Term 4 Week 7

Wow - how hot has it been?  It is only going to get worse I suspect........ Almost all the assessment is finished and we have the children finishing their Religion posters this week and doing their presentation. 


All of the children in the class have a role in the concert on 27th Nov.... Please advise me if you are not attending as our class is the nativity scene.... Please dress you child in cool singlet tops and light weight shorts as most of the children will have a costume provided for them and they will be wearing their clothes underneath.  It will be hot and don't overdress your child.  I will send out a note this week advising more detail about the concert.  The concert begins at 6.30 but your child needs to be in their room between 6 and 6.15pm.


Keep cool and enjoy the week.


Felicity

Term 4 Week 6

Another busy week ahead for the class.  We will be finishing our Religion and Science posters and then commencing work on our oral presentations. 


We will be having a Remembrance Day Liturgy on Tuesday afternoon at 2.25pm in Siena. 


NO swimming lessons on THIS FRIDAY 14th Nov.


Enjoy the week ahead.


Felicity

Term 4 Week 5

This week we start our swimming lessons. On Monday the children are required up in the classroom to get ready from 8.15am onwards.  Please let your child come to school in their togs as this will be more time effective.  On Friday our class leave for swimming at 1.15pm.  The children will have the opportunity to get changed into their togs during first break. 


On Wednesday and Thursday this week the class will be doing part A and part B of the Maths test. The students will also be finishing their Religion and Science Assessment. 


Enjoy the week ahead.


Felicity    

Term 4 Week 4

Welcome to another week.  This week the class will commence some assessment tasks.  The English assessment on the Dreamtime stories, the posters for science and religion as well as our Health test. 


Please ensure your child reads each night and returns their folder to receive a new book the following day.  Please also ask your child if they nee any lead pencils or rubbers.  Many students are running low.


Swimming lessons will start next week in week 5.


Enjoy your week.


Felicity

Term 4 Week 2

Week 2 will see our year 2 class in the usual routine.  In maths we will be commencing the concept of division.  Our usual literacy and numeracy rotations will commence this week also.  Homework is due on Friday and the spelling words will be tested on Friday morning.


Enjoy the week ahead.


Felicity

Term 4 Week 1

Welcome back to school! We hope that everybody has had a fantastic holiday and you are well rested, ready for our final busy term of the year.  In term 4 our science unit is the “water cycle”.  This unit will explore Earth’s natural resources, with a special focus on water. Throughout hands-on investigations, students will examine the water cycle and explore ways to reduce and conserve water use at home and at school.  This unit integrates Science, Technology and some components of Mathematics.  Our English unit is based on multimedia narratives and indigenous stories. Students will develop an understanding of the different features of multimedia and print texts, according to the audience, purpose, context and cultural background, and they will share opinions about characters, events and settings.  In Religion, students will examine the story of Zacchaeus and learn about Catholic missions and different organisations and later in the term we will explore the life and writings of St Francis.

 

 In Mathematics, we will explore

-              simple multiplication using groups and arrays

-              area

-              chance and possible outcomes of events

-              location and transformation

-              problem solving strategies

 

This term, students will continue to receive homework sheets and spelling lists. These will be distributed each Friday, glued in student’s homework book, to be returned to school on Friday.

 

In addition, swimming lessons will begin in Week 5 on Monday and Fridays for 3 weeks, beginning on Tuesday 3^rd  November and ending on Thursday 24^th November at Logan West Aquatic centre (formally Logan’s Hero’s) Students require swimmers, a towel, a cap and will travel to and from the pool by bus.

 

Dates to remember are the Pupil free day in week 3 on the 20^th October, and the end of year concert on Wednesday 26^th November. Please note this date has changed since the last school newsletter last term.

 

Have a good week.

Felicity

 

Term 3 Week 9

Another very busy week ahead for our class.  This week we will be finishing our science unit  PLEASE GIVE YOUR CHILD SOME RECYCLE BOXES AND CARDBOARD TUBING FOR THEM TO CREATE THEIR FINAL ASSESSMENT TASK!!!  Without these items your child cannot do the final task. 


