Year 2 News

From Risa Hammel, Year 2E teacher

All around the world.

We have had a busy couple weeks getting back into the swing of things for our final term. 

English

We have spent some time practicing our conjunctions, sentence structure, and pronouns. We have looked specifically at the conjunctions of after, before, and, when, but, and because. We have used these to combine two parts of sentences or create more interesting expanded sentences. Our Year 2s have also looked at substituting pronouns in their writing, as well as synonyms. You can practice finding synonyms at home! How could we say “little” in a more exciting way? 

Writing

We have spent the week drafting a letter to a pen pal. After discussions about how kids lives and homes are different around the world, we decided we would tell others how we live. We used our conjunction, paragraph, noun phrase, and pronoun knowledge to craft our letters. We then edited and revised, and finally published our letters. Some of them will even actually be sent to different kids around the world!

Maths

We finished our unit on addition and subtraction, and have gotten into our multiplication unit. Using our inverse knowledge of our addition facts, we were able to solve tricky worded subtraction problems. We always show our thinking, through strategies like bar models, and number lines, partitioning, or counting on to solve. 

In multiplication we have used arrays to show our skip counting and multiplication thinking. We revisited our 0, 1, 2, and 10 multiplication facts, and then used that knowledge to work on our 4 and 5 multiplication facts. We continue to represent our multiplication in multiple ways, such as arrays, pictures, and number sentences. We continue to encourage families to practice their multiplication regularly at home to enable fluent recall.

Wellbeing

We have been studying empathy in wellbeing. This includes putting yourself into others shoes and seeing things from different perspectives. We also had our Junior Sports Day Friday Week 2, in which we showed our house spirit and cheered for our classmates. It was amazing to see all our Year 2s get into the spirit and celebrate each other’s wins!