Dear parents and carers,

Thank you for your support with the sudden change to home learning this week. It did take us by surprise! At the very least it presents opportunities for the students to be flexible and resilient.

Please ensure your child has a book bag to protect the take home books they bring to and from school.

Reading

In reading, we continue to teach strategies to stay engaged in reading, such as keeping your mind in the book, being curious by asking questions as you read and keeping an open mind to trying new books. They will also know that when their mind in is the book it means they are engaged in the book.

We will also focus on genre. Students will begin to recognise that books can be classified according to genre, beginning with 'fiction' or 'non-fiction'.

Students will also learn to create their own reading goals.

They will also become more proficient in retelling a story. They will learn to include the setting and retell the important events.

Word Study

In word study, we will continue to practise using the reading and spelling tools and revising vowels and consonants.

The students will use the reading and spelling tools to practise the rule "qu". We call “q” a “sooky-la-la” because he won’t go anywhere without his buddy “u”.

It is important that the students continue to practise the codes. Click on this link to practise the codes at home.

Writing

In writing, we will continue to develop writing stamina. Like reading, there will be an emphasis on genre. Students will become more familiar with and begin to explore writing different genres of texts, with a focus on personal narrative.

Students will also be working towards setting up a writer’s station in the classroom. This station will allow students to have access to several resources and inspiration for drafting and publishing their own writing.

Numeracy

We will continue to focus on the same place value leaning intentions, as well as introducing the concept of expanding numbers. (i.e. 245=200+40+5)

Our learning intentions are:

To recognise, model, represent and order numbers to at least 1000
To group, rearrange and partition collections up to 1000 in hundreds, tens and ones

Our success criteria is:

I can read numbers to 1000
I can model and represent numbers to 1000
I can order numbers to 1000
I can group and rearrange collections of up to 1000
I can arrange hundred, tens and ones to make counting easier
I can expand numbers

Unit of Inquiry

Who We Are: Self-awareness promotes positive relationships.

The students will continue to develop the ability to identify and label emotions. They will explore the intensity of different emotions and learn to recognise the difference between a big problem and a little problem. We will plot these on a class catastrophe scale. The students will learn to use the Zones of Regulation, which is explained more below.

Well Being

As part of our unit of inquiry ‘Self-awareness promotes positive relationships’ we will introduce the students to the ‘Zones of Regulation’. This is a child friendly, easy to understand framework designed to foster self-regulation and emotion control. We would like students to recognise what ‘zone’ they are experiencing and use strategies to help them regulate their emotions.

Homework

Please check the Student Planner for the weekly homework.

from the Grade Two teachers:

2A Angie Fifer

2B Maddy Long

2C Breallen Cole

2D Angela Alderuccio

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