Grade 2 Fortnightly Snapshot

Welcome

Dear Parents,

Welcome back to school! It has been a busy couple of weeks and we have loved catching up with the students and are glad to have our regular routines back. 

We have also spent time celebrating all the learning students did during the home learning period with a mini exhibition. The students we very proud of 

Reading

We are learning about persuasive texts in both reading and writing. This week we have been identifying nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in our reading materials. We are noticing how they make sentences more vivid. We will be analysing persuasive techniques found in advertisements next week.

Writing

We have been learning about nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. In particular, we are learning that these can be used to strengthen our sentences and make these more descriptive. We will be learning how to incorporate these into our persuasive writing to make our opinions sound stronger. Next week will be incorporating these into advertisements, along with other persuasive tools, such as bold text and images that appeal to the emotions.

We will chose a topic and form an opinion on it then write a topic sentence to state our point of view, reasons and summing up sentence. We will be revising, editing and publishing our texts with the view to use more powerful adjectives and adverbs, and phrases. 

Maths

Unit of Inquiry

We have started our How We Organise Ourselves unit of inquiry, 'Critical thinking supports informed choices.' We are inquiring into the forms of persuasion, how we are influenced and how to be a critical consumer. We have commenced the unit with some provocations about choices, reasoning and persuasive strategies. We will be making close links with literacy by analysing advertisements and persuasive texts. We would all students to keep an eye out for advertisements, branding and logos and to bring in some examples of these for our Artefact Tables. 

Word study

We are continuing to learn about our rule that c and g followed by e, i or y make their second sounds, but g MAY make its first sound too. We are taking the time to set up our classroom routines and develop the skills needed to learn our later rules. It is important that studnets have the building blocks so that they can apply the rules to more difficult words in the future.