I am in the office working with Mr Aspland on Thursday and Friday this week as Mr Gambley and Miss Castely will be away both of these days.  I will come and visit the class during these days. 


Please contact me if you have any issues or concerns.


Kind regards,


Felicity  Pryer

Term 3 Week 8

This week will be very busy... The children will be finishing their book reviews and book retell.  The students will also sit their maths test in 2 parts. Part A on Wednesday and part B on Thursday.  In religion the students will also do assessment task.  For science students are required to bring in some cereal boxes and cardboard tubing so they can create a marble circuit.  Please start collecting these items and bring them into school. 


The year 2 classes are hosting the Father's Day Liturgy this Friday the 5th September at 7.15am.  Please let me know if you are intending to attend so I can do my best to include your child for a job in the liturgy.  The Father's Day stall is on Tuesday so please give your child some money so they can buy a small gift for their father.  Gifts range in value from .50c - $5.00.


The year 2 teachers have planning this week, a relief teacher will be in the classroom during this time. 


Topics that will be covered in Maths test part A
Addition eg 50 + 60 = 110
Subtraction eg 98 +26 = 72
Multiplication eg 3 groups of 6 is the same as 3x6=18
Division eg sharing 10 lollies among 5 children is the same as 10 divide by 5 =2
Complete number patterns 550, 545, 540
Faction - halves, quarters, eighths of collections and shapes
Counting money - know the correct place to put the dollar sign and cents sign.


Topics that will be covered in Maths part B
Area of shapes
Maps - direction and finding positions on a grid
Time - digital and analogue for o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to
Calendars - Seasons and days in a month
Shapes - 2D and 3D eg pentagon has 5 sides, parallelogram has 4, irregular hexagon has 6.
Chance - even or uneven chance, likely or unlikely, certain or impossible
Graphs - reading and completing a graph, reading tally marks


Hope this helps you to go through these topic with your child.
Enjoy your week
Felicity Pryer

Term 3 Week 7

A very busy week ahead for all the class.  We had a puppet show yesterday in Siena hall, it was lots of fun.  This week we will be doing the last of the maths lessons as assessment will take place mid week next week.  We are also getting ready to do our book review next week. 


Enjoy the remainder of this week.

Term 3 Week 4

A busy week ahead for our class again this week.  The class will be learning about "Alliteration" during literacy lessons this week as we continue to explore our Author Review on Pamela Allen. In maths we will be looking at direction, grids and co ordinates.

Please remember next week the 13th August is our assembly.  The children are very excited and have been working very hard on this.  Please give your child a coloured Tshirt to wear over their uniform for the assembly. It can be any bright colour and preferably without any large writing or picture on it.  The children will just wear their usual sports shorts for the pants.

Week 5 is a very irregular week as the Monday is a public holiday, Tuesday the 12th is our under eights day and the children will spend the morning doing different activities and the Wednesday is the Book Week Character Parade in the morning at 9.15 am and then our assembly is on in the afternoon at 2.25 pm..... The children will be very out of routine and excited to say the least!!!

My apologies for not blogging last week.  It was a very disrupted and whirl wind week as my Grandmother sadly passed away last Friday night and I then flew to Sydney on Tuesday, we had her funeral on the Wednesday and then I flew home on Thursday.  It was a very taxing week. 

Enjoy the week ahead.
Kind regards,
Felicity

Term 3 Week 2

This week is another busy week.  Please remember that our class has their class photo on Tuesday.  All children need to be in full day uniform.


Please ask your child if they need more lead pencils, erasers or colours as many of the children are writing with very small pencils.  Please re stock your child's pencil case with the necessary items.


Many thanks.


