Poetry in motion!

Term Four sees Year Two undertake a poetry study.  We have been looking at some of the features of poetry and learning to recite some great poems.

During the first two weeks we looked at poems that have alliteration and onomatopoeia.  Firstly we discovered that alliteration meant that the poem had a lot of words which had the same beginning sound.  Another way these poems are known is Tongue Twisters!  Here are some examples of alliteration that we made up ourselves.

Then we looked at poems which have onomatopoeia in them  Onomatopoeia means that there are words which describe sound.  Here is a cool You tube clip that tells us more.

We have also learnt to recite poems.  When we are learning to recite these poems we are looking at the rhyming patterns and how the rhyming patterns give the poems their rhythm.  Once we get the rhythm, it's very easy to learn the poem and recite it.  Here we are reciting some poems...

All mixed up!

Our topic this term in Science is "All Mixed Up!"  This involves the chemical sciences and we are looking at simple mixtures around the house and how we can describe their textures and the reactions that happen when certain everyday substances are mixed together.

This week we had fun making slime.  We really enjoyed running it through our fingers and playing with the substance that we made from mixing water and cornflour together!

Mixing mixing....

Slime!

Oooey, gooey, slime.

Magic.  Touch the slime and it is hard,
then it goes runny again! Fun!

IBL

Back in Term One & Term Two, Mrs Hornstra spent some time in Townsville at the TCEO learning all about Inquiry Based Learning.  See previous posts here.

This term sees the IBL course conclude and Mrs Hornstra will present this vodcast to her colleagues at TCEO.  Hit the You tube clip below to see how it turned out.

God's Covenant.

During term four, Year 2 will be looking at the Covenant made between God and man.  We are exploring the stories of Abraham and Moses in the Old Testament and the covenant that they first made with God and how this covenant still exists today.

Our first story that we explored was the story of Abraham and Sarah.  God made a promise to Abraham when he was very old that his decendants would become a great nation.  Abraham and his wife Sarah believed in God's promise and in return they believed he was the one true God and followed God's instrutions.  God chose Abraham because he was a very good man and at this time there were many bad people in the world.  Abraham and Sarah had a baby when Abraham was 100 years old.  Abraham lived to be 175 years old! Watch this Youtube clip to find out more about their story.

This week we will look at the story of Moses who continued God's covenant many years later.  Here is the story of Moses and the 10 comandments.

Here is Isabelle with our own class Holy Bible that we made.  It has all the books of the Old and New Testament.  As we have learnt, The Bible was written over thousands of years by many people.  There are books of stories, poetry, letters and songs.  It is the biggest selling book in the world.

Our Holy Bible.

All the books inside!

The seven continents.

We are enjoying looking at the map of the world this term.  We have worked out where the equator lies and the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.

Now its time to learn the names and locations of the seven continents and the 5 oceans.

Here's some information to help:

Our excursion to the Proserpine Museum

Today we all walked the short distance to the Proserpine Museum.  We had no idea that such a great place was so close to us and had so many interesting things to look at.

We went to the museum as part of our history unit "From Black and White to Technicolour."  We have been looking at changes in technology in peoples lives and how these changes have affected how we live today.
We have looked at changes in the kitchen and how we used to cook and store food.  At the Museum we saw...

An old dresser to store food and wood for the fire where
 they cooked before they had electricity.

An old fridge from the 1960s.

An Old Mixer.

We have learnt about the changes in how we washed ourselves, clothes and our houses.  There were some great examples of old types of washing machines.

This is an old washing machine made by Breville.
It has a wringer on the top to squeeze the water out of the clothes.

Here are some very old fashioned irons.

Before we had mobiles we used rotary phones and...

There was a switchboard that an operator connected your calls through to others.

We had a wonderful day and we would like to thank Mrs Greenwood for organising the excursion and to all the parents who came along with us.

Watch it Grow!

'We have really been enjoying our science topic this term.  We have watched as our meal worms have turned from larvae to pupas and we now have some darkling beetles!

Look closely and you can see pupas and a beetle.

Can you see the beetle?

We made a very interesting timeline showing the development of the meal worms. The top line showed their development in the warm classroom and the bottom line showed their development in the fridge.  Thank you to Mrs Jones who helped us put this together!

The mealworms in the classroom developed quicker than those in the fridge.

We created life cycle posters of other living things that go through metamorphosis.

We also compared how our bodies change as we grow older, compared to those living things that go through metamorphosis.  Unlike frogs and meal worms, we keep the same form throughout our lives.  We had a fun time guessing who the baby photos were!