Grade Two Curriculum Newsletter Term 2 2023

This Term Newsletter will provide you with information about your child’s upcoming teaching and learning experiences in the new term. There is also plenty of additional information provided via Compass throughout the school year, so please make a point of touching base regularly.

General

Welcome back everyone! We hope you all had a wonderful Easter and were able to spend some time with loved ones over the school holidays. With our children engaged in new and exciting learning throughout Term One, time has simply flown by! The Grade Two team has enjoyed getting to know your children over the past eleven weeks and watching them grow! With Term Two upon us, we are ready for another fantastic term of learning!

Literacy

Students have been relishing the opportunity to increase their knowledge of sounds and their corresponding spellings. This will be an ongoing focus for students in Term Two through our UFLI program. Students will be continuing to improve their fluency and expression when reading aloud, through regular practice. They will also continue to participate in class discussions about texts to gain a deeper understanding about the themes within the book. The focus texts have been chosen to support a deeper knowledge of our term topic of ‘Now & Then’. We have been retelling these stories and will begin to innovate on these, using their familiar structure to create a new story.

The home reading expectation for Grade Two students is for them to read at least 10 minutes per night for at least 4 nights a week. They are encouraged to bring back their readers and change them each week. We ask that students remember to bring their books in their reading satchels from home to school each day.

Maths

For Mathematics in Term Two, students will continue to develop their place value knowledge and use this to solve addition and subtraction problems, using a range of efficient mental and written strategies. Students will also explore the connection between addition and subtraction. They will tell time to the quarter-hour, using the language of 'past' and 'to', as well as use a calendar to identify the date and determine the number of days in each month.

Inquiry and Science

This term’s Inquiry unit is called ‘Then and Now’. In order to develop their knowledge and understanding of how ‘family life’ has changed over the years, students will be comparing the past to the present. They will explore how changing social norms, technology and exposure to other cultures has influenced their everyday lives. Students will be exploring the history of Lara and its surrounding areas, and reflecting on why these histories are important to our identity. Students will also be given the opportunity to explore their personal and family histories with a focus on family structures and how these may have changed, or remained the same over time.

Each year level team has provided their families with a detailed newsletter such as this. If you are interested in reading about all the exciting things happening across the rest of the school, these can be accessed online at our school website from early next week.

24th May 2023 Curriculum Day - no students on site