Ms Courtney's Class

Students used their knowledge of the elements of music from their last unit and applied them to movement.  They chose a song and style of dance that they liked and tried to show a variety of movements that fit the music.

We went to Moo Moo Farms to learn how cows get milked. There was a tour guide named Mr Kenneth. - Jasmene  First, we went on the bus and the bus driver drove the bus to Moo Moo Farms. When we arrived there we had to listen to the man and we were not allowed to touch anything. - Vathanak Next, Mr Kenny told us things about the farm. Then he led us into the farm. - Josiah The guide took us to see the female cows that were eating corn, grains and wheat. After that we went to the baby cows, they were eating grains. There was nine of them eight of the baby cows were male and one of them was a girl. - Tashi After we went to see how they milk the dairy cows. - Eliza There were these tubes they put on the cows teats and the tubes suck the milk. Mr Kenny said that when the cow have their calf they could produce milk. he even told us that cows love grains. - Nicole The milk is from the mum because the mum has mil for her baby. The calves love milk like babies ...

Today we had Tashi's Mum come and speak to us about rice. We learnt about the importance of rice in our region and different ways people can use rice. Here are some of the comments the students made about what they learnt: I learnt about the Dragon Boat festival I learnt that in Indonesia they use a yellow rice dish called Nasi Kuning Tumpeng instead of birthday cakes.  There are stories and folk stories about rice from China and Japan For Chinese New Year and winter solstice people make glutinous rice balls Rice is sticky and you can make glue using cooked rice and water There are different types of rice all around the world Japans keeps the best rice grown in Japan for themselves There is long and short grain rice Rice is eaten at festivals and celebrations Rice is useful Rice is a medicine. When people are sick rice water can help you get better.  People wash their face with rice water and water the plants.  Does your family use rice or another st...

Student explored the elements of music, such as tempo, pitch, dynamics and duration, to create a piece of music that would allow the audience to have an idea, feeling or story.  They started to work on this individually and later some students chose to work collaboratively.  Here is their final composition.

G2 Art-Unit 2- Nature and Architecture We observed shapes in architecture and shapes in nature.  We investigated the functions (purposes) of nature and architecture.  We used our imaginations and feedback from friends or family to draw and build architecture inspired by nature.  Here is my artwork: G2 Art- Unit 3- Finding and Making Meaning in Abstract Art We found shapes, colors and lines in abstract artworks.  We discussed our experiences and emotions connected to the colors, lines and shapes.  We used this to guess the meaning of abstract artworks.  We sorted abstract artworks to explore how some are “a little abstract, very abstract or not abstract”.  We also made abstract artworks about ourselves for others to interpret.

Reader's Theatre by Nicole, Tashi, Xander and Jodie. 

Why I dressed up as Tashi. This book week I dressed up as Tashi I have 5 reasons why: It is one of my favourite books 2. The costume is easy to make. 3. The book has lots of interesting mythical creatures like a dragon and I like mythical creatures 4. There are two stories in one book 5. MY NAME IS TASHI!!!

Here are a few photos with our buddies from this morning. The students are learning valuable teaching skills and becoming excellent role models for the younger students.

We started looking at our next unit of inquiry this afternoon. Six teachers brought three artefacts that represent something about them to school and the students had to guess which artefacts belonged to each teacher and why. The students demonstrated some excellent thinking and reasoning skills trying to guess which table belonged to each teacher. Can you guess which teacher the artefacts belong to?  The teachers are Ms Anita, Ms Karyn, Ms Tatiana, Ms Leigh, Ms Dana and Ms Courtney.  Table 1 Student guesses:  Ms Anita - she always dresses up - Yi Lei Ms Leigh - because she is the music teacher and the ear muffs are headphones - Nicole Teacher 2 Student guesses:  Ms Courtney- I think the sweater fits her son. - Eliza Ms Anita - because I know that Ms Anita has a son - Xander Table 3 Student guesses:  Ms Tatiana - She's wearing the same clothes - Josiah Ms Courtney - because she wears skirts everyday - Jasmene ...

Welcome back! I hope you all had an enjoyable break. The students were very happy to be back at school today and told some fabulous holiday stories. We welcomed two new students to our class, Tashi and Hailey. They were made very welcome and settled in well. Please find some important information and dates for this semester below. Homework: The ISPP homework policy states that in Grade 2 students will complete 20-30 minutes of homework 4 nights a week. This includes reading time. All Grade 2 classes send the same homework out each week and we really encourage nightly reading. We try to make the homework unit of inquiry focused. If you have any difficulties with completing homework please let me know. Timetable: The timetable is still the same as first semester and can be found here . Unit of Inquiry:  We are at the completion of our third unit of inquiry. Next week we will begin Where we are in Place and Time. This unit is focusing on artifacts and how we can lear...