Year 2 Update Wk 31
This week has been a great time to further explore the new Unit of Inquiry, break down the Central Idea and find out what students already know and are interested in. Teachers have also been assessing students in other areas for reporting purposes, and many students may have a reading assessment recently or in the near future.
Central idea: Geography influences how individuals interact with their environment.
Lines of inquiry:
- The significant features of places -form
- How the features of a place influence our activities -function
- The relationship of our location to other parts of the world – connection
Due to the cancellation of our trip, the classes have had some time to explore atlases and maps and have some time to wonder about the world. Pre-assessments show that a continued theme for this unit will be that we have divided the Earth into seven continents, and those are divided into many countries. Within countries are cities and land types, different types of people and cultures, and different ways to interact with the local environments.
Using the guiding statements below, students have been practising adding and counting mentally and using place value to make adding and subtracting easier. It’s easier to add 10 and 3 to 58 than to add 13 to 58. They created numbers by moving 100s, 10s, and 1s over from another number, and practiced breaking up tens to create more ones. A fun game we played had students line up with some instructed to count buy twos and others counting by 10s.
Count by naming numbers in sequences, to and back from 999, moving from any starting point
- Connect number names and numerals to the quantities they represent up to 999
- Count on and back to 999, moving from any starting point
Recognise, model, read, write and order three digit numbers
- Model numbers up to 999
- Read numbers up to 999
- Write numbers up to 999
- Order numbers up to 999
- Round up or down to the nearest 10
Apply place value to partition and rename, numbers to three digit numbers
- Partition and combine numbers to 999 (Hundreds, Tens and Units/Ones)
- Identify the value of a digit within a three digit number
- Apply their place value knowledge in a game situation Regroup/trade numbers up to 999
Students have really enjoyed writing about any topic in any styles that interest them. There has been nonfiction writing about fidget spinners (of course!), and poetry about Pokemon. Keep up the hard work, authors!
