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OUR WATER WONDERLAND Our water theme is coming alive in our classroom with our displayed artwork and writing. Last Thursday we planned and wrote a persuasive piece of writing where we needed to share our opinion on the topic : Should All Children Learn How to Swim?  We published it with our snorkelling artwork! This Thursday we wrote a poem using Onomatopoeia.  Onomatopoeia are words that mimic the sound of the action they refer to.  The children used words that mimic the sound of water to create their poems.  For example, pitter patter, splash! They then published their poem with a collage in art.  Thank you to Mary Lee, Kat and Brendan for being amazing parent helpers!  The children love their creations. This week, the children learnt about the Writing Process.  We created a step by step chart, which provides them with a visual cue to follow during our writing sessions on Thursdays and Fridays.  They have enjoyed moving th...

Welcome to Week 4. Good Afternoon Mums and Dads Today we enjoyed our first Reading Rotations Lesson. The students had smiles from ear to ear and one comment "Can we do that every day?"  "That was so much fun!" We have 4 Rotational activities. The students undertake two on a Monday and two on a Tuesday. These comprise: 1:     Sight Word Spelling (involving slime, play dough, colourful stamps, paint and sand).  We utilise a multi sensory approach to sight word spelling learning within the Reading Rotations. Current research has identified that if a student sees the word, hears the word and puts the word into muscle memory ( by shaping the letters in play dough, tracing in goo or sand) they dramatically increase their acquisition and retention of the new spelling word. Two great ideas which you may wish to use at home to involve muscle memory are getting your child to trace their words onto a sheet of sandpaper or putting shaving cream on a small mirror...

We would like to say a huge thank you to all who attended our Year 2 Parent Presentation last Thursday afternoon.  A special thank you to Leanne Verhoeff and Caroline Moylan for volunteering their time and support as our 2H class reps.   If you were unable to attend the session, a copy of the booklet was sent home with your child on Friday afternoon.   The booklet contains the power point we presented.   If you have any questions after you read the booklet, please feel free to contact us. Despite the cooler change in weather, the class excitedly participated in their Swimming Lessons on Friday!   Lessons continue next week from Monday the 13 th to Thursday the 16 th .   Along with packing a towel, goggles and a spare pair of underwear in their swimming bag, please make sure that your child wears their joggers to school and brings thongs to wear to the pool. There are a couple of swimming items left after school on Friday.  These will be ...