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