Grade 2 iNewsletter

Updates & Reminders

Dear Parents,

Welcome to our fortnightly snapshot. Read to find out what's happening in our classrooms. 

Coming up we have transition mornings on Wednesday 18th November and Wednesday 25th November. Students will find out what Grade 3 is like on those mornings. 

A reminder that every Tuesday and Thursday are Nude Food days. We want to see as many students as possible bringing Nude Food! 

Writing

Students will be writing persuasive texts over the next two weeks.  They will learn how to write:

• a strong title
• an introduction which states their opinion
• reasons to support their opinion (including facts)
• a conclusion which restates their opinion

They will revisit persuasive language, compound sentences, adverbs and adjectives. 

Reading

In reading, students will be engaging with persuasive texts and information texts. They will be learning to differentiate facts vs opinions and will investigate how writers use facts to justify their opinions. 

The students will use information texts to practise skills in note-taking as they locate facts. They will also give their opinion on texts they read and learn how to respectfully agree or disagree with the opinions of others. 

We will continue discussing text genre such as fiction and non-fiction and how they can identify the texts genre according to it's features. For example, "I know this is fiction because it has characters, a setting and a plot" or "I know this is non-fiction because it has information, diagrams and sub-headings". 

Word Study

In word study students will be learning Rule 26, all about the use of capital letters for proper nouns. The next rule will be rule 18, which teaches about when to use ai/ay or oi/oy. 

Mathematics

After finishing our unit about fractions Grade 2 will begin learning about 2D and 3D shapes next week. Our learning intentions are:

• Describe and draw two-dimensional shapes
• Describe the features of three-dimensional objects such as the number of faces, corners or edges

Unit of Inquiry

We have begun our final unit of inquiry, 'Relationships exist between people and places.' We will be inquiring into: significant places, why some places change and others are preserved and how places meet the values of the community. Our provocations have involved looking at places in the school that can change or be preserved, identifying places that students have a personal connection to and finding out about Aboriginal Australian's connection to land. Next we will be gathering student questions to guide our inquiry. 

Wellbeing

Our learner profiles for our unit of inquiry are principled, reflective and caring. We will have class conversations about showing these learner profiles in daily life. 

The Grade Two Team

2A - Angie Fifer

2B- Angela Alderuccio

2C- Elise Newnham

2D - Breallen Cole

HU - Christie Walsh