Term+2

media type="custom" key="11970290" ** Welcome to Term 2. ** I will continue to upload pictures of how our term progresses. Topics and activities may change throughout the term. **Topic:**  **Antarctica**  *Click on Antarctica (above) to navigate to our Term 2 Topic page with clips and resources. *What is Antarctica? *How can animals survive in a place like Antarctica? *How can Man affect a place like Antarctica? media type="custom" key="19671604" align="center"
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**Story-Writing:** ***Recount Stories:** ***Poetry:** media type="custom" key="19609208" align="center" ** Describing Frost using Simile Statements ** (our WALTs were to use an interesting **adjective** describing Frost and to also use the word '**like**'. Some of our little ones are still learning to use a simile statement to describe objects). media type="custom" key="19162654" align="center"
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 * Weekend Recount  stories  || Holiday Recount stories ||
 * [[image:Holding_ice_and_watching_it_melt.jpg width="406" height="319" caption="Look at the ice melting in our hands. Our warmth melts the cold, hard ice."]] || [[image:The_shape_of_ice.jpg width="406" height="319" caption="Look at our pieces of ice."]] ||
 * [[image:Our_ice_is_slowly_melting.jpg width="406" height="319" caption="Our plates of water and small pieces of ice."]] || [[image:The_boys_discussing_their_ice_melting.jpg width="294" height="431" caption="The boys discussing their findings."]] ||

**#1 Descriptive Writing: Describing our Antarctica Pictures** media type="custom" key="19609220" align="center"

**#2 Descriptive Writing: Describing our Antrctica** **Pictures** media type="custom" key="19609240" align="center"

** *Thank You letters to our Parent Helpers ** media type="custom" key="19671628" align="center"

**Maths:** * **Measurement** - Days of the Week, Months of the Year, Hours (O'Clock)
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 * [[image:t1-2012/Our_Clocks.jpg width="266" height="312"]] || [[image:Hickory_Dickory_Dock.jpg width="204" height="350"]] || [[image:t1-2012/Our_clocks_for_play,_lunch_and_home_time.jpg width="336" height="136"]] ||

* **Statistics** - collecting data and making simple picture, bar and column graphs for everyday objects (eg colour of lunch boxes) and discussing results. *** Number Operations ** - addition and subtraction. * **Measurement** - length using non-standard units to measure objects found in and out of the class.
 * [[image:Our_'Shoes'_picture_graph.jpg width="320" height="207" align="center" caption="Our Picture Graph showing the different 'types of shoes' children wore to school one day."]] || [[image:Our_'Lunch_Boxes'_bar_graph.jpg width="302" height="214" align="center" caption="Our 'Bar Graph' that shows the different ways T1 brought their lunches to school (including bought lunches and different coloured lunch boxes)."]] || [[image:Car_Colours_Tally_chart_and_bar_graph.jpg width="199" height="258"]] ||
 * [[image:t1-2012/Getting_our_'Car_colours'_bar_graph_ready.jpg width="337" height="242" align="center" caption="Boys filling in our 'Car Colours' bar graph."]] || [[image:Girls_finishing_the_tally_chart_in_the_modelling_book.jpg width="216" height="295" align="center"]] || [[image:Car_Colours_Bar_Graph.jpg width="192" height="295"]] ||

**Health Topic:**  Life Education - VIP  *Miss Shirley and Harold the Giraffe are visiting our school in Weeks 1 and 2. Our class will be studying the theme **"VIP - Very Important Person"** learning about self-esteem and confidence. media type="custom" key="16441000" align="center" media type="custom" key="16447558" align="center"

*Sorry, Miss Lafaelle forgot to take our camera for our last visit! We will have to wait another year until  we see Miss Shirley and Harold again! :(  **PE:**  ***Large Ball Skills (weeks 1-3)**  ***Cross Country (weeks 4 - 6)** media type="custom" key="18682328" align="center" media type="custom" key="18587282" align="center"

***Skipping (weeks 7 - 9)** **Fitness:** ***Follow the Leader (Playground) - Week 1:** ***Skipping - Week 2:** media type="custom" key="16437262" align="center"

***Partner Exercises - Week 3:** ***Warm-Up Game: Playing the Line Game** The children start running along a self-chosen line and when the teacher yells out a colour, the children have to run along their line until they are close enough to jump on the correct line colour. The children are not allowed to cross through the 'Green' astro-turf but on lines until they can step or jump onto the new coloured line. We have been playing this game since Term 1 but have only remembered to bring our camera out! media type="custom" key="17140002" align="center"

** Day 1 - Learning to work as a team! ** media type="custom" key="17140722" align="center"

** Day 2 - Learning to work as a team (with a difficult task to perform!) ** media type="custom" key="17140914" align="center"

**Art:** ***Crayon/dye** media type="custom" key="19606736" align="center"

** *Folding Paper Penguins ** media type="custom" key="19607998" align="center"

** *Observational Drawings ** (children attempting to pencil sketch animals from our topic wall)