Level 2
Literacy
Reading - In Reading this term students are developing their reading fluency and decoding skills whilst focusing on analysing various elements of a text. They will search for key features of text types and grammar as well as compare and contrast characters, settings, genres and authors.
How can we compare and contrast?
What are some of the features of a fiction text?
What are the key ideas in texts?
Writing - In Writing this term children are focusing on narratives, looking at bold beginnings, mighty middles and excellent endings. They are encouraged to use descriptive and detailed language in their writing and look at the order of events in a text.
How do you as the author create a bold beginning, mighty middle and excellent ending?
How can you create an interesting sentence?
Spelling - Using our Jolly Phonics program, students will develop an understanding of various phonemes including long vowel sounds and grammar concepts including regular and irregular verbs, adverbs and past and present tenses.
What are some of the different ways to make the long vowel sounds?
What role do adverbs play in a sentence?
Maths
This Term in Maths we are exploring concepts of multiplication and division. We are making connections between making groups, arrays, repeated addition, skip counting and simple multiplication problems. Students are being encouraged to represent multiplication in many different ways and to develop both mental and written strategies to solve problems. Students are identifying the connection between multiplication and division by understanding that multiplication is making a number using equal groups whilst division is sharing a number equally into groups. Students will equally share numbers using concrete materials, arrays and mental strategies. We will be exploring concepts of both 2D and 3D shapes and encouraging students to identify their properties. We will be exploring the language of chance to explore the likelihood of events occurring and conducting simple chance experiments.
- How can we make numbers using equal groups?
- How does grouping numbers help us solve problems?
- What patterns can we notice when we multiply numbers?
- How are multiplication and division similar? How are they different?
- What happens when we can’t share a number equally?
- When do we use multiplication and division in real life?
- What strategies can I use to solve multiplication and division problems?
- What are the names of common 2D and 3D shapes?
- What is the difference between a 2D and 3D shape?
- How can we change shapes to create different things?
- How can we describe the likelihood of something occurring?
- What can I find out by conducting simple chance experiments?
Inquiry
Level 2 students are exploring Physical Science in Term 3. Students will explore concepts around ‘Light and Sound’ and ‘Push and Pull’.
In our mini unit ‘Light and Sound’ students will develop an understanding of how light is made and what a light source is, how light travels, that it can be reflected and cast shadows. They will investigate how sound travels through vibrations and produce sound using different objects.
These are the key essential questions students will explore during ‘Light and Sound’.
- What are 5 senses and what information do they provide for us?
- What produces light?
- How does light travel?
- What are shadows and how are they formed?
- How is sound made?
- Can similar sounds be made in different ways?
- Can pitch and volume be manipulated?
- How does sound travel?
Throughout the ‘Push and Pull’ topic students will develop an understanding of push (a force that acts on an object and causes it to move away from the source of the force) and pull (a force that acts on an object and causes it to move towards the source of the force). Students will learn that forces can cause objects to accelerate, slow down, remain in place, or change shape, push and pull forces occur all around us, gravity and friction.
These are the key essential questions students will explore during ‘Push and Pull’
- What are forces?
- What is a push?
- What is a pull?
- What is friction?
- What is gravity?
- How does gravity and air resistance work?
Important Dates
18th September - Last day of Term 3
5th October - First day of Term 4