Grade 2 Teaching Staff 2A: Breana Purcell – Room 8 2B: Brianna Forward- Room 7 2C: Chirs Mahony - Room 14 2D: Taylah Rheinberger- Room 12 2E: Joshua Turner – Room 13   Educational Support Staff 2A: Melinda Mills 2B: Kim Dohnt 2C: Kyle Rondinello 2D: Jayana Perera and Megan Marson 2E: Jessica Veng and Emily Williams

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

 Addition

 Subtraction

 Multiplication

 Shape

 Length

 Time

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

 Visualisation

 
Writing:
Recount Writing – A retold past experience

Author study on Imaginative Narratives – Analysing Graeme Base’s writing style

Informative Writing - Factual information

Poetry Writing - Acrostic poems, limericks, diamante poems etc.

Integrated Topic: 

Term 1 - “Community”
Students learn about the community space, who is in it and how to navigate it.

Term 2 - “World Map”

Students learn about famous countries, capitals and landmarks around the world, and how to be a tourist.