Year 2 Term 3 Overviews
Wominjeka Year 2 Families!
Term 3 Curriculum:
Reading:
This term in reading, Year 2 students will make connections, compare and contrast texts of the same genre and text types including nonfiction and fiction texts. While reading, students will solve words using their growing phonemic and morphemic knowledge and they will re-read a word or a phrase to self monitor their reading. Students will use organisational tools and text resources such as titles, chapter titles, glossaries, tables of contents, captions, and labels to support their understanding of the text. They will identify and summarise the important information in nonfiction and fiction texts. When reading and discussing texts, students will take evidence from multiple sources to make inferences. Students will talk about what the reader knows about the topic before reading the text, and identify new knowledge gained from reading.
Writing:
This term in Writing, Year 2 students will be exploring information report writing while continuing to develop their understanding and application of procedural texts.
Students will use a range of literacy techniques, including precise word choice, descriptive language, interesting vocabulary, and labelled graphics to engage their readers. They will also use topic-specific vocabulary and be introduced to organising information into categories.
Throughout this unit, students will continue to develop well-crafted sentences by using a combination of simple and compound sentences. They will also further explore the use of paragraphs and a variety of punctuation, including full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, and commas. In addition, students will practise spelling words containing familiar digraphs and writing one- and two-syllable words with consonant blends.
Mathematics:
This term in Maths, Year 2 students will learn how to read simple maps and follow directions to navigate pathways around familiar spaces. They will also learn how to collect, record and understand information using lists, tables and digital graphs. Students will build their skills with time by using calendars to work out how many days are between events, and they will practise reading an analogue clock to the hour, half-hour and quarter-hour.
Students will also extend their knowledge of numbers up to 1,000. They will explore the value of hundreds, tens and ones, and practise breaking larger numbers apart and putting them back together in different ways. They will investigate forward and backward number patterns, skip-counting by 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s from any starting point. Finally, students will use pictures, objects and other models to help solve practical addition, subtraction and multiplication problems in everyday situations, including money transactions. They will focus on remembering addition and subtraction facts to 20 and creating number sentences to show their problem-solving.
Inquiry:
This term in inquiry, year 2 students will be inquiring into change and how it occurs in different time frames which is caused by different factors. Students will be exploring long term and short term change ( physical & chemical) and changes of state (solids, liquids and gas). They will also be investigating how materials can be physically changed or combined with other materials in a variety ways for a particular purpose (e.g eggs making a cake or milk/butter/cream. To explore these changes, students will participate in a range of experiments and focus on the scientific process of creating a question, hypothesising and collecting evidence through observation to prove or disprove their hypothesis.
Social Emotional Learning:
This term in SEL, Year 2 students will develop an awareness of positive and negative gender norms. Students will understand that they can play and learn with people from different social groups or backgrounds. They will practice respectful and gender friendly behaviours, and recognise behaviours that are hurtful and unfair based on ideas about what it means to be a boy or a girl, e.g. excluding someone because they are a boy, hurting someone because they are a girl. Students will describe situations and behaviours that are ok and not ok and show compassion towards others through their actions. Lastly, they will learn to develop an appreciation of difference and understand that it is ok to be different to others.
Phonics:
This term in Phonics, students will continue to build their phonics skills by recognising graphemes (the letters that represent a sound). They will practice reading, spelling and writing words using flashcards, whiteboards and sentence activities. We will also continue to learn high-frequency words to build reading fluency. Families can help by reading together and practising these common words at home. Students will continue to learn about morphology, which means understanding how parts of words change their meaning. For example, -ed shows something that happened in the past (I walked to school.) and -s can mean more than one (flowers).
Important Events:
This term is an exciting one for our Grade 2 students! Our Grade 2 Sleepover will take place on:
- 20th August: 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D
- 27th August: 2E, 2F, 2G and 2H
Once we have confirmed final numbers, we will send home more information about what your child will need to bring and what to expect on the night. We encourage as many students as possible to attend, as the sleepover is a wonderful opportunity to build independence, confidence and lasting memories with their classmates.
Towards the end of the term, Grade 2 students will also participate in Swim Week. More information about this program will be shared soon.
With so many exciting opportunities to build independence this term, you can help at home by encouraging your child to practise getting dressed independently (including shoes and socks) and packing their own sleeping bag. These simple tasks will help them feel more confident and prepared for these special events (and might even make your mornings a little easier too!).
Nightly Reading:
It is important for your child to continue reading every night. Reading for just 10-15 minutes each day can make a big difference to your child's learning. Regular reading helps build fluency, vocabulary, comprehension and confidence. After reading, spend a few minutes talking about the story by asking questions such as, "Who was your favourite character?", "What happened first?" or "What do you think will happen next?" Families are encouraged to read and talk about books in the language they speak at home. Building strong language skills in any language supports children's learning and literacy development.
Once your child has done their daily reading, please include this in their yellow Reading Journal. These are checked weekly by the teacher and all reading achievements are celebrated.