Olympics and Calendar Art

Today in the Totara Syndicate we celebrated the Olympics with our very own mini Olympics.  As part of our Inquiry topic in groups we have been designing, modifying and evaluating games. Then as a class we've had fun playing them all and evaluating.  Our game that was chosen was Parachute Hoop. 

This term we've also been busy working on our calendar art. Parents can choose to have our artwork turned into calendars, cards and journals. Parents look out for the order forms coming soon!

Room 2 Calendar Art 2016 by Slidely Slideshow

Ski Trip

On Tuesday Room 2 were fortunate enough to go to Rainbow Ski Field.  For some of us it was our first time touching snow which was very exciting!  We had lots of fun skiing and tobogganing.  Most of us started on the beginning slopes, with a good number of us advancing to the intermediate slope and a group of us making it all the way to the advanced slopes.  The weather was amazing with the sun shining and not a puff of wind. One child was so warm he ended up skiing in his t-shirt and shorts!  Check out our pics below.

Sporty and Creative

This week we have had opportunities to be both sporty and creative.  We have enjoyed creating sunset/sunrise silhouette pictures as part of the School calendar art fundraising activity. Our parents can have our artwork turned into calendars, mousepads and put on the front of diaries. Look out for each individual child's picture on here soon!

We also had our first Futsal coaching session with Ben from Nelson Bays Football. We looked forward to the other sessions with him in the coming weeks.

Out and About

We've had a great week of action this week. It all began on Monday when we visited Piper's Reserve to help Nelmac plant trees and shrubs. They transported us there by bus and then walked us up to a location overlooking the valley. We really enjoyed this experience with some of us managing to plant over 15 plants or shrubs.

The planting theme carried on on Thursday. This time we were joined by Rick from the Brook Sanctuary. Every class has been involved in re-planting some of the gardens.  The aim of this project is to help develop a corridor to attract birds and other native wildlife down from the Brook Sanctuary.

On Tuesday we visited Esther from the Suter Art Gallery. We visited the exhibtion inspired by Dr Seuss's book 'My Many Coloured Days'. As part of this we painted our own little character in colours reflective of a chosen emotion.