S2 had a fantastic time during book week. We would like to thank Miss Anne-Maree for organising the Rural Fire Brigade to come to school. The siren was very loud and the hose was difficult to control. We now have a much greater appreciation for our fire fighters.

Also thank you to the students that voted for our door display “Walter the Farting Dog”. We won 2^nd prize and used the money to buy each student a shark with a rubber and a sharpener from the book fair.

Our sentence building skills are improving as each week we use the laptops to type sentences using the words from our ‘sound of the week’ list. We are becoming more computer literate and require little to no assistance to complete our laptop tasks. To make our maths number activities more exciting, we are using 100 number fidget popper squares. We are counting forwards from a set point, backwards from a set point as well as skip counting; all while using our new squares. They have been very motivating and make our maths lessons fun.

It was great to see Mr Tom again when Miss Cann was away at a PD. Mr Tom took us out into the playground to demonstrate concepts to us. We positioned ourselves under things, over things, in things, beside things and on things. Thank you, Mr Tom, it was good seeing you again.

We continue to explore circuits in science. We have been exploring things that are conductors or insulators. Humans are conductors and we can make a special circuit ball light up and buzz when we touch the terminals with our thumb and forefinger. Jacob went exploring the school ground with our potato clock to test for conductors and insulators in the garden area. He found that silver beet leaves are conductors but soil is not.