Grade 2 News
Welcome to our latest Year Level Newsletter. It’s hard to believe we are already fast approaching the school holidays, with the term moving along quickly. It has been wonderful to see how well students have settled into classroom routines and engaged positively with their learning.
Students have continued to work hard across all learning areas, showing growing confidence, independence and enthusiasm. It has been pleasing to see the effort they are putting into their learning as the term progresses.
Thank you to families who attended the recent Parent–Teacher meetings. These were valuable conversations and provided a great opportunity to discuss student progress. Your support and partnership in your child’s learning is greatly appreciated.
What We’ve Been Learning in Grade 2:
Maths: Students have continued to explore place value, strengthening their knowledge and understanding by recognising that numbers can be represented in different ways. They are becoming more aware of the patterns that exist and how these can help them determine missing numbers. Learning has also focused on locating and ordering numbers on a number line, and using partitioning as a strategy for addition.
English: Students explored the sounds /igh/, /oa/, /oo/ and /or/, developing their reading and spelling of words with these patterns. They read and discussed fairytales and tall tales, comparing the similarities and differences between these text types and are beginning to innovate on familiar story structures. Students also learnt about plurals in morphology, and in syntax focused on sentence expansion, using adverbs, and identifying nouns and adjectives to add detail to their writing.
Humanities: Students concluded their first unit on Cycles in Nature, where they explored different plant, animal and Earth cycles, such as day and night and the changing seasons. They have now begun their next unit of learning, focusing on the geography of Australia.
Important Dates & Reminders:
- Thursday 2nd April: Last Day Term 1- 1.00pm finish
- Monday 20th April: Term 2 begins
- Reader Satchels: Don’t forget to send your child’s reader satchel to school daily to encourage consistent reading practice. Please sign the diary each night you read.
- Hats: As the weather warms up, please ensure your child brings a hat to school each day to stay sun-safe.
- We look forward to a strong finish to the term and wish everyone a restful holiday break. We can’t wait to see the students continue their learning in Term 2.
Warm regards,
The Grade 2 Team-
Miss Amin, Miss Goodall, Miss West & Mrs Robinson, Mrs Turner and Mr N