Felicity

Term 3 Week 1

Welcome back to school! We hope that everybody has had a fantastic holiday and that you are all ready for our third term of the year.  In Term 3, our English unit will incorporate a number of fun Pamela Allen texts, as we engage in an author study.  Students will look at a variety of literary devices including rhyme, rhythm and repetition and will then write and share a book review.  If you have any Pamela Allen books at home, please send them to school so your child can share them with the class. In Science, the children will be looking at “Force and motion”. This unit integrates Science, Technology and some components of Mathematics.  The children will explore ways that objects move and how the different strength of pushes and pulls affects the movement of objects. In pairs, the children will design and construct a pathway for a toy car or marble to travel, showing their knowledge of the content learned. We require the children to bring in some construction materials, items such as cereal boxes and cardboard tubes. In Religion, students will explore forgiveness, reconciliation and the Sacrament of Penance. Using scripture, ICTs and picture books, we will examine broken relationships and how relationships are restored through forgiveness. For our Geography and History units the children will be looking at Continents and Oceans and Transport.   In Mathematics, we will explore

• addition and subtraction strategies
• word problems and number sentences
• telling and writing the time – O’clock, half past, a quarter past and a quarter to
• calendars, months and seasons
• fractions, including halves, thirds and quarters
• location and transformation
• problem solving strategies

 

 

This term, students will continue to receive their homework on a Friday and is expected to be handed in the following Friday.  Spelling words will be assessed each Friday morning.   These spelling words will be available on the blog and on the homework paper copy.  Studyladder and a number of other online activities will continue to be available via a link on the class blog. We encourage students to continue to access Studyladder and other interactive games listed on the class blog, as a fun way to consolidate concepts explored at school. As we move towards the end of the year and students gain greater confidence in negotiating their belongings, we encourage students to take greater responsibility for keeping track of their homework, spelling and home reading/sight word schedules. A reminder, spelling words and homework can be accessed via a link on the class blog, if spelling lists/homework sheets go missing.

 

Year 2 teachers and students are responsible for leading the Father’s Day Liturgy in September this term.  The date for this liturgy is Friday 5^th September at 7.15am.  Please watch for more information on this liturgy. 

 

2 Green has their assembly on Wednesday 13^th August, please keep this date free to attend assembly and watch your child. 

 

 Kind regards,
Felicity Pryer

Term 2 Week 10

This is the final week of term 2 and what a busy week we will have.......
Monday is the Athletics Carnival.  Children are encouraged to wear their house colour shirt for this day.




The remainder of the week will be fun.  We have cooking experiences planned and craft activities.


Please ask your child and replenish their supplies of lead pencils, rubbers, glue and colours as many children are running low on these items and borrowing other peoples.




Many thanks to all the parents who attended the interviews last week.  It was great to see you all and chat about your child's progress.
 


Enjoy the week ahead.


Kind regards


Felicity

Term 2 Week 8

A busy week consolidating assessment tasks and conducting parent teacher interviews. Thank you to all the parents who have taken the time to come and see me this week and discuss your child's progress.


The class will be finishing their history task - "packing a suitcase" this week.


Kind regards,


Felicity  

Term 2 Week 6

Welcome to week 6!  This week the students will be sitting their maths tests over 2 days.  Please help your child revise for this test. The topics covered in this terms test are:

-       2D Shapes

-       3D objects

-       Time (o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past)

-       Months of the year

-       Flipping and sliding shapes

Statistics and Probability

-       Reading graphs

-       Chance words      

Topics Covered:

-       Numbers to 1000

-       Addition and subtraction to 100

-       Linking addition and subtraction

-       Repeated addition

-       Multiplication sign

-       Division/sharing

-       Halves, quarters and eighths (whole and collection)

-       Number patterns

The children will also be doing their Religion test on the 10 commandments and the remainder of their History test.  The class will have dance fever on Tuesday morning and attend a Peter Combe concert in Siena Hall at 2pm on Friday afternoon.

 

Enjoy your week.

