11/11/11 @ 11am.
Today Remembrance Day.

TODAY, Remembrance Day falls on the 11th day of the 11th month of the 11th year of this century.

It is a truly historic day, and in a special tribute to those who have served and sacrificed under the banner of the Australian Defence Forces.

Remembrance Day is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty. Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November to remember the official end of World War I on that date in 1918; fighting ended “at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month” of 1918.

The red remembrance poppy has become a familiar emblem of Remembrance Day due to the poem “In Flanders Fields”. These poppies bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I, their brilliant red colour an appropriate symbol for the blood spilled in the war.

Our class will be a part of the whole school assembly at 11am. We will meet in our Hall to remember all of the soldiers who have fought for our country.

This week we displayed some poppy art work in our front office.
Here are some examples of our work. We encourage you to come in and look at all of the paintings – they look quite stunning all on display.

Last Friday, the 4th of November, our class went on an excursion to the Migration Museum in the city.
Check out our photos on the excursions / camps page in the next few days as we upload photos and information about our excursion.
Here are some of the photos that we have.

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Today we met with our Year 5 buddy class – as we do every Tuesday.
This week we went to the gym and played lots of different games. Some of these were Up Words, Uno, pick up sticks, card games, Connect Four, dominoes, concentration, chess and lots more!
We had a great time – lots of fun and laughs together.

Here are some photos of today’s games.

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Do you have a buddy class? If you do, what types of activities do you like to do together?

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This is our last week of the Family Blogging Challenge. We’ve loved reading everyone’s thoughtful comments each morning as we start our day.

Our last question for our families to try and answer is:
What were your favourite games to play at school or after school?
Can you explain to us how to play the game so that we could try to learn it?
We look forward to hearing from you!!

Today we had the whole Unit to ourselves. The 2 other Year 2 classes went on an excursion to the Migration Museum – we’re going tomorrow!

In Play we could choose any activity we liked. We needed to choose our activity (and stick with it!), find any materials that we might need and work on our activity together.

Some of the activities we did were:

• building a HUGE cubby house
• box construction
• using the computers – to play Maths games or different sites we like
• using the iPad – with different apps like Super 7
• playing card games
• using construction equipment.

                         

                                    

                                 

                               

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We are about to start our third week of the Family Blogging Month Challenge. We’ve had a huge amount of support from our families, with lots of positive comments and feedback for us. We LOVE to read your comments at the start of our day.

Here is a photo of our chart – we have to copy this one and wipe it clear to start recording again – some children have run out of room to record who’s making comments!! Great news!!

So the question for this week is:
How have things changed in school since you were at school?
What differences do you see now in our class compared to when you were at school?

We look forward to your comments and look forward to hearing from you!

Today we invited the class of new Receptions to be a part of our buddy class. Our buddy class is Ms Grant’s Year 5 class and we meet every Tuesday to do different activities. Some of these activities are partner reading, Art/Craft, model making, computing and outdoor games. We LOVE our weekly catch ups with our Buddy Class. The new Reception class didn’t have a buddy class and so we invited them to join us for our weekly catch up. Today they started by joining us for eating time at the start of lunch.
We enjoyed meeting the new Receptions and think that they are our ‘mini buddies!!’ We are looking forward to meeting with them again.

Our class was very excited to be the ‘older’ children for the Receptions.

Here are some photos of us all eating together.

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A huge thank you to all of our families who have commented on our blog! We’ve loved sharing and reading your comments – it certainly makes our work feel really valued.
This week we have some questions as a part of our challenge:

What was your favourite thing to do at school?
What did you like to learn about?
Did you have a favourite subject at school?
What are your best memories of school when you were a child?

We look forward to hearing your responses.

We’d like to introduce you to a new student in our class. Her name is Maisie and she is a Year 2. Maisie likes swimming and playing with her friends. She has 2 younger brothers, 1 of them, Owen, started at our school last week. He is a new Reception. Maisie used to live in England but LOVES Australia.
Maisie has settled into our class really well and we hope that Maisie enjoys her time with us.