Grade 2

Welcome to week 4!!

Important Dates

Curriculum Day (no school) – 6th of November

Melbourne Cup Day (no school) – 7th of November

Swimming Program - Wed 8th, Thur 9th, Fri 10th, Tue 14th, Wed 15th of November

·        The grade 2’s are participating in the first swimming program for Grayling Primary. We will be getting on a bus and going to Splash Swimming School in Clyde North. We ask parents to please LABEL all items of clothing! If you require further information, please see Compass.

Funtopia excursion – 30th of November

·        To celebrate our students’ achievements this year, we have organised an end of year excursion to Funtopia in Carrum Downs. Students will be able to participate in all of the activities at Funtopia, including rock climbing, jumping, sliding and crawling.

Christmas concert – 14th of December

Last day of school – 18th of December

Reading

This week the students are finishing off looking at Narrative texts. They are continuing to develop their fluency with their fluency pairs. During lessons we focus on creating a large brainstorm using our reading comprehension skills such as predictions, author's purpose, and visualising. This week we looked at a book based on a space trip to lead us up to the Space Dome Incursion on Friday!

Writing

In writing we are again finishing off looking at Narrative texts. On Monday we focus on looking at a Narrative prompt and the students practise writing a full story in the lead up to next year. On Tuesday we looked at using conjunctions in our writing. Which allows students to expand out their sentences with words like ‘and’, ‘because’, ‘or’, and ‘but’.  For the rest of the week we focused on building up our Narrative knowledge. The students compared different settings, used their 5 senses to describe a setting then planned, drafted and published a narrative of their choice.

Maths

This week in maths we are looking at location and transformation. We started off the week by looking at positions and using directional language such as right, left, above, below, and under. We then moved onto how we flip, slide and turn different objects and ended the week by learning about clockwise and anticlockwise turns. The students spent the week moving around a lot during lessons and learning time in order to visualise the movements. We also used lots of hands-on activities and manipulatives to assist us. 

Celebrating Miss Thornton

On Monday all the students at Grayling went to the gym to celebrate Miss Thornton getting married. The grade 2’s had spent the last few weeks creating a beautiful wedding dress out of their hands as well as a book with all their marriage advice. The students and Miss Thornton had a fantastic time and we wish her all the best for her wedding on Saturday.