It has been a very busy start to term 2 in 1MH. We have been learning all about the Paschal candle and what all of the symbols on the candle represent. We visited the church to look at St Catherine’s Paschal candle and to see the church dressed in the Easter liturgical colours.

We were all very excited to see Mrs Patto on Friday for our PE lesson. We have started to learn all about hockey and finished the lesson with a game where we had to play against a friend to see who could score a goal.

This term our concept is “Life & Living” and we are all very excited about our excursion this week. Last  week we worked in teams to complete a concept map about what we thought were good criteria to determine if an object was a living thing. We compared answers from each of the groups and came up with a great list. We went outside and used our senses to see what we could see, smell, feel and hear around us in our school environment. Then we took a magnifying glass and went on a living and non living scavenger hunt, some groups found all 16 items.

We are going to be learning how to write information reports this term and we have started learning how to read information to find facts and the main idea in a text. Last week we read all about bees. We labeled a diagram as we learnt about the different parts of a bees body. We learnt some interesting facts about bees. 

Did you know:

• Bees have 5 eyes
• They flap their wings 200 times in 1 second 
• They use their antennae to smell, taste, check the air flow and temperature to help them land safely