Year 2 News 

Reading

In this fortnight, Year 2 students have been focusing on making text-to-text connections and text-to-self connections with a selection of books from the library and classroom. Students read at level texts and explored how they relate to the text using the sentence starter “this text reminds me of”.

To make text-to-text connections students read books that reminded them of other books they had read before.

‘I like doing text to text connections.’ - Alana 2A

“I liked learning about similar books” Kaila 2B

Writing

Year 2 students have continued to engage in writing their narratives. They have been using their plans to draft their narratives and add details to make them more interesting. The Year 2 cohort has been attempting to include quotation marks in their narratives to show when characters are speaking. During the last fortnight students have continued to learn about conjunctions. They have been developing their understanding of using the conjunction ‘so’. Students can identify that the conjunction is used to show that one thing happens as a result of another.

‘I like doing my handwriting and writing in my book and it gets me entertained.’ - Justin 2A

‘Writing is so good, I like writing and my handwriting is getting better.’ - Ayliuo 2A

“ I am liking writing my own Narrative” Angie 2B

“I am enjoying working a s a class to write a class story called The Day the Texters came Alive” Aashrita 2B

Maths 

Over the past two weeks in Maths, our Year 2 students have been working hard with three-digit numbers. They have created their own three-digit numbers and modelled them using MAB blocks to show hundreds, tens and ones. Students practised writing their numbers in words and placing them correctly on a number line, identifying the number before and after. They also explored patterns by finding 10 less and 10 more than a given number. To strengthen their understanding of number order, students worked on finding the number in between two numbers and identifying the number that is exactly in the middle. It has been wonderful to see their confidence growing as they work with larger numbers!

‘When I do maths, I get really smart and it makes me happy and I get better.’- Christopher 2A

‘I love doing the numbers in between. I loved doing the thousands.’ - Alana 2A

‘I love doing my numbers in my maths books because it’s way harder. I have to concentrate and not get distracted by people.’ - Justin 2A

‘I like doing my maths because it gets me more smarter.’ - Ayliuo 2A

I love doing Maths” Shumail 2B

Inquiry

During the past fortnight, the Year 2 students have been exploring a variety of celebrations that families and communities participate in. Students wrote sentences about what their family celebrates and drew pictures to match their words. In another session students explored communities coming together during sporting events, particularly the Olympics. Year 2 students discovered that during the Olympics some people might celebrate the achievements of more than one community.

‘I liked doing my Inquiry paper because our paper goes on the wall and everyone gets to see it.’ - Justin 2A

‘I love doing our family drawing because everyone knows who we have in our family.’ - Alana 2A

‘I liked doing celebrations about Halloween, Christmas and Easter!’ - Armaan 2A

“ I have loved learning about different celebrations” Himmit 2B

“I enjoyed speaking about our lessons at Assembly” Ellie 2B

Social and Emotional Learning

Over the past two weeks in S.E.L., students have been learning about relaxation and how it helps our bodies and brains feel calm and ready to learn. 

They explored different ways to relax, such as deep breathing and taking quiet moments, and discussed how these strategies can help us when they feel worried, upset or overwhelmed. Students also revisited the importance of whole body listening, focusing on using our eyes, ears, hands, feet and heart to show respect and attention. Students reflected on why it is important to always try their best, even when learning feels challenging. It has been wonderful to see them practising these skills in the classroom each day.

“ I loved trying my best and practising my handwriting” Burak 2B

AUSLAN 

The past two weeks in Auslan, have seen our Year 2 students have been building their confidence with signing. They revisited the breakfast signs, practising how to sign different foods and remembering the correct hand shapes and movements. Students then extended their learning by exploring transport signs, including bus, train and helicopter. They enjoyed practising these new signs with partners.It has been fantastic to see their enthusiasm and growing fluency in Auslan.

“ We learnt about different types of transport” all of 2B

“We learned the Auslan sign for car, train, tram and plane.” - Hamad, 2C