YEAR TWO
Grade Bulletin - Term Two, 2023
Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Primary School provides a range of holistic learning experiences to enable students to:
- Participate in the life and mission of the school.
- Deepen their knowledge and engagement with the Catholic faith and tradition.
- Build capacity to continuously reason, reflectively, logically and critically.
- Embrace interdependence of human existence as global citizens, who are responsible to and for themselves and others.
- Engage in learning in a multitude of ways, through personalised and self-paced learning.
Religious Education
2.3 The Easter Season
This unit is about Easter. After recalling the resurrection story, it explores light as a symbol in the Easter Vigil. The unit also highlights the place of Baptism in the Easter Vigil. In recalling Pentecost, the unit explores the presence of the Holy Spirit.
2:4 Signs of God’s Love
The Church’s year is marked by seasons that celebrate the mystery of God revealed in Jesus Christ. Students will explore the seasons of the Church’s year.
English
This term Year 2 students will be exploring the structure and language features of information reports. They will explore the texts; ‘My Grandad Marches on ANZAC Day’ by Catriona Hoy and Benjamin Johnson, ‘Anemone is not the Enemy’ by Anna McGregor ‘Platypus’ by Sue Whiting and ‘Great White Shark’ by Claire Saxby. Through these texts the students will be taught explicit skills in relation to informative texts, and will continue to learn about the importance of characterisation, context and representation.
The children will also continue the Soundwaves spelling program. They will complete weekly activities which include brainstorming, segmenting sounds, dictionary meanings, alphabetical order, spelling rules and rhyming activities.
You can assist your child by:
- Listening to them read nightly and asking them to retell what they have read in their own words. This is essential for comprehension. Also asking some literal and inferential questions about the text to ensure they have understood what they have read.
- Checking their spelling words during homework and visiting Soundwaves online to play games.
Mathematics
The students will be explicitly taught concepts from the NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus with a focus on problem solving, communication, reasoning and understanding. All activities are differentiated in order to cater to all student needs and ability.
The topics taught in Term 2 are: Statistics and Probability (Data), Non-spatial (Mass), Combining and Separating Quantities (Addition and Subtraction), Representing Whole Number, Geometric Measure and Position.
You can assist your child by:
- Revising counting skills (e.g. forward and backward by tens on and off the decade ie. 267, 277, 287, 297, 307, counting forward or backward by 100’s)
- Encouraging them to solve simple addition and subtraction problems involving one- and two-digit numbers using a range of efficient mental and written strategies including the jump strategy and split strategy.
- Providing opportunities to describe and draw two-dimensional shapes, with and without the use of digital technologies
Science and Technology
In Term Two, students will continue the unit on Earth and Space. They will observe changes in the sky and landscape as well as explore how the Earth’s resources are used. Students will also investigate how digital systems display data.
Mandarin
This term students in Kindergarten to Year 6 will continue to participate in the Chinese language program called the Meg Language Program. The Meg Curriculum is written by the co-author of the Australian Curriculum. All students and teachers will participate in the digital learning platform via Zoom weekly sessions with educators in China.
Geography
In Geography lessons, the students will continue exploring places within Australia and Australia’s location in the world. They will describe the connections people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, have with places, both locally and globally. The students will also identify factors affecting people’s accessibility to places.
Amadeus Music Program
Students will continue their participation in the Amadeus Music Education program, introduced by Sydney Catholic Schools providing students with a high quality music education program. The program offers students expert classroom music lessons, ensemble lessons, and for primary students group tuition.
Students will participate in activities in listening, performing and organising sound (Kindergarten to Year 6), within their regular Classroom Music lessons. Within these lessons, students will:
- Sing in unison and in parts
- Play tuned and untuned percussion instruments
- Play available instruments such as Ukulele, Guitar and Keyboard (Grade appropriate)
Creative Arts
The Visual arts program this term will be integrated with our English texts as well as our Geography unit. The students will use paints, pastels and drawing materials to explore and create various artworks, landscapes and portraits. Year 2 will also engage in artworks inspired by ‘The Sea” in preparation for our excursion to the Aquarium.
Personal Development, Health and Physical Education
The Stage 1 PDHPE unit is aimed at providing opportunities for students to develop their skills and build confidence in Fundamental Movement Skills. Students will practise and apply these skills through activities and traditional games. In addition, students will be given the opportunity to engage in skill development with the De La Salle PASS students.
In our Open Parachute lessons, students will be exploring the concepts of Friendship Challenges, Making Safe Choices & the importance of Being Brave.
Homework
It is recommended that Year 2 students spend up to a duration of 20-30 minutes of homework per day. This includes 10 minutes of reading every night. Homework consists of daily reading, spelling and Mathematics activities. These activities are to be completed weekly. Homework is due each Thursday and will be sent home every Friday.
Please record and sign your child’s daily reading on the appropriate page in their reading log. It is very important that your child is reading aloud each night to ensure they are fluent, expressive and self monitoring. Asking comprehension questions at the end is also essential. Year 2 has access to Wushka Readers Online which includes comprehension questions on each book. Please refer to their password sheet for login information.
We look forward to continuing to work with you and your child this term. If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher via email, a written note or by an appointment through the office.
Thank you for your partnership and support.
We are looking forward to a productive year!
2B - Mrs Katrina Hedges
2G - Mrs Lauren Govers
2W - Mrs Alison Bofinger
Important Dates for Year 2
Year 2 will participate in sports and fitness lessons every Wednesday and Friday
Year 2 will participate in Library and Music lessons every Friday
School Photos
Wednesday May 3rd 2023 - Students are to wear full winter uniform
School Term - 26th April - 30 June 2023