Grade 2

Reminders And Dates For Grade 2 Students

Wednesday 23rd October - Geelong Cup Day 

Monday 4th November - Curriculum Day

Monday 2nd December - EcoLink - Paper Making Incursion

Friday 6th December - EcoLink - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Excursion

Week 10: Grade 2 Swimming

LITERACY:

Reading: During the next 5 weeks students will be learning new extended code (letter-sound correspondence) in Sounds-Write. They will apply this knowledge to further develop their fluency by reading aloud to a partner and with the class. Students will learn to ask questions and infer rich texts linked to our Inquiry unit Caring & Sharing. 

Writing: During the next 5 weeks students will be learning about the language and devices required to develop their own persuasive text. In their explicit syntax and grammar lessons, they will learn to define subjects and predicates and identify within clauses and complete sentences when provided with a sentence stem containing a subordinate conjunction (before, after, if, when, although, even though). In handwriting, they will continue to focus on correct letter formation and handwriting fluency.

Speaking and Listening: During the next 5 weeks students will discuss how to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit their audience and purpose and apply this knowledge to their persuasive writing text.

NUMERACY:

Number & Algebra: During the next 5 weeks students will be revising strategies to complete the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication & division), including solving multi-step worded problems.

Measurement & Geometry: During the next 5 weeks students will be learning to tell time to the quarter-hour, using the language of 'past' and 'to'. Extension opportunities will be provided for students who are ready to learn to tell the time to the minute and investigate the relationship between units of time. ie. 1 hour = 60 minutes

Statistics & Probability: During the next 5 weeks students will be learning to create and interpret maps, including locating key features on maps and giving and receiving directions from one point to another.

INQUIRY: 

During the next 5 weeks students will start their Inquiry Unit on Caring & Sharing. They will learn about how to minimise their environmental footprint by recycling and reducing their consumption. 

SPECIALISTS:

Physical Education: To begin Term 4, Year Two students will take part in Gymnastics and also work on linked movement sequences through dance.

Art: This term's initial focus will be on printmaking, along with an exploration of mid to late twentieth-century artists, including Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Bridget Riley.

S.T.E.M:  Over Term Four students will be out in the garden learning about companion planting. They will take part in planting and caring for tomatoes, basil and calendula. Students will also be introduced to a variety of coding and technology activities including coding robots, circuit kits and online coding.

Music: During Term 4 the Prep students will continue learning about how to sing in tune, accurately play a rhythm during a song, how to move in response to different music and to describe music that they hear and/or play.  Students will be learning some new songs with accompanying games and songs learnt earlier in the year will be revisited. 

School Wide Positive Behaviour & Wellbeing: 

Over the next five weeks Grade 2 students will be will be learning about and practising the Character Strengths of Persistence, Curiosity, Creativity and Forgiveness. 

They will be learning about Respectful Relationships and positive self-talk. 

Routines and Behaviours will be explicitly taught and practised. For example, this week the focus was on 'Transitioning Calmly and Quietly' .