Cool Cricket at Logan Park

 

Perfect Portraits

Look at the amazing artwork by the artists in Room 2. We were so proud to share them at assembly on Friday. Come into Room 2 for a closer look.

Art, artists and portraits

We have been learning about drawing portraits and the different ways artists do portraits. We have learnt that if you draw a picture of yourself it is called a self-portrait. We looked at the book "Willy's Pictures" By Anthony Browne and found an artist called Frida Kahlo who painted 55 self-portraits. She had a tough time throughout her life because she got badly hurt in an accident so she often painted herself in ways that showed this. We also talked about the famous Mona Lisa and wondered is she smiling and if she is what is she smiling about? Take a look at this website for kids about some famous artists for more information.

Colour with Leo

Beach Education

We had an amazing time at St Kilda beach, take a look!

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

People Puppets

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Captain Underpants

Room 2 love Captain Underpants. We have just finished reading the very first Captain Underpants novel and it was hilarious. It is about two boys called George and Harold who are quite naughty and like to get into trouble at school, and make comic books about a superhero called Captain Underpants. They get in big trouble with the principal of their school so they decide to try and hypnotise him to get out of trouble but it all goes wrong! We are just starting on the second book called The Attack of the Talking Toilets, we just can't wait to read it everyday.
I have put a link to the website for the author, Dav Pilkey, in the links box on the right hand side of this page, check it out!

Exploring

Our big area of learning for this term is called "Me in My Environment" so today we explored our school environment. We realised that our school is very big and has a lot of buildings but also a lot of trees, bush and grass. We walked all the way up to the very top field, up "heart attack hill" to look at some areas of our school some of us had never seen before because we don't use them very much. Next we came back to room 2 and wrote down all the things we had seen on post it notes to help us with our next task. Next we used our ideas to work with a buddy to draw big maps of our school environment. They are starting to look amazing and have so many interesting features. When they are finished we will hang them up in our classroom to help us with the next part of our learning. Hopefully we will put some of them on the blog too.

Did you know ........

That as well as interesting news and amazing work, our blog has a page with our homework sheet on it just in case you lose yours! It also links to other blogs in our school so you can see what all the children at NEVNS are up to. Just scroll down to the part that shows the list of blogs on the right hand side. Our blog is a very handy thing!

Welcome back!

Yay, it's back to school time. Today I had a wonderful first day at school with my new Room 2 crew! I am so excited about the fantastic group of children I have this year they are already working so beautifully together and they work really hard too. Well done guys!

Happy New Year

Can you believe it is almost 2011? I hope you are all enjoying your holidays and are being kind to your families. I have been doing lots of walking with my dogs, today we walked the pineapple track, it was a really long way! Poor Gus is snoring now he is so tired. Take care :) Miss B