Grade 2 Staff 2A: Paula Murnane – Room 28 2B: Taylah Rheinberger- Room 25 2C: Samantha Jones - Room 27 2D: Joshua Turner – Room 26   Educational Support Staff 2A: Amber Lucas 2C: Laura Russo 2D: Laura Russo

We are excited for a bigger and brighter year ahead with all of the Grade 2 students. Please don’t hesitate to come see any of our year 2 teachers with queries and questions, we are all very happy to answer them.

In Semester 1, the Grade 2 students will be focusing on:

Maths: 

 Number and Place Value:

• Counting to and from 999
• Number sequences and patterns
• Read, write, model and order numbers up to 999

 Area

 Division

 Multiplication

 Chance

 Length

 Volume

Reading:
 Solving words using a variety of decoding strategies

• Chunking into parts
• Stretching the word
• Blending sounds
• Skip the word and come back
• Flip the vowel sound

 Inferring

 Predicting

 Text connections

 
Writing:
 Recount Writing – A retold past experience

 Persuasive Writing – An argument
 Narrative Writing – A made up fictional story

 Author study – Analysing Graeme Base’s writing style

Integrated Topic: 

Term 1 - “Who we are”
Students will explore the following questions:

• Who is in my familey and what role do they play?
• What is right and wrong to do in our community?
• Who is in our local community that can help us?

Term 2 - “Change and Continuity”

Students will examine the change of technology, lifestyle and location overtime.

Bucket Fillers:
This year our schoolwide Bucket Filler program will focus on G.E.M!
G = Gratitude
E = Empathy
M = Mindfulness