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Our Mums!

May 11, 2012 by · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

Today we thought about our Mums and how special they are in our lives.  Ms. Tieppo asked us to write something that we like about our Mums.  Here are our responses. 

I love it when you cuddle me at night.  by Emma

My Mum is special because she cares for me.  By Daniel Re.

I love my beautiful and wonderful Mum because she makes me happy all the time.  By Victoria

I love my Mum because she takes care of me when I’m sick and buys me footy cards and clothes.  By Roman

I love you because you take care of me and everything else.  By Harry

My Mum is special to me because she takes care of me when I’m hurt.  By Bridie

My Mum is special because she barracks for Collingwood.  By Nathan S.

I love you because you give me everything.  By Anthony

I Love you because you make pancakes for Oli and I. By Sebastian

I love my Mum when she cooks yummy food.  By Michael

My Mum is special because she makes my lunch.  By William

You are special because you take care of me and you love me.  By Megan

My Mum is special to me when she hugs me at night and kisses me.  By Hannah

Thank you for loving me.  By Daniel Ro.

My Mum is special because she loves me and cares for me.  By Jacob

I Like you Mama.  From Nathan W.

I love you when you give me hugs and kisses.  By Alessio

I love my Mum because she kisses me.  By Chantelle

I love you because you love me. By Ava

Thank you for taking me out.  By Sophie

I love my Mum because she takes care of me.  By Faith

I love you when you hug and kiss me.  By Ella

I love you because you are special to me.  By Renee

 

 A Very Happy Mother’s Day to all the mums, aunties and  grandmothers. 

Enjoy your day!

What is the best thing about your Mum?

 

 

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Learning About Life In A Pond Habitat!

May 7, 2012 by · 9 Comments · Uncategorized

Today all the Year 2 children went to a pond habitat to learn about the creatures and how their environment is important for their survival.
We all collected mini beasts from the pond with our nets and then looked at them under a microscope. It was amazing! We saw bloodworms, backswimmers, water fleas, dragonfly nymphs and spiders.

It was so much fun making frog noises too.  Jess our guide told us that there are over 300 species of frogs.  At the Sanctuary, the rangers provide special places for frogs to hide and live.  We were very lucky to see a tiny frog.  Jess told us never to handle a frog as any chemicals or soaps on our hands can make it sick.

Take a look at what we got up to.  Have you ever been to a pond?  What did you see?

Life In A Pond Excursion! on PhotoPeach

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Our Special Visitor, Steph!

April 29, 2012 by · 7 Comments · Uncategorized

Learning About Sembalum, Lombok!

 

On Friday, 2TM had a special visitor.  Steph did some work with 2TM last year.  The children (who are Year 3′s now) made some picture storybooks for the students to use in their very small library.

Steph has done lots of work with the Community Development Centre in Sembalum, which is in Indonesia.  She has spent a lot of time in Sembalum and has a passion for teaching the students and adults how to speak English.  The children and families are so happy and have beautiful smiles.

The school in Sembalum is very different to our school.  The walls are very bare and the teacher has a blackboard and chalk.  Many of the young children walk to school for many hours and they have a special mat where they sit to do their school work.  We tried to skype with them earlier this year, when Stef was in Sembalum but their internet connection is very unreliable in the village. 

 Steph showed us a powerpoint about life in Sembalum and we learned so much about their culture.  We made a Slideshare which tells about all the interesting things we learned from Steph.  Stay tuned as we are keen to make more picture storybooks for their library.

Steph’s visit to 2 tm!
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Gymnastics Day!

March 6, 2012 by · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

Today was Gymnastics Day!  Mr. Zac takes us for this lesson.  Today he introduced us to some new equipment and skills.  He always reminds us about being safe on the equipment. 

Some children in 2TM like gymnastics so much that they want to take up gymnastics as an after school activity!  Have a look at our balancing skills.

Gymnastics Day! on PhotoPeach

 What do you like about gymnastics?

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Manners!

March 5, 2012 by · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

Today we read a story called “I Won’t Say Please” by Mij Kelly and Ruth Palmer.

