Year Two News

Term 2 in Grade 2

We are looking forward to welcoming back our Grade 2s and watching them pick up where they left off after Term 1. The Grade 2 team have been very impressed with the students’ abilities to apply the new school values of Responsibility, Resilience, Respect and Belonging within their classrooms and their wider learning environment. 

We have exciting opportunities for students to present their culinary skills with Orchard to Plate taking place in Term 2. Grade 2 classes will also participate in the class assembly presentations later this term. Teachers will notify parents/carers of their week at a later date. 

We look forward to welcoming our parent helpers into the classroom this term. Each teacher will be in touch shortly with those who expressed interest and have completed the inductions.

Numeracy

In Mathematics, through our Daily Review and explicit instruction, students will consolidate their knowledge of place value, with particular focus on renaming and partitioning 4-digit numbers. Addition and subtraction will be explored by using visual models such as the Bar model to assist students in their learning of the relationship between addition and subtraction. This will be accompanied by practising basic number facts to assist in problem solving challenging number problems. Students will explore grouping strategies with money to assist them in counting collections of coins. Time and fractions are a focus in Term 2, as students practise the use of fraction vocabulary as they practise telling the time to halves and quarters of the hour. Fractions are also explored through the use of varied shapes and collections. Length, mass, and capacity units of measurement are practised over the span of Term 2, with engaging activities where students can demonstrate their understanding of different measurement units by solving addition and subtraction equations. Measuring different objects throughout your home over Term 2 can assist students with consolidating their knowledge and help them understand how we use them in everyday life. 

Literacy

The Little Learners Love Literacy program will continue in Term 2. Our students are eager to begin new stages of the program. There will be a continued focus on decoding, fluency and comprehension. Through explicit instruction and daily practice, students will continue to develop their knowledge of well-formed sentences by learning new vocabulary, formatting techniques and adding detail to sentences by using adjectives and adverbs. Students will explore the genre of narratives in Term 2. They will learn to implement the 5 Ws (Who, What, Where, When, and Why) in sentences, understand the importance of beginning, middle and end structures in narratives, and practise effective writing processes by drafting, editing, revising, and publishing their work. The genre of procedural text writing will also be practised with the Grade 2s Unit of Work. Handwriting and spelling will continue to be a regular focus throughout Term 2. Students will also participate in paired reading activities regularly, where they will read aloud with partners using a well-known text to them to practise fluency in their reading. This will also provide students with opportunities to give feedback to their peers in a constructive and supportive environment. 

Units of Work

In Term Two, students will explore the topic of sound. We will explore the questions and answers to what sound is, how it is made, how we measure it, and how we utilise sound in life. Students will have an exciting opportunity to become their own music inventors as they create their own musical instrument in the unit. They will create a procedural text which can be presented to classmates based on their instrument. Students will also explore chemical sciences later in the term. They will understand the differences between solids, liquids and gases and how they may appear in objects we use.  

We look forward to another fantastic term ahead!

Kind regards,

The Grade Two Team