Year 2, Term 3, 2022

Welcome to Term 3! We have an interesting term ahead with many exciting activities and events planned to engage and stimulate our learning.

Literacy

Literacy

We will continue to use the Daily 5 framework when completing our literacy activities. The 5 elements include:

1. Read to self.

2. Read to someone.

3. Listen to reading.

4. Word work.

5. Work on writing

Spelling

This term we are continuing with our SMART spelling approach. SMART Spelling is based around whole words with an emphasis on meaning and vocabulary development. Students must be able to read their spelling words, understand what they mean and how to use them. The students complete daily word work activities using their chosen weekly spelling words and then complete dictation and a weekly spelling test on a Friday.

Writing

This term our main focus for writing will be Information Reports. The students will learn how to set out an information report with a clear heading and subheadings. The students will also learn about using facts rather than opinions in their information reports, specific language and word choice and how to draw a labelled diagram.

The students will continue to focus on narrative writing weekly during our literacy rotations with the emphasis being on punctuation, bold beginnings, mighty middles and excellent endings.

Students will be exposed to the qualities which make for good writing through the Writing Traits.

These are:

Ideas - the main message.
Organisation - the internal structure of the piece.
Voice - the personal tone and flavour of the author's message.
Word Choice - the vocabulary a writer chooses to convey meaning.
Sentence Fluency - the rhythm and flow of the language.
Conventions - the mechanical correctness of writing which includes basic punctuation skills such as capital letters, full stops, exclamation marks and question marks.

Reading

During this term we will continue to focus on various reading strategies from the Literacy CAFÉ system to improve and enhance the student’s reading. The strategies will fall into one of four categories of Comprehensions, Accuracy, Fluency or Expand Vocabulary. The students will focus on improving their expression and fluency through reading ‘Good Fit’ books.

Grammar

The students will work on developing their editing skills. We will be revising the use of punctuation, including full stops, commas, speech marks, exclamation marks and capital letters. We will also continue to revise, adjectives, nouns and verbs and introduce synonyms and antonyms through a variety of games and activities.

Numeracy

We are looking forward to another busy and fun term in Numeracy as we continue to develop the student’s skills in Number knowledge. We will be continue with the ‘The Math Daily 3’ of Math by myself, Math with someone and Math writing. We will be building on our knowledge by utilising various concrete materials and manipulatives to reinforce learning and clarify the student’s understanding of the concepts through practical real life experiences.

Number Fluency

Prior to commencing our Maths lessons the students have continued to practise their maths fluency and number facts by engaging in a variety of activities where they are required to share their reasoning and strategies. We will continue with prompts where the children are presented with a problem/activity and then have to apply different strategies to try and solve it.

Number and Algebra

During Term 3 the students will continue to focus on all areas of number, particularly multiplication as repeated addition, groups and arrays. The students will learn to recognise and represent division as sharing and grouping into equal sets and solve simple problems using these representations.

Measurement and Geometry

During our applied Maths sessions we will be comparing and ordering shapes and objects based on length, capacity and mass by using a range of appropriate informal and formal units. We will be discussing the language and tools used for each of these areas of measurement eg for length we can use rulers, measuring tapes etc and the units we measure in are centimetres, metres and kilometres.

The students will be further developing their logical thinking skills through working on their understanding that objects can be moved however changing position does not alter an objects size or features. They will work on investigating the effect of flipping, sliding or turning objects and shapes. The students will be given opportunities to predict and reproduce patterns using half and quarter turns of different shapes.

Units of Inquiry

SHARING THE PLANET

Living things go through a process of change.

Lines of Inquiry:

Recognising common features of minibeasts
Life cycles
How living things change over their life time
The relationship between living things

This term students will be introduced to many minibeasts and their life cycles, features and behaviours. They will observe, draw and make predictions about a mystery minibeast as it changes forms. They will observe bees, crabs, spiders, moths, and ladybirds and how they survive and help the environment. The students will then create a poster on their chosen minibeast to present to the class.

Speaking & Listening

This Term, we are focusing on listening carefully and with respect when teachers and other students are speaking. As part of our Unit of Inquiry 'Sharing the Planet', the students will be preparing a poster and oral presentation at school as one of their Learning Tasks.

Whole-school Focus on the PYP Learner Profile

July: Risk-takers

August: Balanced

September: - Open-minded

The Resilience Project

This term for the Resilience Project we will be learning to show empathy and asking children to identify how they might feel in someone else’s shoes. We will also be looking at mindfulness and how we can be mindful during our daily lives. Gratitude will continue to be a focus throughout the term.

Cyber Safety

This term we will continue to learn about how to stay safe online. Some of the concepts we will explore include how to make good choices when we are faced with challenging digital scenarios and how to support others online. The students have thoroughly enjoyed our Cyber Safety lessons so far this year.

Special Events

IMAX and museum excursion – Tuesday 2 August
School Disco- Friday 5 August
Curriculum Day- Monday August
Student Led Conferences - Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 August.
Japanese Incursion- Thursday 11 August
Book Fair- Friday 2 September to Friday 9 September
Father's Day Stall - Friday 2 September
Last Day of Term 3 - Friday 16 September (early dismissal at 2.30pm)

Beaumaris North PS

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