Toy Designs

To finish our science unit we were asked to make a toy car and predict how it would move when we applied a push or pull.  We had great fun using our skills to make our toy car and then we went to the undercover area to test and evaluate our toys. We had races to see whose car went the furthest, and then we tested them on the ramp.

Push and Pull

Today in Science we looked at objects that can move in different ways. You can move things by pushing them and pulling them. We can also use push and pull forces to make something change shape, stop moving or change direction.

 When we pulled the paper it stretched.

 When we pushed and pulled play dough we made different shapes.

 We can knot a string when we push and pull.

Author Visit

Today we enjoyed listening to the author of a book called 'Mavis the Amazing Tugboat'.  Her name is Dianne Lonergan.

Dianne read us the story of a brave river man called Captain Doug Hislop and his tugboat Mavis, who saved the Gateway Bridge during the Brisbane 2011 floods. Have you read this book?

Cross Country Carnival

On Tuesday we participated in our school cross country carnival. We ran half a kilometre around Memorial Park. We all ran well and at the end of the carnival the points were added up. Collins house which is Gold were the winners! We were proud of all the year two runners. We have posted some photos of 2J before we got on the bus to take us to the park.

Picasso Portraits

2J have been looking at the work by a famous Spanish artist named Pablo Picasso. We noticed how asymmetrical the faces in Picasso's paintings are. We made our own Picasso type portraits using only geometric shapes. On each shape we drew large features e.g. eye, nose and mouth. We glued these on to our art paper and then we coloured in the background. We have displayed our work for everyone to enjoy. Our teacher thinks they are masterpieces!

Dance Cart Concert

Last Thursday was our dance cart concert. We had a lot of fun dancing to 'Dig a Little Deeper' from the movie The Princess and the Frog. Our teacher thought we looked awesome in our costumes!

Science

In science, we have been looking at the properties of different materials. Last week we made some boats by combining natural materials. We tested them in some water and they all floated.