Grade 2 News
What’s Happening in Grade 2
Welcome to 2025!
We’re off to a fantastic start this year, with students settling into their new routines and learning classroom procedures. They’ve been engaged in exciting and meaningful learning experiences, discovering new skills and concepts along the way.
Grade 2 is a year full of growth, independence, and fun! Our focus is on building confidence, encouraging students to challenge themselves, and supporting them as they take risks in their learning. If you have any questions throughout the year, please don’t hesitate to reach out to your child’s classroom teacher—we’re here to help!
We’re looking forward to a wonderful year ahead!
Take Home Readers
Take-home books have gone home with students! These books are designed to be easy and enjoyable reads to help your child build fluency, accuracy, and confidence when reading aloud.
We kindly ask that you record one book per night in your child’s diary, noting the date and book title. Book satchels should be brought to school every day to keep up with the reading routine.
We encourage families to aim for five nights of reading per week, with each session lasting around 10 minutes. If your child is feeling tired, try sharing the reading—taking turns line by line or page by page can make it a fun and supportive experience!
Thank you for your support in encouraging a love of reading! 📚😊
In Reading and Phonics students have been:
- Explicitly taught spellings for words containing /ow/, /igh/, /or/ and /ee/ sounds as well as other long vowel sounds, /a/ and /oo/
- Learning how to make a reasonable choice for spelling words that include these sounds through identifying different spelling patterns within the English language.
- Developing their abilities to comprehend different types of Fiction and Non-Fiction texts.
- Building their fluency by using reading decodable passages connected to the sounds we have learnt.
- Participating in a daily review to help strengthen their previous knowledge and enhancing recall of the spelling rules/ sounds they have learnt.
In Literature / Knowledge students have been:
- Developing their vocabulary and comprehension skills
- Understanding how the sun impacts the earth through our unit ‘Cycles of Nature’
- Learning about the children’s story ‘Go Go and the Silver Shoes’.
In Writing students have been:
- Identifying sentence types: statements, questions, commands, exclamations.
- Identifying and defining proper and common nouns and capitalising proper nouns.
- Editing sentences for boundary punctuation (full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, capital for proper nouns & at the beginning of sentences).
- Practising their letter formations in Victorian Cursive font with a focus on achieving legible writing using the dotted thirds.
In Mathematics students have been:
- Comparing, ordering, counting, making, naming and recording 2-digit numbers, using materials such as place value charts and base ten blocks.
- Adding 2 digit numbers using the split and bridging to 10 strategies
- Participating in a daily review to help strengthen their previous knowledge and enhancing recall of their number knowledge.
Most recently the Grade 2’s had the opportunity to participate in a Football Clinic, with players from the North Melbourne Football Club!
