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 * Term 2 **


 * Welcome back after the lovely sunny holidays. **
 * This term our landscape learning topics are: **
 * Kitchen Chemistry **
 * Book Week **
 * Road Sense **

= Week 1 = = This week we started our PE lessons with Mr Mannion. We are learning soccer skills. = = = = media type="custom" key="15695548" = = In Landscape Learning we are learning about Kitchen Chemistry. We made our own bubble mixture and then had heaps of fun blowing bubbles. Remember to read the bubbles poem on the Kitchen Chemistry page. = = media type="custom" key="15703756" = = Week 2 = =We made popcorn and made popcorn bags. We were too busy to take photos but you can read our stories about our experience.=

Popping Corn Yesterday we made popcorn. The popcorn was jumping all over the place. There was an electric pan and a popcorn maker. By Ryan Popcorn Fun Yesterday we made popcorn. The first time we made popcorn was in the popcorn maker. By Anamika

Popcorn Fun We made popcorn at school. It was yummy and popcorn is crunchy. By Bronwyn

Popcorn We had fun making popcorn. The popcorn looked like a cloud. They were yummy and the kernels were hard. By Selwin

Popcorn We made popcorn. The popcorn went pop! By Luka

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 * This week we made gingerbread. Watch the great bakers. **

On Friday, some children did experiments at the year 1 assembly. Watch this to learn some amazing science.

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= Week 4 = = We have a student teacher in our class. She is Miss Prasad. She will be with us for 5 weeks. = = = = On Tuesday afternoon we made strawberry and raspberry jelly. = = This week the children wrote their own poems about gingerbread. They also made and decorated a gingerbread man out of paper. They will take photos of the gingerbread men and record themselves reading their poems this week. Look out for these. =

= Week 5 = = This week we have started ripper rugby with Mr Mannion. = = = = = =  = = = = We are making oobleck this week. It is very messy. It acts like a liquid when poured but like a solid when you apply pressure to it. Watch this. = = media type="custom" key="18471700" = = = = Here we are having oobleck fun!!!!! = = = =media type="custom" key="18582086"= =Please listen to our news on the news sharing page.=

On Friday we did many kitchen chemistry experiments.
== == =** A tornado in a bottle **= =   = = = = Week 6 = =On Tuesday we had a surprise visitor in 3a. It belongs to Winelle.= = = = = =  = =  = =Photos by Ryan= = Why do we wear seatbelts? = = If your mum or dad has a car crash, you might get hurt if you are not wearing a seatbelt. If you are not wearing a seatbelt you might get thrown out of the car. = = By Felice = = We have to wear seatbelts because if you have a crash you will get injured. We have to wear seatbelts otherwise you will get hurt. = = By Brenda = = = = When you wear a seatbelt and you dad presses the brakes you will not hurt yourself because the seatbelt stops you from moving. If you don't wear a seatbelt you will get injured. = = By Bruce = = = = Buckle Up = = If you break the rule the police will find you and he will give you a ticket. = = By Vincent = = = media type="custom" key="18930296"
 * Dancing Raisins **
 * Exploding Bag **

= Week 7 = = What a busy week. We had Constable Painter at school to teach us about keeping ourselves safe on roads. We learned about seatbelts, booster seats walking in a carpark and crossing a road. = = Thank you Constable Painter. We will be writing to you soon. = = =

== == Crossing the road with Constable Painter.







= Week 8 = = Hooray!!!!! It's Book Week.Please visit the Book Fair in the school library. To celebrate book week, we have a display of our favourite books. This week we will be talking about the books with our friends. = = = = = = On Tuesday Stu Duval showed us how to use letters and numbers to draw cartoon characters. He also drew a picture with chalk and told us a very interesting story called The Little Green Book Monster. What a great artist and storyteller! = = = =  = = = =On Friday we had a book character dress up day. We did a parade at the year 5 assembly.= =Look out for our photos and writing next week. To end Book Week Tina Brown from Highland Park Library came to read to us. We enjoyed the stories. Some were really funny. Here is The Cat's Pyjamas.=

= ON Friday night we had the junior disco at our school hall. We had heaps of fun. = = media type="custom" key="19306776" = = = = Week 9 = =Look at us dressed as our favourite book characters.= media type="custom" key="19406412" = = = = = = = = = =