Posted on November 29th, 2009 by jsblog
Well 2JS, it’s nearly the end of the year and you’re nearly all grade threes now. I hope we have fun for the rest of the year and I hope you don’t all forget me next year. Come back and visit me. Have fun on the holidays.
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Posted on November 18th, 2009 by jsblog
Today we had a visit from Karina from Brimbank Council. She told us all about rubbish, recycling and composting. Next week we will have an excursion to CERES to learn about helping our environment. We are all trying to reduce our rubbish by bringing food in natural packaging (like fruit) or in containers instead of [...]
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Posted on September 11th, 2009 by jsblog
As part of our safety topic we have been talking about police. We have made police hats, freddy’s and in the last week of term 3 we are making a Wanted Poster from the mugshots we took. I know the best part of the topic so far was our very special visitor Dicko, from Keilor [...]
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Posted on September 2nd, 2009 by jsblog
On Wednesday afternoon our grade read independently on the school oval.
First we chose our books and got some picnic rugs. We walked out to the oval and set out the rugs. It was very windy. Some of our parents came. Then we started to read our books. After that we swapped some of our books. Finally we [...]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by jsblog
This is our new topic for term 3. We will do lots of activities about keeping ourselves safe. This covers things like home safety, school safety, road and bike safety. One of our first activities was children making a ‘LITTLE BOOK OF EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS’. It is important for children to know their full name, [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2009 by jsblog
Here’s my list of great places to visit this holidays:
Zoo
Aquarium
Museum
Movies
Imax
Scienceworks (this one’s great and pretty cheap)
Horseshoe Bend Farm (take a picnic)
Library (FREE FUN!)
Eureka Tower observation deck
Tram ride into the city
Barbie exhibition at Federation Square
Bunnings holiday activities
Great things to do:
Kick a footy
Ride a bike
Play a boardgame/card game
Read a book
If you have a friend with a computer, [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2009 by jsblog
Well 2JS it is the end of term 2. You are half way through grade 2! I hope we like the room when it is finished being painted. I bet Nathan’s dad did a great job. I will go in on the holidays and set up the tables again for us. Have a great holiday. Relax and [...]
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Posted on June 19th, 2009 by jsblog
Today we all got to make a toy out of wood. I am so proud of all the children in 2JS who safely used tools. Yes, they actually used sandpaper, woodwork benches and a SAW! Some of you might like to decorate your boats (with paint or textas) and show them to me next week. [...]
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Posted on June 16th, 2009 by jsblog
Yay. All the photos of the children’s toy projects are up on the TOYS page for you to look at!
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Posted on June 6th, 2009 by jsblog
What are your favourite books? Is there anything you really love in our classroom library? Leave a comment.
Dr Seuss http://www.seussville.com/
Mr Men http://www.mrmen.com/au/
Mem Fox http://www.memfox.net/welcome.html
Paul Jennings – Rascal the dragon http://www.pauljennings.com.au/
Roald Dahl – The Twits, George’s Marvellous Medicine http://www.roalddahl.com/
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