End of Year!

Term 4 Review...

Plenty of exciting things have been happening this very busy term! We have had lots of excitement these past weeks with taking part in Humphrey's Dancing and starting swimming lessons, as a part of our Physical Education programs. Room 14 have been rehearsing their special dance and are getting very excited to show this off at the End of Year Presentation Night! 

A huge thank you to all of the parents who were able to attend our 'Dance Party' last Thursday afternoon. The students loved having parents experience what they have learned so far through their dance classes. It was absolutely fantastic to see parents coming up and having a dance with the children! I'm sure you'll enjoy the video and photographs of the dancing session below... 

                                                                                

What we have been learning this term...

Room 14 planned, designed and created their very own desk tidy as a part of their Technology and Enterprise learning this term. We were very impressed with the effort put into bringing in recycled boxes and materials! Thank you to parents for assisting the children with this. Ms Peake and I were extremely proud of how well these desk tidy's were designed and created, that we decided that Room 14 could use them at school. They have been very handy and are a true demonstration of how hard each child worked to create them. Well done, everyone! 

As a part of our persuasive writing, Room 14 had to try and convince Santa that they would be the best new Elf helper in Santa's workshop. Everyone thought of different ideas and reasons to try and convince Santa, as well as a range of high-modality persuasive words! We included similes, different punctuation and openers to make our writing even better. 

Once we completed our writing, two students were selected, who produced excellent writing, to be my classroom helpers. These excellent writers included: a range of persuasive vocabulary, different connectives, openers that would draw in a reader and different punctuation to make sense of their writing. 

Congratulations to Tejas and Joanna who have been my 'Elf Helpers' this week! Well done on your hard work and efforts to further improve your writing!

Reminders and Important Dates:

Currently, there are a few notes that have been sent home in regards to the school's Presentation Night. These notes include an information sheet on the night, permission slip for rehearsals, ticket allocation note and permission slip for Presentation Night. Please ensure these are returned to class ASAP. Thank you!

• Swimming lessons have commenced. Please ensure children bring their swimming gear with them to school. 
• Presentation Night rehearsals - Monday 12th December
• Presentation Night - Thursday 15th December
• Please make sure all home reading books and library books are returned to school ASAP.
• Please return Test Books ASAP as we are in the process of preparing these for the end of the year.

End of Year Two!

Room 14 students are super excited that school holidays are fast approaching! We are so proud of all of our students and what they have achieved this year. It has been a very busy year and they have each worked extremely hard to put in 120% into all class and school activities. Although we are super happy for everyone to celebrate their hard work over the holidays, we are also very sad that the year is coming to an end and our lovely Year Two class will be heading into Year Three next year! It has been an absolute pleasure teaching each and every one of our students in 2016.
Finally, a big thank you to all of our Room 14 parents for their hard work and commitment to their child's learning. We are lucky to have amazing and helpful parents in our class and truly appreciate all of your efforts in taking part in your child's learning each day.

Room 14, we wish you the best of luck next year in Year Three! Remember to ALWAYS try your very best and put in 120% effort throughout all of your learning. 

Enjoy your well-deserved holidays! 

What's New?

It sure has been a busy one so far this term! We are so pleased with how hard everyone is working in class. Room 14 have had a very "Sciency" few weeks, with learning all about Physical Sciences in the classroom AND out of the classroom on our exciting excursion to Scitech! We have also had our Super Scientist presentations and assembly last week. During class, we have been learning Literacy concepts such as suffixes, prefixes and similes. We would love to start seeing these new concepts used throughout everyone's writing soon! During Maths, Room 14 have been learning all about telling time the quarter hour, division and practising our 3 times tables! We are super impressed with how quickly everyone is picking up this new learning- well done, Room 14! With plenty of more exciting learning coming ahead, we have also been involved in our dancing lessons and have swimming lessons coming up too! I'm sure the rest of the year is going to fly by! 

Super Scientist Presentations

Everyone did such a great job at presenting their Science experiments and talks last week. Ms Peake and I were very happy with how much effort was put into these presentations. Thank you parents and siblings at home who might have helped with any preparation! It was a fabulous effort by all. 

Learning all about Physical Sciences
This term's Science focus was based on different types of forces. In this lesson we are learning all about gravity and why gravity is needed on Earth. Here we are using a ball of playdough to test what happens when we use different forces with it such as, pushing and pulling. 

Scitech Excursion!
Last week on Wednesday, all of the Year 2 classes headed off to Scitech! This was a VERY exciting day for everyone. We watched a funny show present by one of the Scitech workers that was all about different chemical reactions. It was very funny and entertaining. Then, we had some free time to explore all of the awesome stations that were based on using different forces. We learnt more about pushing and pulling forces, magnetic forces, air pressure and water pressure. After such an exciting day, we headed back to school and discussed what we had learnt on our big excursion. It turned out to be a great day which ran smoothly. A HUGE thank you to our parent helpers who assisted with supervising our student groups on the day, Somy, Jacinta and Kristie. You were all a fantastic help!

 

           

 

           

 


Dancing Lessons
Room 14 and 16 have been taking part in dance lessons these past few weeks. They have been learning many dances already and are already practising their big dance for the end of year concert! It is so great to see everyone taking part and having a go!

Art

The following students were selected to have their artwork displayed at the Perth Royal Show by Ms Randall. Congratulations!

Reminders:

Swimming notes have now been sent home. Please fill out the necessary details and return to school with money attached.

Family Fun Night will be a great night hosted by the school's P&C. We encourage students to bring in some donations for our Lucky Dip Prize at our stall. These can include small things such as, stationery (pencils, erasers), chocolate, lollies etc. If unsure, please see myself or Ms Peake & thank you for donating!

Thank you!
Miss Gerace :)