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Hi and welcome to 1/2C's homepage. This is me, Ant!

Here are some photos of us acting out our class expectations. You can find these and all our other class expectations on display around our room. 









1/2C have been working on recounts in term 1. We transferred our knowledge of the structure of a recount to interview one another after the holidays and create reports on all of our wonderful holidays. Ant turned this into a newspaper for our class. Kids can read copies of it now in their reading time in class and you can read it on here to by clicking here:

1/2C went to visit Angus' house that is being renovated to make it as environmentally friendly as possible. The following day our class shared their thoughts in this shared recount: On Thursday April 29th 1/2 C went to Angus' half built house. It was kind of like a skeleton of his old house. They are changing the house into an environmentally friendly house. We went there because we wanted to learn about saving water and energy which is our topic this term. It was very close to our school so we walked even though it was raining. First we walked with Angus' mum Alison into the kitchen and living room. It was very messy and dusty. Alison talked about how their house can help save water and energy. She let us touch the insulation, which is organic padding that goes in the walls and roof to keep the cold out in Winter and the heat out in Summer. We touched the windows and noticed they weren't cold because they have two bits of glass to keep the cold out. This is called double glazing. We saw gaps around the window that were going to be filled with a spray foam.The big window at the back of the house will let the sun in in Winter, but in Summmer grapevine leaves will grow and shade the house. The window faces the north to get the most sun. They also have made their windows open to catch the breeze in Summer. There were lots of water savining ideas too, like a grey-water tank. When they have a bath the water goes down a pipe to the tank and then you can use it for watering the garden and flushing the toilet. There will be a rainwater tank too. The water lands on the house and and goes into the water tank so they can use it to wash clothes, dishes and themselves. It can hold 10,000 litres of water! After that Alison showed us the shower heads and taps that have half the holes of normal ones so less water comes out. The last thing we saw was outside where they will have solar panels. That part of the roof will be black so it gets hot, but the rest of the roof is silver to stay cool. They can't come to their house everyday, so they have bottles of water in their plants to water them slowly and so the water can't evaporate. Finally we came back to school and drew pictures about what we had learned. We learned a lot and had fun!

We created a PowerPoint presentation of our learning about sustainability that we showcased at assembly.

We learned a lot about creating a Powerpoint presentation including how to format slides, how to find and add appropriate pictures, and how to add effects like writing entrances and sounds. We used our knowledge of the features of information texts by including titles and subtitles, informative photos and diagrams, facts in sentence and dot point form, as well as a contents and glossary. We hope you enjoy sharing our learning!

In term 2 we are learning about "BIODIVERSITY". To learn about how all life is interconnected we all took one natural thing (like dingo, lizard,ant, air, rock sun etc) and 3 pieces of string. We held onto one end of all our pieces and gave the other end to someone who we were connected to in some way. After we finished we recorded some of our thoughts about the activities- it was amazing how the things we said about how it felt to do the activity were exactly like how things are in nature. Look at the pictures and have a listen to our recording!