Year Two News

Term 3 in Grade 2

A warm welcome back for Term 3 to all Grade Two families. We hope you have enjoyed the break. Students are well and truly settling into the second Semester and have a range of exciting and engaging learning opportunities upcoming. We would like to share with you some of the learnings Grade Two will embark on throughout Term 3. 

Literacy

Grade Two will continue the focus on the Little Learners Love Literacy Program, ensuring that students solidify their knowledge of long vowel sounds, alternative spelling patterns of sounds, suffixes and commonly used spelling rules. Students will learn reading comprehension techniques and differences in responding to comprehension questions. We encourage all students to practise these skills on a nightly basis when completing their home reading. During writing sessions, students will engage with mentor texts as they continue to develop their skills in structuring sentences, understanding statements and questions, adding conjunctions to writing pieces and revising and editing written pieces. Links will be made between these skills and the exploration of persuasive writing as a genre.

Numeracy

This term, students will be learning about multiplication and division. A mixture of concrete and representational materials will assist students in understanding key strategies of this topic. Students will use vocabulary like groups of, repeated addition and repeated subtraction to understand the fundamental strategies of   multiplication and division. Grade Two students will also focus on concepts of length and area. Using concrete materials, alongside ICT resources, students will be offered opportunities to understand informal and formal methods whilst measuring objects. Throughout the term, students will apply skills in collecting and recording data on a range of topics. They will understand appropriate ways to represent their data using graphs such as column, bar, picture and pie graphs. Students will be challenged with a daily revision of prior learning activities that will reinforce key mathematical topics. 

Geography

As part of the topic ‘Who are we?’ Grade Two students will understand the term ‘place’ and its meaning on a local, national and global scale. Students visited the Royal Botanic Gardens where they learnt about the special connections between place and the people of the Kulin nation. They participated in activities to understand how local flora and fauna was utilised. Throughout the topic, students will engage in activities that will assist them in distinguishing what is familiar and different in the ways culturally diverse individuals and families live. 

Respectful Relationships

Students will continue to focus on building problem solving skills throughout Term 3. They will work through real-life scenarios to allow positive strategies to be discussed as a class. Consent education will also be explored throughout the term. The Zones of Regulation will continue to assist students in displaying their emotional status and offer an opportunity to remind themselves of discussed strategies to care for personal wellbeing. 

We look forward to working with all students and families throughout Term 3.

Kind regards,

Caitlin, Dan, Maria and Troy