Felicity

 

Term 2 Week 4

This week is another busy week for 2 Green.  The students will begin their Information Report on a chosen animal. Our phonic focus this week is the long “u” sound as in “u_e”, “ew”, “oo”.  Please ensure that you help your child learn these spelling words as we have a spelling test each Friday morning.  We will also be focusing on adjectives in grammar. 

This week in maths we are revisiting the concept of halves and quarters.  In Religion we are continuing to look at the Old Testament and adding images to our Jesse Tree. 

Dance Fever is on Tuesday morning.  The Value for this fortnight is Commitment.

Enjoy your week.

Felicity  

Term 2 Week 3

Welcome to week 3 of term 2… How quickly have the past few weeks gone!

Please remember 3 important events this week. First on Monday, all Yr 2 students will be walking to the Greenbank RSL for our excursion at 9 am.  This is part of our History unit “Australians at War”.  On Tuesday we have a Mother’s Day stall at school.  The children are asked to bring some money (.50c - $5) to buy a gift for Mother’s Day.  On Friday morning at 7.15am we will be celebrating a Mother’s Day Liturgy in the Church.  Please return the form sent home last week if you intend to stay for breakfast.  If you don’t not have the form please indicate on an email or note that I will send to the office for catering purposes. 

The phonic focus this week is on the long vowel sound ‘O’ as in ‘oe’ ‘ow’ and ‘oa’.  Please help your child learn their spelling words as they have a spelling test every Friday morning. We are continuing our Information Report genre and will be writing a report on Elephants.  If your child has any books on Elephants they are welcome to bring them in to share with the class. 

In maths this week the children will be looking at fair shares and division. 

The value for the week is commitment.

Enjoy the week and kind regards,

Felicity    

Term 2 Week 2

This week we will begin our new units of work for this term.  Please refer to the classroom newsletter that was sent home on Wednesday afternoon for a detailed outline of the topics the students will be studying this term.
Homework and home readers will commence this week.  Homework is due in on Friday morning.  In spelling this week the students will be focusing on plurals "s" and "es".  In English, the students will be writing some descriptive texts this term.  This week we will be writing descriptive texts about "crocodiles".
Maths this week we will be relooking at 2D and 3D shapes.  Introducing the words chance, likely, unlikely, certain and impossible.
In History we will be looking at pictures of the Greenbank war memorial and studying different characteristics of this and where it is located. We will be discussing why they are special and the students will have to draw and label their own war memorial.  Please continue to collect and send in a shoe box and smaller boxes that fit inside the shoe box for your child to make their own suitcase to "go to war".
In Religion we will be beginning our work on the Old Testament and re familiarising ourselves with stories we have looked at before from the Old Testament; eg Noah's Ark and Creation.
Dance Fever is very Tuesday morning at 9 am. 
A "BIG" congratulations to all the students in our class... 2G received BOTH the library class of term1 and the Music class of the term!! The Library challenge is awarded on the most number of students who have remembered to bring their library bags in the cohort and the Music award is based on points accumulated in class for behaviour for the whole school.  GREAT WORK 2G!!!  I'm very proud.


Enjoy your week.



Felicity Pryer

Term 2 Week 1

Welcome to the start of term 2!  I hope you have all had a chance to relax and spend some time with family and friends. 

This is only a short week with school returning on Tuesday 22^nd April and Friday 25^th April is the Anzac Day public holiday. 

The school week will begin with a whole school mass at 10am in the hall to celebrate Easter.  Please remember that the students are invited to be involved in the Anzac Day March to the Greenbank RSL at 9.45 on the morning of the 25^th.

Please remember to return your child’s Portfolio to me asap.

Dance fever commences this week with the year 2 students attending at 9 am each Tuesday morning during term 2.

Our home readers will be given out for the children to commence reading with you.  Please ensure that this is returned daily.  In your child’s reading folder I have put a comprehension sheet.  This sheet is to assist you in asking your child questions about the book they have read.  Many of the students can read well but fail to understand the information they have just read.  Please use this sheet as a guide to help you when you read with your child.

