THIS WEEK IS BOOK WEEK

This week is BOOK WEEK. It is a whole week set aside to celebrate Children's Books. At school wek have been doing some activities based on some of the short listed Children's Books. The Year 2's did Shumann the Shoeman.

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We also had a book week parade. Everyone in the school dressed up in their favourite book character. Everyone looked fantastic. Each class paraded in front of the other classes and a prize was given out to the best dressed person in each year level.

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Here are the characters we dressed up as.
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MICHELLE TAYLOR VISIT

Michelle Taylor came to our school on Wednesday 25 August. She writes all kinds of different poems. She gave us some great hints about how to write great poems. Michelle Taylor told us that she gets great ideas from her children, schools she visits and from the world around her. She writes all her ideas in a journal. She said that she has about 20-30 journals. She told us two important things about poems, they were short and you needed good describing words.

She wrote here favourite words on rocks and kept them in a collection and wrote titles on pieces of paper to help with her writer's block.

COUNT US IN

Count Us In is on again this year and we need to practise the song. Count Us In was an idea to help show how much fun music is and how important music is in school. We are busy practising the song that every school student will sing on the same day at the same time all around Australia. Year 2, to help you practise the song I have put the song into our document box. All you need to do is click on the song and it should play straight away.

MAKING ICE-CREAM

This term we have been investigating where our food comes from and how it gets from the farm to our tables. We looked at the production chain for milk. We watched a youtube video that showed us what happens to the milk after the cow has been milked.

OUR EKKA EXCURSION

On Thursday 5th August all the year 2 children went on an excursion to the Brisbane Exhibition (Ekka). The Ekka is a carnival that goes for 10 days every August. It is when people from the country bring their animals and produce to the city to be judged and to promote their region. There are lots of things to see and do at the Ekka. We went because we are learning about where our food comes from and how it gets to the supermarket.

We caught the train at 8.43am and got to the Ekka at about 9.45am. When we got there we sat down and had our morning tea. after morning tea we went off with our parent helper to see the cows, animal nursery, lambs being born, milking cows, the produce pavilion, and the government pavilion. After seeing all of these things we met up for lunch. After lunch we went off again with our parent helper to the showbag pavilion. We were allowed to buy one showbag up to the value of $15. After we bought our showbags we met outside the showbag pavilion before we caught the train back to school. We got back to school at 3.15pm. We were all very tired but we had a great day and saw lots of new and interesting things.

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SJV DAY AND WALKATHON

On Wednesday 4th August our school celebrated Saint John Vianney's Feast Day. John Vianney was a priest who lived in France over 150 years ago. He worked in the town of Ars. He talked to the people and taught them about God and Jesus. He was their Parish Priest for 40 years. After he died the Pope decided that John Vianney should be made a saint for the great work that he did in Ars. He became a saint on 4th August 1928. As part of our school's celebration we had a walk-a-thon in the morning then we went to Church for a school mass. After lunch we were put into groups that had children from prep to year 7 in them and we did 6 different activities. The activities were organised by the parents. We did Lob-a-choc, drawing on canvas, butterfly making, jumping castle and tug of war, cake decorating and matching the pictures of the teachers. It was a fantastic day and we thin our parents are great for organising it all for us.

SPORTS CARNIVAL

On Wednesday 21 July we had our school sports carnival. It was held at Villanova Park. It was the first time we used our new house colour names. Gold is Collins, Blue is Nagle and Red is Kennedy. We all took part in rotational activities. Our activities were Novelty Relays, High Jump, Ball games, Tabloid Games and 80m Sprints. We earnt points for our team when we completed in the different activities and for great cheering when we were sitting in our house colours. We all tried very hard but on the day Kennedy was the winner.