Learning Journery

Just a reminder that next Tuesday, the 20th of September, is Learning Journey afternoon. The classroom will be open from 2pm - 3.30pm for you to come in and see all your child's amazing work! I hope to see you all there to celebrate their achievements so far.

During this time, I won't be holding parent teacher discussions about student's progress, as it is a time to celebrate all your child's hard work with them. If you would like to discuss your child's progress we can arrange a meeting for a more suitable time.

Looking forward to seeing you all on Tuesday afternoon. 

Talk To Teach

I am struggling to find the words to use to explain how proud I am of the amazing Year 2s of Room 16 for their outstanding Talk to Teach presentations. I have learnt how to do so many different things such as bake a cake, make fruit cars, make chocolate crackles and even how to do origami.

You all spoke so clearly, gave precise instructions and demonstrations, made eye contact and used brilliant volume. The preparation and effort you put into these presentations were outstanding! Thank you for all your hard work and enthusiasm. Thank you to the amazing parents of our class for assisting with these presentations. It was such an incredible effort by everyone.

Talk to teach from carisheppener

Geography Homework

Today we will be bringing home a map of Australia. We need to map out our connections to places that are all over Australia, as part of our Geography unit. Unfortunately Mrs S can't really help us with this, as she doesn't know all the details about where we have been on holidays and where our extended family may live, so we would really appreciate you taking the time to help us! Please do this activity neatly and use a pencil.

Below is an example to help you.

Next week we will be bringing home the same activity, but we will be looking at our connections all over the world! We are so excited to see where people in our class have been and where our families come from.

Winners!

Congratulations to the amazing, terrific and hard working students of Room 16 for winning the Music Award and Uniform Award at today's assembly! I am so proud of you all and these awards are very well deserved!

A huge congratulations to Ansh, Diya and Steve for receiving Merit Certificates too! It is great to see so many super stars in our class.

Money in Maths

This term our class is focusing on Money. To start off our money unit we discussed why money is important and why we need to learn how to count and exchange money. We all agreed it is important to know how to use money so we can buy endless amounts of toys! We have been learning how to convert dollars to cents and cents to dollars. We have also learnt how to make various amounts of money. By the end of the term we will also know how to work out change from $1. A great way you can help us to practise our money skills at home is by counting how much pocket money we have or counting how much money you might have. 

Below are some photos of us using play money to make different amounts of money. We had so much fun!

Money work from carisheppener

Faction Carnival

Just a reminder that the Faction Carnival will be held this Friday. Make sure you have your faction shirt on, hats on your head, good sportsmanship and cheering voices ready to go! Go orange!

A huge congratulations to the super sports star of Room 16, who competed in the cross country event. You all did an amazing job and we are so proud of you for running that far and trying your hardest!

Book Week

Last week was book week and our class studied the book, Mr Huff by Anna Walker. We absolutely love this book! It is about a little boy who is having a really bad day. Mr Huff is following him around and making everything seem very difficult.  The little boy tries everything to get rid of Mr Huff, but things just get worse and worse, and Mr Huff gets bigger and bigger. Then they both stop trying so hard and things become better.

We created our own Mr Huffs and wrote things that make us have a bad day. After we finished writing these things we then thought of solutions to these problems that get us down. We spoke about how things often seem worse than they really are and that is okay and normal. Next time we have a Mr Huff following us around we can think of solutions to get rid of him.

Come in and see our Mr Huffs hanging up in the classroom.