Enjoy your week.

Felicity Pryer

Term 1 Week 9

Another very busy week ahead!!

The class will be putting the finishing touches (illustrations) on their recounts and they will also be creating the cover page for their Fairy Tale.  The spelling focus is on the long vowel sound I using "ight" and "I".  In Maths this week we will be revising some of the concepts that were covered in the Maths exam last week. 

We are very busy making posters about God's creation and we will also be going on a walk through the school grounds as "St Bernardine's Detectives" looking for areas where people have not been stewards of God's creation.  We will be discussing at length how we can look after God's earth better than we do and how we can sustain our environment. 

Enjoy your week. 
Felicity

Term 1 Week 8

Welcome to another very busy and exciting week in 2 Green.

This week we will be going to our excursion on Thursday to Mayes Cottage in Kingston.  This is a small 2 hour excursion and the 4 year 2 classes will be attending the Cottage in 2 sessions.  Our class and 2 Maroon will be attending the excursion in the morning and then 2Navy and 2White will attend when our group arrives back at school.  As the assessment task for English the children will have to write a recount of the excursion. 

On Wednesday and Friday this week all the year 2 children will be sitting their term 1 Maths exam.  We have broken the test into 2 parts so it is not so big for one test.  Part A will be on Wednesday and part B on Friday.

The Phonic focus this week is the long vowel sound I as in "ie", "igh", "y".  The class have almost finished the final copies of their Fairy Tales, and they are excited to share these with you on showcase night , Wednesday 2 April 6pm - 7pm. I hope to see you there.

Please ask your child about the progress of our meal worms..... Personally it is always a relief when we have a successful life cycle occur in these classroom experiences.  We had 4 beetles by Friday afternoon and hopefully there will be more when we look at them tomorrow and during the remainder of the week. 

Please feel free to contact me at any time.  Email or a note with your child is the best way or alternatively leave a message at the school office and I will contact you as soon as I can.

Enjoy your week.

Felicity Pryer

Term 1 Week 6

Welcome to Week 6! Can you believe we are more than half way through the term!! This week is another very busy week. On Wednesday the 5th March we will be celebrating Ash Wednesday. Our class will be taking part in a litrugy in the church at 10am. We will be making and eating pancakes this Tuesday as we remenber Shrove Tuesday. The Year 6 children are selling pancakes to raise money for Caritas. These will be sold at first break.

In Literacy this week the class will commence writing their own Fairy Tale. This is the genre we have been working on this term. Our Phonic focus is on the long vowel sound E - as is "e", "ee", "ea", "e_e", and our Grammar foucus is on creating compound sentences.

In Maths we will be spending more time on our mental maths strategies. The class have been working on their knowledge of doubles and near doubles and timing how quickly we can add them up correctly in our head.
The children will also be looking at 2D shapes and modeling numbers to 100.

This week the class will be introduced to our History Unit on the Logan Area. We will be going on an excursion at the end of the term as a part of this subject. More details will follow soon.

Please remember we are collecting donations for Caritas during this Lenten Season. Our class will be hosting the Parish Mass next Wednesday the 12th March at 9am. We would love to see you there....

Enjoy your week.

Kind regards,

Felicity Pryer

Term 1 Week 5

This week the class will be continuing our investigations on the mealworm. The children have really enjoyed watching and recording how these mealworms have grown. These are some of the best fed worms in the city as the children love to save some of their apple to feed to them.

In Literacy our phonic focus is on the endings of words using "ing" and "ed". The class will continue to dissect the narrative "Little Red Riding Hood". In Maths the class will be focusing on addition using doubles, near doubles and rainbow facts. This week we will now begin the Religion unit of "Creation story and being Stewards of Gods earth". We have all worked hard on our Vision Statement and we presented it today in the church with the year 4 classes.

