Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Enjoy your family time and I look forward to seeing you all next year when you pop in to Room 2 to say hello.

Well it is hard to believe there is only one day to go until school finishes for the year. We have been very busy making Christmas gifts for our parents, hope you like them. Today we finished our special advent calendars for our Mums. I told the children they could have 2 days off and then on December 18 you can start opening your own calendar and enjoy having your children help you out leading up to Christmas. ENJOY!

Teddy Bears Picnic on PhotoPeach

Room 2's Assembly on PhotoPeach

The Grand Finale after a fun Book Week. Don't they all look fantastic.

When we arrived back from the Life Education Classroom we were surprised to find a special message on the board from Harold. We will have to send him some of our Ted stories or maybe we could write a special story about Harold.

Mums, Grans and lunchtime-yeah on PhotoPeach

Have a go Athletics on PhotoPeach

Room 2's high jump stars on PhotoPeach

Riverlands School Art Show on PhotoPeach

Magical Fish on PhotoPeach

Summer Soccer Stars on PhotoPeach

Last week we were lucky enough to go tree planting with Room 8 at Simmonsen Reserve. We helped to plant 200 trees and then we weeded around trees that children who use to be in Room 2, planted 2 years ago. We could hardly see them until we pulled away the long grass and weeds. Then we put mulch around the bottom of all the trees to help the roots keep moist and stop them drying out.
It is going to be exciting to watch our trees grow as we grow in our time at Riverlands School.
I wonder how big they will be when we are in Year 8. We will have to wait and see.

Earthquake Fundraiser for St Paul's School on PhotoPeach

On Friday we celebrated our learning with Room 1 and a large group of parents. We were proud to be able to share with them some of the interesting things we had discovered during our volcano inquiry.Our cinquain poems and "things we have learnt" slideshow are both posted on this blog for you to see. Of course one of the most exciting parts of the afternoon was the Volcano Party. What an amazing array of Volcano food. We had to invite our buddy classes to help eat it all. Thanks to all the parents for supporting your children by attending and /or providing food.

Today at Buddy time our big buddies made smoothies with us. They had brought all sorts of yummy ingredients ( not all so healthy) including berries, yoghurt, icecream, milk, chocolate, and other yummy stuff. They tasted delicious. Thanks Buddies.

Volcano Cinquains on PhotoPeach

Today when I was at school I was lucky enough to see our last butterfly hatch out. It has been over a month since it changed into its chysalis. It has been so cold it has taken twice as long as normal.

On the last day of Term 2 we had a party to farewell 6 children moving on to Room 1. We played pass the parcel, musical chairs and showed off our dancing skills. We had delicious cupcakes, fairybread and yummy fresh pineappple & kiwifriut. We hope Max, Lachlan, Cody, Reuben, Sophie and Rilla enjoy their new class. Don't forget to visit us in Room 2.Have a look at the photos below.

Imagine having to go down to the river to collect water every day for washing and cooking. You can see by the look on Max's face that it was a very hard job.

Disco Fever

Today we had fun making funny sentences. We even remembered to have use capital letters and fullstops.

The Journey so Far on PhotoPeach

What an exciting afternoon yesterday. We went outside to see what all the noise was about and saw the builders had fenced off Room 5. Now we have to go the long way round to get outside. Then before we knew it things started to happen!! Room 5 began to rise up into the air. We looked out the window to see a big truck beginning to lift it off the foundations and ready to be moved onto its new site.

Jackson gave us a jar full of swan plant that had some big caterpillars quietly munching. It has been interesting watching them change.We are really looking forward to seeing all the other changes in the next few weeks.

Butterfly Life Cycle on PhotoPeach

It was a cold, bleak day last Friday when all of the school took part in Heart Jam. It was trying really hard to rain but everyone joined in raising over $300. Well done everyone.

Brayshaw Park Old Schoolroom on PhotoPeach