Year 2 

 Welcome to Term 4.

Literacy

This term, our literacy learning will be linked to our Science topic of Earth and Space, using the wonderful picture book The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers as our mentor text. Students will explore the story’s characters, setting and events while developing their reading comprehension, vocabulary and ability to make predictions and inferences. We will use the text as inspiration for our own imaginative writing, focusing on creating interesting characters, describing settings and writing engaging narratives with a clear beginning, middle and end. Students will also develop their understanding of sentence structure, punctuation and descriptive language as they bring their own space adventures to life!

Numeracy:

Over the first three weeks of this term, our Numeracy focus has been on developing our understanding of fractions and division. Students have been exploring how to divide objects and collections into equal groups, sharing fairly and recognising that fractions represent equal parts of a whole. We have drawn inspiration from Graeme Base’s picture book The Waterhole to explore these concepts in a meaningful, real-world context. Through hands-on activities, drawings and problem-solving tasks, students have been developing their mathematical thinking and learning to explain how they know groups are equal.

Science: Earth and Space!

Students have been identifying Earth within our solar system and exploring the unique properties of the other planets. We were excited to welcome Cosmodome to our school, where students enjoyed an immersive planetarium experience. They had the opportunity to observe the stars and planets and learn more about how celestial objects move through space. This engaging experience sparked curiosity, encouraged questions and helped bring our learning about the wonders of our solar system to life!