26 Aug 2016

Year 2 Update Wk 2

Tuesday 30th August

5:00pm New parents’ wine and cheese

6:00pm Meet the Teacher

Friday 2nd September

Year 2 LEAP Trip

Thursday 8th September

PTA Meeting

Friday 9th September

5:00pm-9:30pm- PTA Social-Bowling

Monday 12th September

Year 2 Trip to Penfold Park

Thursday 15th September

PTA- Mid Autumn Market

Tuesday 27th and Thursday 29th September

Parent Consultations (more details to follow)

Spelling journals have gone home today. Please take a look and choose a few activities to practice the spelling words that will be assessed on Friday.

Please remember to return the LEAP forms this week, and don’t forget to read the home reading book with your child every day. Your comment and signature confirms that your child has read with an adult.

PMP volunteer forms went home! Please sign up if you are able!

This week has been a busy week of discussing healthy life-styles and how we do things in Year 2. Mr Thompson came to introduce himself to each class, and we learned that he used to live at Beacon Hill School many years ago! We also had our first Golden Book Award.

Lifestyle choices can affect human health and well-being

Lines of Inquiry

What it means to have a balanced lifestyle (causation)
The choices we make that affect our health (reflection)
Our responsibility for our own well-being (responsibility)

This week classes unpacked the Central Idea by looking into what well-being means, creating different categories of well-being, and sorting activities into these areas. Many students were interested in taking healthier snacks to school! As this is a school policy, it might be a good time to give your child a voice and practice making healthy lifestyle choices by discussing some snack ideas together.

We have connected to other curricular areas by thinking of procedures that keep us healthy, and practising some ways that art can help us relax. Teachers have shared some items that represent the different ways they make healthy life-style choices for rest and relaxation, nutrition and exercise, celebrating, friendships, safety, fresh air and connecting to nature. Students can start bringing in healthy lifestyle items that they would like to share too!

Recognise, model, read, write and order three digit numbers

In Maths students have been showing teachers what they know in terms of place value and counting to shape future lessons. Most students have a growing knowledge of double digit numbers leading to 100, and will start to focus on numbers beyond 100. To prepare, students have been skip counting by 2s, 5s, 10s and 100s.

We have also been using dice to choose numbers to create in different ways towards 100 and beyond.

Writing– The structure of a procedural text

Handwriting– Upper and lower case letters

Phonics– Year 1 review and ‘ee’ sound

This week we brainstormed ideas for procedures and how-tos that we can teach others. We’ve been looking at procedural texts from the library and reading books, and worked in small groups to identify the components of a procedural text and try to put them together in the proper places.

We have also done the initial Reading Eggs assessment, so you may want to check out the website at http://readingeggs.com.au/. Your child’s login name and password should be inside the home school diary.

2M – Natalie Chau

2G – Abigail Sin

2K – Caroline Noel

SLT Award – Mali Tan

Mandarin – Koen Chen

Spelling

Spelling folders went home today! Studying spelling words is new for Year 2 students, and is completed on a weekly basis. Please take a look at the folder with your child and remember to do two of the activities.

Reading

Home readers also went home this week. The procedure is to have the child read the book daily, preferably to mom or dad, then the child should retell the story including the main events and details without looking at the book. It is also good to ask your child a few questions about why they think certain things happened to build inference skills.

Meet The Teacher

Remember, Meet The Teacher is on Tuesday! We would like at least one parent from every child to attend if possible to go over some of the basics of Year 2. This is a good time to ask any general questions, but we ask that all personal questions about individual children be asked in a more confidential way. See you then!

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