Level 2
Wow! What a busy start to the year!
We spent the first week setting up classroom routines, getting to know each other and creating a positive working environment.
Literacy
Reading
This term in Reading, Level 2 students are learning to make connections to text. They will explore how they can connect a text to themselves, to another text and experiences from the world around them. We will also be practising the skills of monitoring and self
correcting. This will enable students to recognise when they have misread a word or sentence that doesn't make sense and apply a self correct strategy. Students will learn how to sequence a text, retell the key events whilst summarising the important ideas from what the author has told them.
- Can you relate to the characters in the story?
- Does anything in this story remind you of anything in your own life?
- How is this text similar/different to other things you have read?
- How are events in this story similar/different to things that happen in the real world?
Weekly focus:
Week 1: Positive Start Program
Week 2: Making connections and monitoring and self correcting
Week 3: Making connections and monitoring and self correcting
Week 4: Making connections and monitoring and self correcting
Week 5: Making connections and monitoring and self correcting
Week 6: Making connections and monitoring and self correcting
Week 7: Summarising
Week 8: Summarising
Week 9: Summarising
Week 10: Summarising
Writing
Throughout Term 1, students will be focusing on retell, narrative and procedure writing. They will practice developing ideas, characters, problems and solutions. Students will be focusing on the writing traits of Ideas, Word Choice and Sentence Fluency to enhance their narrative pieces. Students will explore the purpose and different types of procedures whilst identifying key language features and structure.
- Where do writers get their ideas from?
- How can I describe characters?
- How can I describe settings?
Weekly focus:
Week 1: Positive Start Program
Week 2: Retell
Week 3: Retell
Week 4: Narrative
Week 5: Narrative
Week 6: Narrative
Week 7: Narrative
Week 8: Procedure
Week 9: Procedure
Week 10: Procedure
Spelling and Grammar
We will continue to use the school wide Jolly Phonics program which gives students five
essential skills for reading and writing: Learning the letter sounds, Learning letter formation, Blending, Identifying sounds in words, and Tricky words. In grammar we will be practising correct sentence punctuation and learning about nouns.
- How can we apply these rules and knowledge to our everyday writing?
Weekly focus:
Week 1: Positive Start Program
Week 2: Silent B and alphabetical order
Week 3: Silent w and sentence work
Week 4: Silent K and talking marks
Week 5: wh as in whale and question marks
Week 6: ph as in elephant and commas in a list
Week 7: ea as in bread and exclamation marks
Week 8: Soft C and alphabetical order
Week 9: Soft G and proper nouns
Week 10: Revision
Maths
This Term our number focus is all things counting and place value. We will be focusing on exploring, reading, writing and making numbers in a variety of ways. Students will explore a range of number concepts by using a range of manipulatable materials such as MAB, counters, unifix, number expanders and number charts. Maths sessions will have a major focus on exploring place value to enable students to become confident when ordering, partitioning and rearranging numbers. We will be teaching a range of counting strategies and will be giving students a range of opportunities to count forwards and backwards with a range of numbers and from different starting points.
Within our Measurement and Geometry curriculum we will be exploring concepts of mapping with the goal of being able to create their own simple map
Through the Statistics and Probability curriculum we will be developing our understanding of graphing. Students will collect data from asking questions then create lists, tables and graphs. They will then interpret this data by asking questions about their data collected.
- How do we use numbers?
- How do we make numbers?
- How do we partition, order and rearrange numbers?
- How can we use patterns to help us skip count?
- What are the features of a map?
- How do we read and use a map to locate places?
Weekly focus:
Week 1: Positive Start Program
Week 2: counting, place value and graphing
Week 3: counting, place value and graphing
Week 4: counting, place value and graphing
Week 5: counting, place value and graphing
Week 6: counting, place value and mapping
Week 7: counting, place value and mapping
Week 8: counting, place value and mapping
Week 9: counting, place value and mapping
Week 10: counting, place value and mapping
Inquiry
In Inquiry this term, Level 2 are learning about communities through our ‘Places and
Spaces’ unit. Students will learn about the services in our community. They will consider sustainable practices as they design and construct model buildings for a precinct in our community. They will learn about navigation as they consider the language of direction and location.
• What services are in my community?
• How can I use a map to navigate my community?
• Who in my community can help me in an emergency?
• How can we build with sustainability in mind?
Weekly focus:
Week 1: Positive Start Program
Week 2: Immersion
Week 3: Habits of mind
Week 4: Emergency services
Week 5: Staying safe and healthy
Week 6: Sustainable features
Week 7: Design a community precinct
Week 8: Design a community precinct
Week 9: Design a community precinct
Week 10: Celebrating and sharing
What you can do at home
- Read 3-4 times a week with your child. Remember to check for comprehension!
- Cook, play word and number games, art and crafts, ball games, activities outdoors
- Discuss and share the positives about each day
- Enjoy wellbeing activities together as a family
Important Dates
Start of term: 31st January 2022
Thursday 10th February - Information Night
Wednesday 23rd February - Parent Workshop (growth)
Friday 4th March - Clean up Australia Day
Monday 14th March - Public Holiday - Labor Day
Tuesday 15th March - Curriculum Day
Monday 21st March - Harmony Day
Friday 25th March - National Ride to school day
Monday 4th April - Easter Bonnet Parade and raffle
End of term: Friday 8th April 2022
Communication
Miss Oakes: amy.oakes@heathmonteastps.vic.edu.au
Miss Ross: jennifer.ross@heathmonteastps.vic.edu.au
Mr. Macpherson: stuart.macpherson@heathmonteastps.vic.edu.au