Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Our new school

Hi everyone,
We are enjoying the sandpit and mushrooms very much! We have now got some SmartBoards in our new pods and are enjoying them a lot. We also have some comfy couches. We have four reading corners, one in each pod. We are having lots of fun in all the space. Sometimes we like to play hopscotch. The hopscotch is on our hard courts as well as four square and a place to play basketball. Our new music space is very small. Our music teacher, Merle has put some pictures up in there like The Veronicas. We have tambourines to play, and are getting a new sound system and a drum kit! We painted with marbles in our new art room. It is medium in size. It's an open space across from the 3/4's. It has lots of tables. On Monday morning we went into our new gym, we had assembly. Thanks to all the parents who came and looked at our new school. In our yard we have a lizard and a gecko made of concrete. We have new drinking taps. The grade 1/2's are missing our teacher Debbie very much. She is in England. We hope she is having a great time, and not missing us too much! We are looking forward to hearing about her trip when she gets back. We are looking forward to getting back to the playground once they finish building a caterpillar around the tanbark. We are waiting for grass to grow on our oval, we can't wait to play on there! This term we are Environmental Warriors! We are looking forward to learning all about the environment.
Goodbye from the 1/2's. Please leave a comment for us to read.

Friday, June 27, 2008

Our Last Week

Today we looked at our new school. Some of us helped carry things for the teachers. All the things are new and in our pod. In our pod there are special 'jelly bean' tables that we will do our guided reading in. We also have very cool yellow tables to work on. In each pod we have Smart Boards and we can't wait to play on them. We found our lockers, tubs and where our literacy and Home Groups will be. We were really lucky because we could explore the other pods as well. We also saw the Library in there we have special ball chairs. They are really comfortable. There were also rocking chairs that play music and books. On Wednesday the Preps, 1/2s and 3/4s went to ScienceWorks. We learnt lots of things about lightning. If there is lightning when we are in a plane, the lightning hits the wing and then travels across to the other wing. This means we are safe when we are in the plane. We won't be safe if we are under a tree and lightning strikes. We also learnt not to put metal things into a toaster. Everything at ScienceWorks was heaps of fun.

Have a fun and safe holiday. See you at our new campus!

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Celebration Day for the Grade 1/2s

The 1/2s are having a party this Friday. We hope that some parents can come to our celebration. The kids are bringing a plate of healthy food, like apples, oranges, carrots and watermelon. We have worked on a slide show for the afternoon. We have a good day ahead of us. The Music group are going to sing, "Yummy Food March". We want the parents to see all the work we have been doing. See all the parents on Friday.

Friday, May 9, 2008

Grade 1/2's Term 2 journey

This Term we are learning all about food. Healthy food, sometimes food and unhealthy food. We have been to the Queen Victoria Market. We bought some food that was on our list. We had $5 to spend at the market. Some people bought, toffee apples, hot jam donuts and biscuits. After the market we went to the beach. It was the Williamstown beach. We ate our lunch, saw some boats and played on the playground. We went on the shore and ate some hot chips.

We have walked up to the new campus with the Grade 3/4's and the Preps. Kerrie and Warren came with us. When we got their the we put our hands in some wet cement. It felt rocky, squishy, slimy, jelly like, gooey, sticky, flaky, cold and like playdoh. After we put our hands in the cement we had to wash our hands in cold water in a bucket. Then we walked back to school.

We have finished our old groups this Wednesday. Next Wednesday we start our new groups. We are doing Bike ed, origami, board games, games workshop, craft time and cooking.

This week we were filmed by some people. They filmed us working. Some people will be in the DVD.

By the 1/2's
Happy Mother's Day for Sunday

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Happy Easter from the 1/2's

This week we have done some Easter activities. We made Easter baskets, Easter bunny cards and traced a giant egg. The grade 1’s coloured and counted shapes on a bunny and did a dot to dot. The grade 2’s had to work out addition problems and colour each section a different colour.

This Thursday we have an Easter bonnet parade with the Preps and 3/4’s. We have an assembly on Thursday afternoon. Some of us will sing a special song that we have learnt in music. It is also an early finish.

We hope you have a happy Easter and get lots of eggs! See you in a couple of weeks!

Love the 1/2’s

Thursday, March 13, 2008

A visit from the CFA

Today we had a visit from the CFA, they taught us how to check the door at our house to see if there was a fire on the other side. This is a video of us crawling under a smoke blanket and practising checking for fire.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

From the Grade 2's

On Wednesday the 12th we were measuring a metre using the length of our arms. We walked around the school and found things that were longer and shorter than our metre. Here are some pictures!



Here is Jane's groups howing your their metres!





Here is Rachel's Maths book recording all her findings!




