Bee Bots

This week in 2S we are learning about Location. To help us with this we have been reading map coordinates and programming Bee Bots.

Paper Planes

2S have been making and flying paper planes as part of a maths investigation - Up, Up and Away! Students could make either a Glider, Dart or a design of their own. We had three test flights in the Nano Nagle Centre to see how far the paper planes could fly and then we reviewed our findings. A Glider flew the furthest at around 13 metres with a small change to its wing design. This small change allowed more air to funnel over the top of the plane making it more aerodynamic.

Maths Number Sense

This is how 2S do number practice. Wow - so much information about the number 822!

Farmer Fred's Cow

This week in 2S we have been reading Farmer Fred's Cow. On Farmer Fred's farm there were four old animals - Cow, Horse, Pig and Donkey. They had never been anywhere, never seen anything - just the farm, just its fields. As a fun activity we made some farm animals from plasticine.

Today was Ice-cream Day here at SJV. The Year 6 class organised the day to raise money for their Graduation celebrations. It was great fun eating ice-cream during our Maths Groups!

Sticks and Stones Show

Today Year 2's watched a very exciting story. In the play we met two young men - Joe and Toby. During the show Toby finds out what makes him angry and how he can learn to stop picking on other people. The messages we heard from Joe and Toby were....

DON’T be a BULLY…STOP. Think, breathe, walk away.

DON’T be a TARGET…SPEAK UP. Stand tall. Tell someone.

BE A POSITIVE BYSTANDER!

Book Week 2016

2S looked fabulous in their Book Week costumes! Can you guess what book character they have each dressed up as?

2S Assembly

This week 2S presented an Assembly to the school about meditative prayer. It was a wonderful and quiet way to finish our school day.

Horrible Harriet Cooking

This week we are reading the book Horrible Harriet as part of our Word Study lessons. In the book Horrible Harriet cooked a wonderful lunch for her friend, Mr Chicken. We didn't do any cooking but we did decorate biscuits and then we ate them of course!

Pirates everywhere!

This week 2S are focusing on the sound P as in pig and slipper. Today we read a great story about Pirate Pete and his parrot. We all made pirate hats and pulled our best pirate faces!

Athletics Carnival

Today Prep to Year 2 participated in an Athletics Carnival here at school. We ran 60 metres, threw a turbo javelin, jumped in jumping sacks, played ballgames and ran over hurdles. Everyone was a winner!

SJV Walkathon

This week students from SJV are participating in a walkathon. The walkathon has been organised by the P & F and funds raised will support projects here at school. Year 2 will be walking from school to Lota Park along the Esplanade waterfront. Happy walking!

Manly War Memorial Excursion

Year 2 visited the Manly War Memorial at Richard Russell Park today. It was a wonderful place to remember the men and women who have served in times of war. Miss Frizzle, from Magic Walking Bus Tours, told us interesting facts about the site and shared ANZAC biscuits with us.

Taking Action

Today the Year 6 students from the Mini Vinnies team spoke to Year 2 classes about what it could look like to act like Jesus in our school community. We heard about giving to others who need our help. We can do this when we have the Rosies Appeal (coming in Term 3) where we bring in food items to give to homeless people.

Fact Families

This week in Maths we have been exploring Fact Families. Did you know that we can write two addition and two subtraction number sentences using just three numbers? 2S were superstars at completing Fact Families!

Field of Poppies

 

This week in Art we have finished our Field of Poppies. Our artwork has been inspired by Claude Monet's impressionist painting of a field of red poppies in France. Our artwork has bold colour but with little detail and the image comes to life when you step away and view the painting from a distance.

Clay the snail can race a snake

 This week in 2S we read a great book about a snail and a whale who travelled the world together. There were lots of words in the book that had our sound this week. Can you guess what the sound was?

Simpson and his donkey

 Today in History we read a story about a brave soldier named John Simpson. John served his country during World War 1 in Gallipoli. He used a donkey named Duffy to help him transport injured soldiers from the battlefield to the hospital on the beach. He was a hero.

Reflectional Symmetry

This week in Maths we have been learning about flipping objects. We made some amazing patterns showing reflectional symmetry by using our rulers and some pattern blocks. WOW!

ANZAC Day

Today at school we participated in a liturgy to commemorate ANZAC Day. It was a time to sit still and remember all the people who have served in times of conflict. Lest we forget.

Cross Country

Today at SJV we had our Cross Country Carnival. Everybody had such a great time running the course and Kennedy was the winning house for the carnival.

Dance Cart Concert

Today we performed at the SJV Dance Cart concert in front of family and friends. We looked fabulous and danced wonderfully!

75th Anniversary Celebrations

Today SJV celebrated its 75th Anniversary and the blessing and official opening of the Philomena Building. We participated in a wonderful mass with the school community followed by a blessing of a plaque to go on our new building by Archbishop Coleridge.

Fish and Chip Friday

Today was Fish and Chip Friday at SJV. Everyone enjoyed a lunch of beautiful fish and chips and all the money we raised went to Project Compassion.

St Philomena's School

St Philomena's School opened in 1941 and had 82 students. The Presentation Sisters came from Longreach to teach here. The school started to move to new buildings across the road in 1947 and in 1961 changed its name to St John Vianney's School. So much history SJV!

The Faraway Tree

2S have been reading The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton as part of our Literacy Groups.  This is a story of Joe, Beth and Frannie who move right next door to an Enchanted Wood and discover the Faraway Tree with its many different lands. Mrs Brown loves reading this story with our class reading hat on her head!

Terrific Talent

This week in 2S our first group of students shared their 'Terrific Talent'. We saw great football skills, bike riding, razor scooter tricks, jazz dancing and wonderful drawing. 2S really do have terrific talent!

Dance Cart

This week we started our Dance Cart lessons. We can't wait to move our bodies to great music and to perform a dance at the Dance Cart concert at the end of the term.

2S 2016

Here we are! The 2016 2S class. We have had a busy first week of school getting our books organised, exploring our new classroom and getting to know lots of new friends.