A Visit from Ted and the Rainbow Fish

This is our last week for Term 3 and we are all looking forward to the holidays. Jordan bought his dog, Ted to visit in News Time on Wednesday. Ted is a Highland Terrier and is four years old. He has just had a hair cut and he was very well behaved when he let the children pat him.

This week we finished our Friends Program where we have been learning about friendship skills. The class listened to the story about the Rainbow Fish and we made brightly decorated scales. We were only allowed to keep one scale and we had to share our other scales with classmates. There was such great sharing in our classroom!

Happy Holidays everyone!!!

Plant Experiment and Fathers Day

This week in 2BP we started a Science Experiment. Working in small groups we planted some Mung Bean seeds on a bed of cotton wool and placed them around the classroom. Each group chose one variable to change - either the amount of water, food or sunlight. All other variables were kept the same and this makes it a 'fair test'. We have predicted what we think each of the containers will look like in 14 days time and we start collecting data on Monday. We can't wait to see what happens!!!

2BP would like to wish all Dad's a very Happy Fathers Day on Sunday. We hope you like the card and bookmark we made in class.

Book Week and our Litter Tree

This week was Book Week and we celebrated with a Book Parade. The theme this year was to come as your favourite book character or a "jungle safari". 2BP had a great time dressing up and introducing our book characters to the school. We even had a visit from Tashi and Jack!

As part of our "Love My Planet" Unit work we built a litter tree. We counted all the rubbish that we had put in the bin during the day and for every piece we put one leave onto our Litter Tree. WOW!!! Look at all our leaves on our tree. Imagine if all that rubbish had been left on the ground or on the floor in our classroom - what a mess it would be.

Miss Lily and Streets Ahead

This week in 2BP we read a story about Miss Lily and her Fabulous Pink Feather Boa. The feather boa is the most wonderful thing the Last Potoroo (a small mammal found in different parts of Australia) has ever seen. The Last Potoroo takes a little of the feather boa as she feels for the first time in her life that she can do anything and everything when she is wearing it! At the end of the story the Last Potoroo say's SORRY and is forgiven by Miss Lily. After reading this story we decided that there are four steps in RECONCILING when you do something wrong. 1. Admit the wrong 2. Say "sorry" 3. Make up 4. Ask to be forgiven.

This week our class learnt some great road safety lessons from Thud who lives at RACQ. Thud told us that before we cross the road we should always STOP LOOK LISTEN and THINK!

Grafitti Wall

This week in 2BP we looked at the problem - What can we do about Climate Change? The class thought back to their GAS! excursion and what we had learnt to help us discover some of the answers. We then came up with our own ideas on what we could do about Climate Change and we put them all down on a big piece of butchers paper - our Grafitti Wall! Everyone had two or three great ideas that would help care for the planet.

And from Word Study today - What kind of clothing does a house wear? Address!!!