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

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

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.

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!

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

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.