Big Feet and Orange Day

It has been so busy in 2V this week. We have been busy working on a maths investigation about how big Year 2 feet are. We used blocks to measure the area of a tracing of our right foot and then we collected the data into a graph to discover some amazing things. Matthew had the biggest foot, Cooper had the smallest foot and the difference between them was 20 blocks. Most children had a foot area of 28 blocks and Mrs B's foot measured 41 blocks.

Yesterday 2V presented their written persuasions on Moreton Bay to their Year 4 buddies. They did a wonderful job persuading their buddies to do the right thing and look after Moreton Bay.

Wednesday was Orange Day where we wore orange clothes to school and made a gold coin donation to help save the endangered orangutans.

Have a great winter holiday 2V!

News Time and Bee Bots

On Wednesday 2V had some great items for News Time. Mathew had a wonderful helicopter that he had made and Ruby bought in a bear that she found on her recent holiday to Los Angeles.

Today in Maths groups we practised our directions - left, right, forward and backwards - using Bee Bots. These are small, robot bees who can be programmed to move in any direction. We even set up a course for the Bots to move along.

Looking after our Marine Environment

2V watched this persuasive advertisement yesterday. The ad is trying to persuade people to make better choices about products used in the home.

Time and Persuasion

This week in 2V we have spent all week in maths learning about telling the time - o'clock, half past,quarter to and quarter past. We used clocks and played games to help us to remember how to tell the time in these different ways.

Yesterday 2V had to persuade Mrs B to give the class more free time. Everyone wrote a very good persuasion with great openings, strong arguments and fabulous conclusions about why they should have more free time. Mrs B wrote her own persuasion about why 2V already have too much free time. After listening to eveyone's persuasion it was decided that 2V would have free time on Friday - 2V were very persuasive!

St Helena Island - Digging up the Past!

2V visited St Helena Island yesterday to dig up the past and to help the Professor and the Doctor to save the island from being made into a holiday resort! We found some amazing old objects including a cannon ball, bottle, axe head and a turtle shell. We surveyed the island and visited the Lime Kiln, the Children's Cemetery, the Prisoner's Cemetery and the old Well. The boat trip over and back was smooth and we learnt even more about Moreton Bay from Mr T.

St Helena Island excursion