Year 2 -Term 3 Overview

English 

Reading and Viewing:  

Focus:  Phonics, inferencing, synonyms, antonyms, fiction, non-fiction, Indigenous literature, poetry, common and proper nouns, verbs, adjectives.Students discuss different texts on a similar topic, identifying similarities and differences between the texts. Students read familiar and some unfamiliar texts with phrasing and fluency by combining phonic, semantic, contextual and grammatical knowledge using text processing strategies, including monitoring meaning, predicting, rereading and self-correcting. 

Writing: 

Focus: Punctuation: capital letters, full stop, commas, speech marks, question marks. Persuasive writing, Poetry, compound sentences. Students recognise that capital letters signal proper nouns and commas are used to separate items in lists. Create short persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences. 

Speaking and Listening: 

Focus: Show and tell, students share their favourite book, what it’s about, why they like it, who’s their favourite character. Students discuss how depictions of characters in print reflect the contexts in which they were created. Students identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things. 

Mathematics 

Number and Algebra: 

Focus: Counting, ordering and modeling numbers up to 1000. Skip counting by 2s, 3, 5, and 10s. Subtraction using a range of strategies. Adding Australian notes and coins to find the total value. 

Statistics and probability: 

Focus: Describing the outcome of events using terms such as ‘likely’ or ‘unlikely’, ‘certain’ or ‘impossible’. Creating graphs using collected data based on a question of interest for example “What is your favourite ice-cream flavour?” 

Humanities 

Science 

Topic: History 

Students learn about their own history and that of their family, including stories from different cultures. As participants in their own history, students develop their knowledge and understanding of how the past is different from the present. Students also learn about continuity and change in family life by comparing the present with the past. They begin to explore the links, and the changes that occur, over time. Students explore, recognise, and appreciate the history of their local area by examining remains of the past and considering why they should be preserved. 

Topic: Biological Sciences 

Students observe patterns of growth and change in the world around them, including weather and living things. Students will understand that living things have a variety of external features and live in different places where their basic needs, including food, water, and shelter, are met. They will observe and record how living things grow, change and have offspring similar to themselves.  

Music 

Art 

Focus: In Music this term we are learning about melody including high and low and a musical octave through the exploration of the Solfege notes; Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do. 

Physical Education 

Health 

Focus: In Term 3 students will create and participate in their own games. They will also propose a range of alternatives and test their effectiveness when solving movement challenges whilst playing their games and sporting activities.  

Christian Life 

L.O.T.E 

Focus: Using the stories of Bible, students will learn important lessons about obedience and forgiveness and discover that although we do things we shouldn’t—God is full of love and has a wonderful plan for our future.  

Focus: French 

Students will continue learning the French language through games, rhymes, songs, and stories. They will be encouraged to use French for greetings and everyday interactions such as thanking and apologising. Students used French for routines such as roll call and saying the days of the week. They will discover an adaption of the book ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ in French as they practice and revise counting, the days of the week and food vocabulary. They will be able to share and read a caterpillar book they made with family and friends. 

Focus: Hindi 

This Term, students will be thrilled to use their knowledge of Hindi to write a worship song! They will also create a tune for their song and be able to sing it with family and friends. 

Students will go on a mock tour of the Holy Land where they will explore and interact with each other in Hindi.  

Students will continue to work on the sounds and patterns of pronunciation and elements of the Devanagari script. They will also understand elements of Hindi grammar, such as the subject-object-verb sentence structure, question, answer and statement forms. 

Discovery Learning 

Digital Technologies 

Focus:  Students take library books home every week.  

Please remember to pack your child’s satchel. 

STEAM Teams 

Homework Expectations 

Focus: 

Food and Planting Preparation: Investigate food and fibre production used in modern or traditional societies. They investigate food preparation techniques. They visualise, generate, and communicate design ideas through describing, drawing and modelling and use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to produce designed solutions safely.  

Technology and Engineering 

Students will be learning and discovering basic coding skills as they explore a variety of robots through the use of Ipad apps. They will also design solutions to different digital and non-digital problems. 

Students are expected to read their reader each weekday and to also read books of interest such as their library book. 

They are given weekly spelling words to learn, they can also write them in sentences to show their understanding of the word. 

Students have access to Mathletics with assigned activities to consolidate the mathematical concepts they are learning in class.