Year 2 News 

Reading

In the last fortnight, the Year 2 students have been learning about how to make predictions for a nonfiction text. They have been looking at clues including the title, the front cover and the contents page to make a good guess for what the text will be about. 

The students have also been learning about text to self connections. They have been reading fiction texts and thinking about what it reminds them of in their own lives. The students read a book about a scaredy monster learning to swim and how it reminded some students of their first time swimming, or when they have felt nervous about going into the deep end. 

“I used the front cover to tell what the book is about.” - Helena 2A

“I liked to share my ideas of my predictions.” - Jordan 2B

“I enjoyed making a guess.” - Marwan 2B

“Scaredy monster reminded me of going swimming and it was a new level, I needed a bit of help in swimming because the water was deep but I did it.” - Hafsa, 2C

Writing

Year 2 students have been engaged in writing narratives. First, they identified the features of a narrative, and next, they created a character and developed their personal and physical traits. Once the students completed that, they created a setting and chose adjectives to describe their settings.

During the past fortnight, they have been eagerly learning about simple sentences and how to create compound sentences using conjunctions. Students have been practising creating compound sentences on mini whiteboards. So far, they have focused on the conjunctions ‘and’ and ‘but’.

Once every week, Year 2 students engage in handwriting lessons. During these lessons, students practise correct letter formation and letter placement on dotted thirds.

“I liked practicing my handwriting.” - Aashrita 2B

“I enjoyed using the big books to sort them into Fiction and Non-Fiction.” - Pita 2B

“I enjoyed making up a character.” - Himmat 2B

Maths 

Over the past 2 weeks, in Maths, students have been exploring place value by building 3-digit numbers using MAB materials and then representing their models through drawings. They practised placing numbers on a number line up to 1000 to strengthen their understanding of number order and size. Students also completed a Thinkboard task to demonstrate their understanding of place value in multiple ways, including showing hundreds, tens and ones, writing numbers in different forms, and explaining their thinking.

“I made a number by rolling the dice and then drawing it in my book.” - Stela 2A

“Writing numbers in words is tricky.” - Harbaaz 2B

Inquiry

In the last fortnight, students have been diving deeper into their identities. Students have been exploring their cultural backgrounds and sharing the languages spoken within their families. The Year 2 students have shared if they have relatives living overseas and enjoyed mapping their cultural background on a world map. They discovered that they are part of a culturally diverse class. 

“Looking at the countries we come from was exciting.” -  Marwan 2B

Social and Emotional Learning

In S.E.L, this fortnight, Year 2 students have been learning about stress; what it is, what can cause it, and how it can feel in our bodies. They explored positive strategies to manage stress and discussed ways they can support both themselves and others during challenging moments. Students also focused on how their actions can impact others and the feelings those actions may create. A key area of learning has been the importance of keeping our hands and feet to ourselves and understanding why this helps everyone feel safe and respected.

“We can make people upset if we push them.” - Asenat 2B

“Keeping our hands to ourselves will stop us from annoying anyone or making them angry.” - Baani, 2C

AUSLAN 

This fortnight, Year 2 students have been revising how to sign the Alphabet with confidence and learning how to sign different breakfast foods such as cereal, toast and Vegemite! Students will continue to engage and build their confidence in Auslan over the remainder of the term.

“I can sign my name.” - Ayliuo 2A

“I signed cereal with my hands, it was easy for me.” - Leo 2A

“I can sign toast and butter, people sometimes eat it for breakfast!” - Ava 2A

“Learning about breakfast signs was fun”- Pita  2B

Special Event

Schools Clean Up Australia Day

Last Friday, the Year 2 students participated in the annual CPS School Clean Up Australia Day by cleaning up the yard. Each class helped to keep our school and environment free of rubbish. Students learnt and discussed the importance of keeping our school clean.

“We used gloves and we picked up rubbish together”- Justin 2A

“We all enjoyed cleaning up the school.” - Burak  2B

“I used my own bin to collect as much rubbish as possible.” - Hussain 2C