Please remember we have commenced our Caritas appeal for the Lenten season and any loose change you can spare to give your child to give to our appeal would be appreciated. The Virtue that the children will be learning about for the next fortnight is Co Operation. It would be great if you have the opportunity to chat to your child about this virtue. Enjoy your week.

Kind regards
Felicity

Term 1 Week 4

This week the class will be very busy finishing our Vision Statement. Please note the date and time of our Vision Statement presentation. It is on Monday the 24th at 9.30 in the church.

This week our phonic focus is on the long vowel sound of a, i, o and u, using a_e, i_e, o_e and u_e. The grammar focus this week is on full stops, question marks and exclamation marks. We will be busy learning about the narrative of Little Red Riding Hood and discussing the structure of the story. In Maths the children will be looking at different counting patterns. The children will be learning about O’clock and half past on both analog and digital clocks. In science the students have been really enjoying the unit about the life cycle of the meal worm. We will be continuing our observations and watching them grow. Ask your child what a meal worm will turn into and what is the big word we use that describes the transformation.

Remember homework is given out on a Friday and expected to be handed in on the following Friday to be marked. Each week your child will have their spelling test on Friday morning. Please remember to read each night with your child.

Enjoy your week.

Felicity

Term 1 Week 3

We have another busy week ahead as we continue to learn how our classroom looks and sounds as we work in small group rotations for Maths and Literacy.  We are continuing with our daily comprehension and guided reading groups.  In maths we are continuing to investigate numbers to 200 and count in 2's, 3's, 5's and 10's from any given staring number. 

This week will also see us finish up our Daniel Morcombe Safety Unit and begin to investigate the life cycle of a mealworm in science.   The phonic focus this week is the long vowel sound a as in "ai" and "ay".  The children will be learning about commas in grammar and looking at the fairy tale "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" as part of our Narrative genre.  We are continuing work on our classroom vision statement.  Please note the date for our presentation is Monday 24th Feb at 9.30am in the church.  Sacred singing commences this Monday with Mr Gambley in church at 2.30pm. 

Enjoy your week.

Kind Regards
Felicity Pryer

Term 1 Week 2

Welcome to the first full week of this year! I hope all the children in our class have had a positive introduction to what year 2 is in my classroom.

This week will be the start of Music and PE lessons for the year. Our lessons are on Wednesday and Friday. These are the two days that the children need to wear their sports uniform. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday the children are required to wear their day uniform. Our class have Library on Thursday. A newsletter will be coming home this week to outline term one, so please look out for this important note.

This week in class we begin formal lessons. In Literacy this week we will be revising short vowel sounds, full stops and begin weekly comprehension tasks and guided reading. Home readers will be coming home this week. It is very important that your child reads their book every night and return it the next day to collect a new book. The home readers are meant to be easy for your child as we want this "home reading experience" to be positive and happy. Your child will be bringing home a reader that is a level or two below their PM benchmark. Homework will be sent home on Friday afternoon and is expected to be returned the following Friday. This allows for a weekend and 5 days for this task to be completed. I appreciate that you are all busy and having 5 days and a weekend to complete homework - I am hoping helps us all out. In Maths this week we will be looking at addition and numbers to 200. In health, we begin our safety lessons, using the Daniel Morcombe Curriculum. In science this week, we begin our investigations on the life cycle of a meal worm.

Enjoy the week ahead and please feel free to contact me anytime if you have any concerns or questions.

Kind regards
Felicity

Term 1 Week 1

Week 1

Welcome to 2 Green. I am delighted to be teaching your child and look forward to meeting you and working with you throughout the year.

This week, we, the school officers and myself will begin to get to know your child and we will also begin the establishment of the classroom routines and rules. We will be revising some Year One literacy and numeracy work after the long summer holiday and we will also do some Australiana themed work centred around Australia Day.

You will receive a Term One newsletter shortly outlining special days, homework and units of work. We will also give you a weekly update on this blog so please refer to it regularly.

Kind regards,
Felicity