CERES Excursion Grade 2/3M on PhotoPeach

On Tuesday we started ‘Solving the jigsaw’. We also went for a walk around the street of Malmsbury. On the walk we went in to a pine tree plantation. In the plantation we saw rubbish and burnt furniture. We also saw and touched lots of other things like leaves, wattle, mushroom, ducks, water and trees. We also stopped and listened during our walk, we heard lots of different sounds such as ducks quacking, a train and birds chirping.

We have been reading lots of information reports and been writing lots of descriptions of different animals. Joshua bought in his puppy Benny and we got to describe him. We have also been looking  at an adjective and how we use them in our writing.

In maths we learnt the months of the year and how to read a timetable and played some maths games.

It was Lucy’s birthday on Wednesday (Happy Birthday Lucy!) and we have Art today.

This week was fun!!!

By Harry and Josh

Reminder: We have a whole school excursion on Monday to CERES in Melbourne

This term during our Literacy session students will be reading and writing lots of Information Reports, focusing on Animals. We will be looking at the different features of the text and expanding our writing and descriptions to include verbs, adjectives and conjunctions. Students will also continue to work on their spelling, handwriting, grammar and punctuation skills.

In Maths we will:

• continue to look at days of the week and months of the year, along with reading and interpreting calendars
• complete more complex addition and subtraction problems, and correct these problems using a calculator
• introduce perimeter and area of shapes
• continue to work on fractions
• focus on the link between division and multiplication, along with developing automatic recall of basic multiplication
• discuss chance, if events are likely, unlikely, impossible or certain

Our Inquiry unit this term is ‘If we don’t look after here, what could happen there?’. As part of this unit students will be looking at the school, home and town (Malmsbury) environments and how our action here can affect many other places. Students have already begun looking at the school environment and will be walking down the street shortly to see what we can find. There will also be a whole school excursion to CERES in Melbourne as part of this unit.

Specialist Timetable:

• Tuesday – Library
• Wednesday – Multi-aged Activities
• Thursday – French and Performing Arts
• Friday – Art and BluEarth

Reminders:

• students’ red bags need to be returned to school every day
• all students should be reading every night and be recording their reading in their logs or R.E.A.D books for me to check each day/week (or completing an equivalent activity, e.g. Times Table practice)
• homework sheets will be given out on a Monday and need to be returned to school completed by 9:10 Friday morning (or you child may be required to complete the homework sheet during their lunch time)

Important Dates:

• Monday 1st August– Whole School Excursion to CERES in Melbourne
• Monday 15^th August – Curriculum Day (Student Free)

1/2 Camp

On Thursday the 5^th of May the 1/2s and Tiana went on Bendigo Urban Camp. We had all our bags, jumped on the bus and drove off.

The first thing I want to write about is Bendigo pottery there was lots of clay. They make vases out of clay and pots. There was a monkey but we didn’t find it. We watched a movie that helped us find out what Des Nan’Caro did. Des Nan’Caro was a head fire worker. He cleared coal from the kiln. The movie was in a giant kiln that had no fire and it was projected. If there was a fire it would explode.

Then, we went to Rosalind Park we saw fling foxes. We had lunch on the grass near Bendigo Creek. It smelt a bit funny because there was a big hole somewhere in the park. After lunch we rolled over each other. We went to the best playground ever.

Finally, we went to the discovery centre there’s a giant ant watching you. There’s a lot of electrical things. Over one thousand volts. For dinner we had pizza. There was a sleeping room. You could sleep in it. There was a lot of exhibits it was really fun. There was a vertical slide it was awesome. You get down it in a second. The planetarium was good it taught us about planets and stars. We watched Garfield and Robots they were both funny!!

Camp was awesome!!!!!!!! 

By Dominic

These are some of Grade 2/3′s comics, hope you all enjoy them…

# One By Dom and Percy

# Two By Jeremy

# Three By Mietta and Zoe

# Four By Sol

# Five By Zarli and Shay

Grade 2/3 had a very busy start to this term with both the Grade 1/2 camp to Bendigo and the Grade 3/4 camp to Sovereign Hill.

This term we have been reading lots of informative/information texts about the Goldfields and other cultures. We have also been learning about Explanations and how to write them. Students have also been experimenting on ToonDoo (http://www.toondoo.com/) to make their own comics.

In maths we have:

• looked at the days of the week and months of the year
• written our own word problems – related to camp
• been reading and making our own maps
• been following and giving directions
• looked at how much we know about the one number
• had a lot of fun competing in number races, Pac man and other maths games
• made patterns and experimented with tessellations

Our inquiry unit this term is ‘Australia: who we are, where we come from’. As part of this unit students have been looking into where it is their families have come from . Students asked their families questions, wrote a draft and are currently publishing their final copies. We have also done some art works of houses and huts from the Goldfields using natural objects such as sticks, sand, rocks, etc.

Hello World!!!

Guess what we’re going on camp, we’re going on camp!!! YAH

The Grade 2 students are very excited about their sleep over at the Bendigo Discovery Centre. Where we also get to go to Bendigo Pottery and have clay play, visit the art gallery and have lots of time to experiment with all the different exhibits and activities. On Friday we also get to visit the Chinese museum and eat some Chinese food for tea. We will post some photos and student comments when we get back from camp.

The Grade 3 students are also very excited for the week after they are all going to Sovereign Hill for three days and two nights. We have watched a video about some of the things we are going to do on camp; we are all looking forward to getting Gold Fever and looking for some gold. We are also very excited to see the sound and light show ‘Blood on the Southern Cross’.

Our Grade 3’s will also be completing their NAPLAN (National Assessment Program – Literacy And Numeracy) assessments in week 3 (Thursday 12^th and Friday the 13^th).

So a very fun and busy couple of weeks ahead for Grade 2/3M

Thank you Pat for the stick insects, we really love them. The female’s mouths look like scissors when they are eating. They eat gum leaves.

By Aharon and Zoe