Caritas ks

TOday 2R did Caritas ks it is when we walk around the oval three. Times the preps to year ones had to walk two.Laps around the oval.We didnt just walk we did hoping we acted like.Chickens and at the end we joged to the end and my teacher took photos.We did caritasks because the people in Cambodia have to walk.That far for water.

by lachlan

Patterns

In class we learnt there are three different kinds of patterns.The three different patterns are the repeating patterns, growing patterns and circular patterns. A repeating pattern is when you repeat your design. A growing pattern is when you count your patterns one, two three or three, two ,one. A circular pattern is when you do rings around rings.There are elements that you can use and they are number, shape, colour and size.You can say alphabet instead of saying your pattern like green, red, green, red you could do abab.

By Joe and Isabella

Earthquakes

We are learning about Earthquakes and we have found out that there are four layers of the Earth . The names are the crust mantle outer core and the core . There are special plates that
make up the crust . and the plates are called Tectonic plates . We also found out that some
countries live on the crack of the plates so when the plates get stuck as they rub together make
earthquakes . By Ella

St Patrick's Day

On the 17th of March it was St Patrick's Day because he died on the 17 th March.

The Pope decided he would be a saint like all the other saints because he taught people about God.He knew that lots of people didn't know about God.When he was 16 he was kidnapped by pirates and taken to Ireland and was a slave but he trusted in God and escaped from them and went back to England. He became a priest and went back to Ireland.

By Ciaran

2R'S WILDSELVES

We made our own wildselves for our avatars. We saved them in our folders and then we put them in a Smilebox. It was fun and we think it is a great way to get our avatar. Can you guess who our last 4 wildselves are?

Another scrapbooking design by Smilebox

The Math Monster

We have been having lots of fun taking our new class member "The Math Monster" home each night to do a maths task with him and our family. Each day we will add a voicethread for each person who takes home the Math Monster. Last night James S took home the Math Monster and he taught the math monster how to count to 10 in Dutch. We recorded James on a voicethread counting to 10 in Dutch. We noticed that some of the numbers in Dutch sound the same as when we same them in English. Can you count to 10 in another language?

COLOURFUL CLOTHES DAY

Today we had colourful clothes day at school. Everyone came dressed in their most colourful clothes! There was a competition for each year level and prize given for the person who wore the most colourful clothes. We haven't found out who the winner was in year 2 yet. To be able to wear colourful clothes to school, we had to bring in a gold coin donation. Our $1 and $2 coins are gold so we had to bring in money that was equivalent to $1 or $2. The money we raised was going to be sent to Caritas to help with the Haiti Earthquake Appeal.

Mrs R asked us if we knew why we were having coloured clothes day and why we were bringing in a donation. We started talking about what happened in Haiti and just recently in Chile. Sophia asked what an earthquake was and some people shared some information that they knew about earthquakes. We were all very interested in finding out more and Mrs R suggested that we could do and inquiry about earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes. We made a wallwisher to record some of the things we already knew about earthquakes and this afternoon we wrote down on a chart some things that we wanted to know about them. Here is our wallwisher of what we already know.