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Upcoming events: Wednesday 13th - Jumps event at approx 2.00pm Thursday 14th - Athletics carnival Please wear your faction shirts on Wednesday and Thursday and sports uniform on Friday this week. Please see today's SEQTA email  and last week's newsletter for details about times for events for the Athletics carnival and recess/lunch breaks. Shoebox donations: Thank you so much for all of the donations that came in last week for Operation Christmas Child.  This project has been running in the school for well over a decade and it is another way we can show compassion and care for others.  If there are any more donations or $2.50 postage coins, please bring them in ASAP. Learning:  Geography/Science: We continue to be busy bees in 2H, learning about our local native animals.  We have begun our inquiry cycle and collating current knowledge and wonder questions.  This week we will begin researching information to create a report and informational nar...

Upcoming Events: Wednesday 6th  - Jumps event: 2H 2.10-3.00pm wear sports uniform Friday 8th- Operation Christmas Child shoebox donation due date please Wednesday 13th- Throws event: 2H 2.10pm wear sports uniform Thursday 14th - Athletics carnival Jumps Our class' time for jumps has been scheduled for last hour on Wednesday afternoon.  Spectators and helpers are welcome.  Year 2-6 students wear sports uniform on this day in addition to our Thursday and Friday sport days this week. Little Mermaid  All of the students were invited to see the wonderful production this afternoon and it was absolutely fantastic! So many wonderful songs and the performance was amazing.  If you haven't got tickets, they are still available for Wednesday, Thursday and some limited for Friday. I'm sure the children would love to see the production again under the lights.  Mathematics We are continuing to focus on money this week.  It would be appreciated if you...

Upcoming Events   Friday 1st September: 7.30am Father's Day breakfast, 9.00am 2H Prayer Assembly Week 9 and 10 Jumps and throws events (timetable will be shared next week when it is finalised) Friday 8th September: Operation Shoebox  items due Operation Christmas Child   Thank you so much to those who have already organised gifts and money donations for the Christmas Shoeboxes.  We have set up a collection basket next to the communication book.  Please remember that your donation requires $2.50 per child for postage of these boxes.  A note went home last week regarding what type of item your child has chosen to donate. Please feel free to contact us if you have any further queries. These gifts are sure to bring happiness to those children in need.  Thank you in advance for your generosity.  Parent Helpers Thank you to those parent helpers who have volunteered some of their time to help with mathematics lessons.  There are stil...

Week 6 Upcoming events: Thursday 24 th August: SCHOOL PHOTOS – Please wear winter dress uniform (no tights) and bring along white sports shoes and socks to change into (full sports wear is not required for our class).  Next Friday 1 st September: 2H PRAYER ASSEMBLY Mathematics: Last week we were focusing on subtraction and learning how to organise sums into vertical arrangement (columns of tens and ones).  We have also been using number grids and number lines to solve subtraction sums.  Today some of us even learnt how to regroup, borrowing tens and bringing them into the ones/units column when there wasn’t enough.  Some fun acting out pizza shop scenarios was had! We will be learning about money next week, combining our knowledge about skip counting, addition and subtraction operations to make different amounts and solve money problems.  English: We have been focusing on our comprehension of texts, answering different types of questions and ...

The 2H team have approached Term 3 learning with a bang! Our focus topics have been: Mathematics : introducing multiplication and division symbols, reading and writing sums and solving worded problems.  We have loved applying our knowledge to hands-on tasks and solving tricky open-ended problems in partners that had multiple answers.  We can now use a think board to show the ways a number problem can be represented and solved. Reading:  Our reading group rotations each morning has continued this term.  This provides us time for us to read, read and read in small groups and on our own. We know that reading exercises and strengthens our reading brain 'muscle'.  Reading more = better readers!  We have continued to learn about METACOGNITION which means thinking about our thinking as we read.  We need to listen to the two voices in our head when we read - one says the words and the other does the thinking such as predicting, noticing things, wonderi...

Week 10 What a last week of Term 2! Grandparents Day, Dinosaur Day and lots of mathematics learning about length.  Thank you so much to the wonderful parent helpers - we couldn't have such great learning opportunities and fun without your help.   We hope you all had a wonderful winter holiday break and some precious family time.    Term 3 Homework The use of a homework folder really helped students to develop their organisation and taking responsibility in their learning last term. Thank you parents for helping to develop these routines for homework and ensuring their child is packing them in their bags each night/morning last term. A reminder for what should be kept in the homework folders and brought to school every day: Home reading book (if reading a school book, some students are reading books from the library or their own - these students are welcome to bring in their books from home if they would like) Red reading log Think Mentals...

Upcoming events: Cross country - wear faction shirt tomorrow please Grandparents Day - Tuesday 27th June 9.00-11.00am Dinosaur Day - Wednesday 28th June - please send in permission slips/parent helpers Teamwork  We have been working on our teamwork skills in our classroom.  Working together, sharing ideas and collaboratively completing tasks are helping us to become better learners in 2H. Length and Measurement in Maths This week we have begun to focus on a new topic in Mathematics - length! We will be exploring how the length of objects can be measured using uniform units.  We will be developing our measurement skills and understanding of centimetres and metres. Dinosaur Day   2M and 2H are looking forward to the special Dinosaur Dress Up Day. next week on Wednesday.  Please send in permission slips for the movie ASAP.  We are also hoping for a few more parent volunteers for the morning from 9-11 to help assist with some fun activities....