Grade 2
Term 1 Update
It’s been a busy few weeks since the start of our term – please continue ensuring your child gets a good sleep each night, packs a healthy lunch and has established a routine each day – this may include choosing the best time to read depending on your family schedule.
School Hats are to be worn outside due to our Sunsmart policy. Sunscreen is also recommended to be applied at home prior to coming to school.
Drink Bottles (with water only) are to be brought to school each day. It is important that the students have drink bottle to keep hydrated, especially in the warmer parts of the year.
Literacy
Daily reading in the classroom begins with a big book where teachers will model a variety of CAFÉ reading strategies. Students then practice this in the classroom with readers, along with enjoying a book through partner reading. Readers coming home each night should include 2 books – one new book and one to practice fluency (the book from the night before).
In writing, we will be focusing on correctly spelling high frequency words, using our sound knowledge to have a go at unknown words and ensuring we have capital letters and full stops in the correct places. Each week this term we will be looking at a particular sound each week as part of our Soundwaves Spelling program.
Thank you to our family members who are able to help with classroom reading throughout the week! We appreciate your time and the children love having you join us for reading time!
Mathematics
Our continued focus this term in Number has been addition, place value and number facts. We will be partitioning numbers – into hundreds, tens and ones. We will be looking at chance and data, such as likely, unlikely, certain and impossible. Look around at home for opportunities to bring number into your discussions at home!
At home you might like to practice number facts to 10 (eg: 6 + 4 = 10) and fact families (eg: 2 + 3 = 5 and 4 + 1 = 5). These facts are vital to mathematics success if they are automatic. Perhaps a good time is as your child is helping to set the dinner table – how many knives and forks do we need? How many cups of water? What are the fact families at your home for each of these? Eg: at Mrs. Hunter’s house she needs 4 knives, 4 forks and 1 baby spoon. The number facts for 4 include: 1 + 3 = 4, 2 + 2 = 4, 3 + 1 = 4 and 4 + 0 = 4.
Integrated Studies
The focus this term is “I Belong, You Belong” and our ‘Big Idea’ is we all belong to different groups. Our students will be using their voice to help the teachers plan activities every 2 weeks! Each class may be doing slightly different activities depending on what they decided to do – what a great way to bring individuality into our classrooms! Check with your child what they have done so far. . .some grades have made kites to show how they belong to different teams and some grades have been inspired by a Henri Matisse artwork to show how they work in teams. . .
Specialist Classes
Our Grade 2 classes will have PE, Music & Drama and Chinese on Thursdays as a rotation for 2 hours. We then have Art for one hour each week.
Class Dojo – please regularly check your child’s class dojo page for reminders of upcoming events and to see photos from the classroom.
It’s been a busy few weeks since the start of our term – please continue ensuring your child gets a good sleep each night, packs a healthy lunch and has established a routine each day – this may include choosing the best time to read depending on your family schedule.
School Hats are to be worn outside due to our Sunsmart policy. Sunscreen is also recommended to be applied at home prior to coming to school.
Drink Bottles (with water only) are to be brought to school each day. It is important that the students have drink bottle to keep hydrated, especially in the warmer parts of the year.
Literacy
Daily reading in the classroom begins with a big book where teachers will model a variety of CAFÉ reading strategies. Students then practice this in the classroom with readers, along with enjoying a book through partner reading. Readers coming home each night should include 2 books – one new book and one to practice fluency (the book from the night before).
In writing, we will be focusing on correctly spelling high frequency words, using our sound knowledge to have a go at unknown words and ensuring we have capital letters and full stops in the correct places. Each week this term we will be looking at a particular sound each week as part of our Soundwaves Spelling program.
Thank you to our family members who are able to help with classroom reading throughout the week! We appreciate your time and the children love having you join us for reading time!
Mathematics
Our continued focus this term in Number has been addition, place value and number facts. We will be partitioning numbers – into hundreds, tens and ones. We will be looking at chance and data, such as likely, unlikely, certain and impossible. Look around at home for opportunities to bring number into your discussions at home!
At home you might like to practice number facts to 10 (eg: 6 + 4 = 10) and fact families (eg: 2 + 3 = 5 and 4 + 1 = 5). These facts are vital to mathematics success if they are automatic. Perhaps a good time is as your child is helping to set the dinner table – how many knives and forks do we need? How many cups of water? What are the fact families at your home for each of these? Eg: at Mrs. Hunter’s house she needs 4 knives, 4 forks and 1 baby spoon. The number facts for 4 include: 1 + 3 = 4, 2 + 2 = 4, 3 + 1 = 4 and 4 + 0 = 4.
Integrated Studies
The focus this term is “I Belong, You Belong” and our ‘Big Idea’ is we all belong to different groups. Our students will be using their voice to help the teachers plan activities every 2 weeks! Each class may be doing slightly different activities depending on what they decided to do – what a great way to bring individuality into our classrooms! Check with your child what they have done so far. . .some grades have made kites to show how they belong to different teams and some grades have been inspired by a Henri Matisse artwork to show how they work in teams. . .
Specialist Classes
Our Grade 2 classes will have PE, Music & Drama and Chinese on Thursdays as a rotation for 2 hours. We then have Art for one hour each week.
Class Dojo – please regularly check your child’s class dojo page for reminders of upcoming events and to see photos from the classroom.
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