Year 2 Mainstream 

Celebrating Learning

We had a wonderful local History walk to Pender’s Park. Students drew maps of their journey and then wrote a recount. Students are also considering the two walks and their connection to any prominent landmarks. After choosing one that inspires them, they have researched and written an information report about it.  Each class is now in the process of using this landmark to create an image to add to the class mural about their journey.

Maths

In Maths, the focus is turning to place value and students connecting number names, numerals and quantities. Students will be making, drawing and ordering numbers to at least 120.  They will explore place value by playing games where the value of a number is determined by its position in that number. This may be a game you could ask you little people about and play at home.

Maps have continued to be a reference in our integrated unit, but we have moved on to time and reading analogue and digital clocks.

Literacy:

Our excursions have provided us with some excellent inspiration for writing. We have developed our recount plans and drafts! We will continue to develop our planning, drafting, revising and editing skills over the next few weeks. Students continue to develop their decoding and encoding skills in our phonics sessions along with their reading fluency through partnered reading. Phonics sessions will progress through stage 5, 6 and 7.1.

What’s to come in the next two weeks:

Students continue to unpack place value by ordering and representing bigger numbers (to at least 1000). They start applying their knowledge of place value to partition, rearrange and rename two- and three-digit numbers, and regroup these to assist in calculations. Students are also looking at time, including ordering events from shortest to longest time and telling time on an analogue clock to the hour and half hour.

In week 7 and 8  groups will start on stage 7.1 sounds: ee (seed), ea (beach ) and y (unhappy), igh (high), ie (pie) and -y (sky) and stage 6 sounds: tch, th and ng. 

Students were introduced to homophones (words that sound the same, but have different spellings and meanings) such as ee as in meet and ea as in meat. To reinforce their learning, students could be practising reading at home with their take home readers. Students who are reading other books should also be encouraged to record this reading in their reading diary.