This is Rainbow's picture of her metre!

Monday, March 3, 2008

1/2 says...



On Thursday the 28th of February a lady called Raelene came with a dog named Milo. She taught us lots of things like:
1. When you see an angry dog you stand still, put your hands in a fist by your side, be as quiet as a mouse then you put your head down to the ground. You wait for the angry dog to go away and then you walk quietly and slowly backwards. When you arrive safely to your destination you need to tell a trusted adult about the angry dog.
2. When dogs are sleeping you don’t pat it.
3. If you see a sad dog you leave it alone.
4. When dogs are eating you leave it alone
5. When dogs have puppies you leave them alone
6. When you are hugging your dog don’t hug him close to your face
7. You don’t touch a dog that has been tied up outside of a shop.
8. You always say PLEASE before you pat a stranger’s dog.
9. You need to let dogs smell your hand before you pat them and you always pat the dog the same way the dog’s hair runs. You don’t want to ruin a dog’s hairstyle.
10. Don’t jump over a fence if your ball goes over it, there might be a angry dog on the other side
Some dogs are trained to be guard dogs. These dogs wear a special collar and there is a special sign that warns us that there is a dangerous dog around.
11. Some people got to pat Milo to practise the things we learnt
12. We sang a special song to teach us all these rules.

We had a great day

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

1/2 says...







Today we have been very busy. In Kylie's Literacy group we made some things with playdoh and wrote about it. In Lois's Literacy group we read 'Sandy Beach' and wrote about the characters. In Jane's Literacy group we read 'Grandpa and Thomas' and wrote about the beach. In Debbie's Literacy group we had to make up a story. The story started with 'I found a box and....' and we had to make up the rest. In Maths the Grade 1's made 2 digit numbers using ten frames. The Grade 2's in Maths wrote the numbers in words and played zero to 500. Lois beat the kids. Tomorrow we are starting groups! We are very excited.



From the 1/2 kids

Here are our Home Groups - photos taken by Marcus, Laura and Mitchell

Debbie's Home Group





In our Home Group we have been talking about friendship and our school values. We have also been reading lots of special books that we have brought from home. We have a special show and tell bag. Everyday one person brings something special from home to share with our home group. We also have a special friend called Oscar the Bear who is in our Home Group. He likes going home to our houses. He has a special journal that we write in and share at Home Group time.


Kylie's Home Group






Our Home Group enjoys playing different games like ‘Whispers’, ‘Winking’ and ‘Buzz’. We’ve already been lucky enough to celebrate some of our classmate’s birthdays this year and look forward to celebrating the rest as the year progresses.


Jane's Home Group




We have Home Group every morning and just before we head for home in the afternoon. During these times we love playing quick little games like, 'statues' and 'follow the leader'. Getting together is great fun because we can share our celebrations and discuss any important things as a group. We are looking forward to sending our Home Group mascot home early next term.


Lois's Home Group





During Home Group time we have been discussing ‘what makes a good friend.’ We have been talking about how to play together and how to include others in our games. Our Home Group Sharing Bag is being taken home by one child each night and they are bringing back a toy to share with us the next school day. Later on this term, our Home Group mascot will begin to visit our homes and enjoy completing activities with us.


Rob's Home Group


In our home group we discuss what we are looking forward to about the day to come. At the end of that day we reflect on new things that we learnt and enjoyed. We have a weather person each morning who reports the weather forecast for the day. We remind ourselves of the school values, the importance they have and to make sure they are being displayed at all times. We play a maths guessing game on the white board as often as we can to make our time together fun.

Monday, February 11, 2008

Our First Prep - Year 4 Assembly

Today we had our very first assembly. We all got together in the drama space in the Gym this morning, singing the National Athem that we have been practicing during Music. Our first Learner of the Weeks were presented along with 4 Citizen awards for students who display our School values - Personal Best, Honesty, Belonging & Respect. The students who received these awards are in the picture above. We are looking forward to more assemblies and the chance to share our celebrations with our families.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

A New Year @ The Lakes!



Welcome to the new school year for 2008! What an exciting few weeks it has already been. We have started the year with 80 students in year 1/2, and are lucky enough to be working in the newest building to be open on the school grounds. During these first few weeks we have seen our new students settle into their surroundings with the help of those who already know the ropes. The year 1/2's have been involved in many activites this past week. All encouarging working with others and making new friends. The teaching staff (Lois Stanley, Debbie Rainbow, Kylie Hewitt, Jane Black, Rob Zull & Melanie O'Reilly) have been itching to get to know all the students! They have been working hard with many small groups to try to learn more about each of them. This week we will be starting to work in our English and Mathematic groups, and sinking our teeth into our Integrated topic of 'Safety'.