useful and includes things like kindness, excellence, forgiveness and trust. As a class we decided that it is important for our class team to have the values of kindness, honesty, courage, respect, trust, friendliness, love and care.

Number stories and St Patrick's Day

This week in Maths groups we worked on number stories. We read stories and then had to write addition or subtraction number sentences to match. Here's one for you to try - I found 8 shells on the beach on Monday. On Tuesday I found 5 more shells. How many shells did I find altogether?

Today we celebrated St Patrick's Day. Did you know that when Patrick was 16 he was captured by pirates and taken to Ireland. He looked after sheep in the mountains and he was a brave man. He showed love by helping people to learn about Jesus.

An orange world and a new place

This week we could start to use the new space outside our classroom. It has wonderful artificial grass and garden seating and also connects to our new Hall building. Munch and crunch time is now spent in this area.

Today we talked about why it is important for people to be different. We listened to Alana's story where her favourite colour was orange and then she dreamt that the whole world was orange! It wasn't very nice at all. 2V then had to draw a picture using only one colour and we talked about how they felt about their picture. Boring, all the same, not interesting and plain were some of the responses from the class. We decided that it is great for people to be different!

Mathletics and Fruit Loops

This week 2V have started using Mathletics as part of Maths Groups. We have been working on activities about Number, playing our games and competing against other students around the world in Live Mathletics.

Today in our Unit work - You, Me, Us - we had fun with our friends. We played a game called Sticky Popcorn and then we had to wear a blindfold and feed each other fruit loops! We each had 10 fruit loops to give to our partner without dropping any off the spoon.

Being Friendly

Today we talked about being friendly. Mrs B put our 'friendly' words into a word cloud - isn't it fantastic! We also made a Friendship Tree by decorating leaves and placing them on a tree trunk. We had to write "I am a good friend." on the leaf to remind us that we are all good friends here in 2V.