Grade 2
Term 3
It's been a busy term so far - we had a great time recently for our Father's Day Morning and at our Spooktacular Concert with Grades 2/3/4! Thank you to our families for supporting these special events - the costumes at the concert looked AMAZING!!!
Please ensure you are keeping up to date with special activities via the school newsletter and your child's class dojo.
Tuesday 3rd September - Twisted Science Excursion (Echuca)
Monday 9th September – Concert (Grades 2-4) – rehearsal is during the day (permission notes have been sent home) and the performance is at 7pm in the evening
Friday 20th September - House Athletics (and early finish at 2.30pm for end of Term 3)
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. Please ensure your child’s items are clearly named, especially jumpers as the weather starts to cool down!
Literacy
Please ensure your child has a routine for their nightly reading to support the daily reading in the classroom. Readers coming home each night should include 2 books – one new book and one to practice fluency (the book from the night before). See your child’s teacher for the best time to assist with classroom reading – perhaps a grandparent or aunty/uncle can join us for reading if parents are working. 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!
Our writing genre this term will include information reports. 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.
Mathematics
Our continued focus this term in Number will include place value and number facts. We will be partitioning numbers – into hundreds, tens and ones. Look around at home for opportunities to bring number into your discussions at home!
We have looked at Multiplication and Division - using arrays to help us understand 'groups of' and 'sharing. Fractions and Time have also been focus areas - we've made links between the two, a clock can be divided into 4 quarters to help us learn the time!
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.
At home, look for opportunities to 'share' and divide, perhaps a packet of biscuits. How many 'groups of' might you need to make party bags for a birthday party? If you were planting vegetables in the garden, perhaps you might plant them in an array, how many rows would there be?
Integrated Studies
The focus this term is “Chemical Science” – Everyday materials can be physically changed or combined with other materials in a variety of ways for particular purposes
Specialist Classes
Our Grade 2 classes have PE, Music & Drama and Chinese on Thursdays as a rotation for 2 hours. We then have Art for one hour each week (Gr. 2H on Mondays and 2EL/2DL on Wednesdays).
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 term so far - we had a great time recently for our Father's Day Morning and at our Spooktacular Concert with Grades 2/3/4! Thank you to our families for supporting these special events - the costumes at the concert looked AMAZING!!!
Please ensure you are keeping up to date with special activities via the school newsletter and your child's class dojo.
Tuesday 3rd September - Twisted Science Excursion (Echuca)
Monday 9th September – Concert (Grades 2-4) – rehearsal is during the day (permission notes have been sent home) and the performance is at 7pm in the evening
Friday 20th September - House Athletics (and early finish at 2.30pm for end of Term 3)
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. Please ensure your child’s items are clearly named, especially jumpers as the weather starts to cool down!
Literacy
Please ensure your child has a routine for their nightly reading to support the daily reading in the classroom. Readers coming home each night should include 2 books – one new book and one to practice fluency (the book from the night before). See your child’s teacher for the best time to assist with classroom reading – perhaps a grandparent or aunty/uncle can join us for reading if parents are working. 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!
Our writing genre this term will include information reports. 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.
Mathematics
Our continued focus this term in Number will include place value and number facts. We will be partitioning numbers – into hundreds, tens and ones. Look around at home for opportunities to bring number into your discussions at home!
We have looked at Multiplication and Division - using arrays to help us understand 'groups of' and 'sharing. Fractions and Time have also been focus areas - we've made links between the two, a clock can be divided into 4 quarters to help us learn the time!
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.
At home, look for opportunities to 'share' and divide, perhaps a packet of biscuits. How many 'groups of' might you need to make party bags for a birthday party? If you were planting vegetables in the garden, perhaps you might plant them in an array, how many rows would there be?
Integrated Studies
The focus this term is “Chemical Science” – Everyday materials can be physically changed or combined with other materials in a variety of ways for particular purposes
Specialist Classes
Our Grade 2 classes have PE, Music & Drama and Chinese on Thursdays as a rotation for 2 hours. We then have Art for one hour each week (Gr. 2H on Mondays and 2EL/2DL on Wednesdays).
Class Dojo – please regularly check your child’s class dojo page for reminders of upcoming events and to see photos from the classroom.
