From the Year 2 Classroom
Sacred Heart Primary School Yarrawonga
Week 3 already! The children have been working so hard in all areas of their learning. The weather has been absolutely beautiful, and the busy-ness has well and truly begun.
In Literacy the children have started reviewing and revising spelling patterns and tricky words we have learnt this semester. There are so many patterns, digraphs and rules to remember that it is just as important that we go back over what we have learnt so that children have many strategies for both reading and writing. In writing, the children have loved the focus on poetry. We have now covered 1, 2 and 3 word poems, similie poems and haiku poems. Next week they will master cinquain, free verse and a class poem. We will also begin reading our novel the 27th Annual African Hippopotamus Race.
In Maths over the next two weeks, we are continuing our learning on fractions and fractions of time. We have looked at how we make fractions- halves, quarters and eighths and how we can make fractions of a collection. We have used lots of shapes, folding paper and using rulers to help with this skill.
On Friday 2B will be heading over to Woods point to spend some time with our community members. In week 1, 2M visited the residents and everyone had a fabulous time.
Reminders:
- Could you please have a conversation with your child if they ride a bike or scooter to school about riding safety. We have had some notifications that children are riding without helmets, on the wrong side of the road and possibly not looking at their surroundings properly. We love that children are riding, we just want them to be safe coming to and from school.
- With the weather warming up children need to be bringing their own hats and drink bottles to school EVERY day. The Year 2 Team
dfrauenfelder@shyarrawonga.catholic.edu.au
ebolton@shyarrawonga.catholic.edu.au