Introducing Rupert

We had a very big class vote. There were lots of names suggested -> Jack, Meppsy, Meppanoni, DJ, Tickle toes, Stephanie and Bob. In the end the most popular name was Rupert... it got five votes.

Welcome to the classroom, Rupert!

Our New Crayfish!!!

 Over the weekend, a freshwater crayfish (yabbie) snuck into our classroom fish tank. It wrote us a letter and left it stuck to the whiteboard. The letter was wet and soggy and crumpled. The yabbie has six legs; two big, snappy claws; long antennae (some big and some short). It's a brownish, yellowish, greenish colour and it has a bit of red on its elbows. It has little eyes that look at us and it's made itself a bed. We have some tiny little fish in the tank that we think it will eat.

Tomorrow in our class meeting we're going to give the yabbie a name!

Selling Sunflowers: Part I

Clarrie's mum Jodie brought in some sunflower heads to share with the class and she suggested perhaps we could sell them. As we're learning about money in maths at the moment it seemed like the perfect project. And in true 1/2B style, we've jumped into it, bursting at the seams with enthusiasm.

The first step was finding out how many seeds we have....

"On Tuesday, my class decided that we would have a sunflower shop. Clarrie brought in some sunflowers and we picked off the seeds. We had to put the seeds in groups of 10."   Olivia 

"Yesterday we had to count sunflower seeds by ten, like this 10, 20, 30, 40, 50,60. It to a long time. We did it because we wanted to do a sunflower shop!" Romola

"Yesterday we counted sunflower seeds. We put the seeds in groups of ten. The seeds were stripey." Lucinda

"Yesterday we counted seeds. I counted up to 305. I had black seeds." Gareth

"We are going to sell sunflower seeds. It feels like we are going to be rich! " Mia

"On Tuesday we put them in groups and we counted them by 10s. My group counted up to 420!"  Sunita

1/2B's Sensational Shops

 "Cents are silver, dollars are gold!!"

Every shop needs a float!

Here in 1/2B we have been busy learning all about money! We've learnt what a float is. We've learnt how to make change.Today we set up our own spectacular shops around our room. We took turns to be shopkeepers and customers (on different days). We sold all sorts of things - books, tiles, lolly-pops, cushions, dry pasta, magnifying glasses, chocolate, homemade bubblegum, pencils, crayons and telescopes.

We practiced working out change. We used counting in tens charts to help us. It was interesting and super fun!! Next time we go to the shops, we can help our parents work out the change.

We each had 3 dollars to spend.

Look what I bought!!

A bird's eye view of one of our shops.

A Day Full of Leprechauns

Hello and welcome to our blog!!

We are 1/2B at Bell Primary School in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. We will be writing this blog to tell you about our work in the classroom.

Today we wore green. It was a special day - St Patrick's Day! This is a special day for Ireland. We made green apple, lime jelly. It tasted like sour apple and green icy pole, it was sweet (because of the sugar) and sour and yummy at the same time. It was cold and it tickled our tongues. It wobbled in our mouths. It was just right!!

We had a visit from a man called Nelius who grew up in Ireland and we learnt about Ireland. We heard the story of St Patrick and the snakes and we made our own Irish green snakes. We had an exciting, fabtabulous, GREEN day!!