 In this story a Queen Bee never says the word “Please”.  Nobody will do what she tells them to do unless she says “please” .   This makes her very sad and miserable.  The story ends when the Queen Bee finally says please when someone saves her.

We talked about the importance of manners and we learned a lot from each other.  Many children have special manners at their dinner table and many have been told by adults to respect both adults and children.  We made a special book of manners. 

  What do you think of our book?  What special manners do you remember?

Our book of manners! powerpoint

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Pancake Tuesday

February 21, 2012 by · 7 Comments · Uncategorized

Today it was Shrove Tuesday or Pancake day in our classroom.  We made our own pancakes with milk, flour, sugar and eggs. 

When the pancakes were cooked, we put maple syrup, sugar or jam on them.  Lots of children in 2TM tooks photos of our pancake day.  We hope you like them.  2TM had a wonderful time today.

What do you like on your pancakes?

Do you use the same ingredients to make pancakes?

Pancake Day in 2TM on PhotoPeach

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We’re Back For 2012!

February 13, 2012 by · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

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This is our first post back for 2012.

Ms. Tieppo and Mrs. Mosbauer look forward to involving the new members of 2TM in the “Windows into Learning” blog. 

For many children in our class this will be the first time they have had a class blog.  We will be learning about the importance of  posting good comments and how to stay safe online!
We are looking forward to a great year ahead and hope to make lots of new friends in new places across the world.
Here is a record of some things we have been up to this week.  Can you guess who the wolf is?

What do you like about your new class? Do you have a class blog?

We’re Back! on PhotoPeach

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Christmas Is…….

December 19, 2011 by · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

It has been a wonderful year in 2TM.  We can’t believe it is already Christmas time again.  We talked about what Christmas means to us.  here are some thoughts.

Christmas is….

  • having fun. Belen
  • a celebration of Jesus’ birth. Mitchell
  • baby Jesus’ birthday. Oscar
  • having fun opening presents.  Josephine
  • Jesus’ birthday.  Jasmine
  • the best day of the year.  Matthew G.
  • Jesus.  Bailey
  • when we celebrate Jesus’ birthday.    Campbell
  • Jesus’ birth.    Aidan
  • awesome because we get presents. Jamii
  • the birth of Jesus. Morgan
  • about giving things.  Viduni
  • Jesus’ birthday.  Sebastian
  • about having fun with all your family.  Riley
  • Jesus’ birth. Hannah
  • a time when Jesus is born and everybody gathers.  Liam
  • a special time when you get presents from Santa and when Jesus is born.  Tarrant
  • having fun and sharing. Bianca
  • about Jesus being born. Layla
  • fun and fantastic. Lukas
  • the birth of Jesus. Emily
  • giving.  Renato
  • special because you celebrate Jesus’ birth.  Phillip

Christmas is.. on PhotoPeach

We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year! 

Thanks to the many families and visitors that have made our 2TM blog such a success!

Footloose Friday

December 2, 2011 by · 24 Comments · Uncategorized

Today we had a “Footloose Friday”.  Ms. Tieppo read an article by Stephen Heppell about Shoeless learning Spaces in Scandanavia.  She thought we would love to do a whole day’s work with no shoes on.   Even Ms. Tieppo took her shoes off too!

We did work very well today but the excitement of no shoes was evident.  We will try Footloose Friday again next Friday.   Here is a quick snapshot of our shoeless day.  We even danced to the Footloose song this afternoon.  So much fun!

 

Footloose Friday on PhotoPeach

Do you have shoeless days at your school?

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Monster Book Marks- Pay It Forward!

November 29, 2011 by · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

Today our class was very excited as we made our “Monster Bookmarks”.  Miss Y had all our special paper and art materials for us to create our very own Monster bookmarks.  They look so colourful that we will never lose a page in our books again!

We really enjoyed making the bookmarks as we knew that our gold coin would be helping Miss Y to buy books for Miss Wilkinson who teaches in Bangladesh.  We know how much we love reading books at our school and it would be nice for other children to be able to have books too.  You can read about the other things happening in our Library for Paying It Forward.

Thank you Miss Y for helping us to make a difference!  Take a look at our creations!

How have you helped other people in the world?

 

Making monster bookmarks!