Good Afternoon to our lovely Year Two Families,
After having some conversations with parents in the neighbourhood, we have decided to try and keep you 'in the know' a little more with what is happening in the neighbourhood. We would like to offer you opportunities to be involved and share with you the major concepts we are working on with your children so that you can stimulate discussion at home as well.
We will endeavour to make this a regular update and we welcome feedback on any other aspects of your child's school experience that you would like more information on. There are three sections: What's on this week, learning concepts, and how you can help.
What’s on this week:
Tuesday 10th September: Sharing our Inquiry learning with teachers and students from Singapore and seeing some of their learning experiences.
Wednesday 11th September 9.10am: Book Talk
Friday 13th September 1:20pm: Year Two has Talent Time
Learning Concepts:
The children have been introduced to the images of Shaun Tan’s work and we will continue to study his work as an author and illustrator.
The children will be exploring poetry to use rhyming words to explore spelling and sound patterns.
The children are being read Kumiko and the Dragon and Pippi Long Stockings as a daily serial and are developing reading and comprehension strategies by responding to these texts through discussion, illustrations, and reflections in their reading logs.
The children are working in target concept groups in number, developing their conceptual understandings of place value, addition and subtraction.
The Learning Agreement has been focused on portfolio pieces of work in the various areas of learning including publishing narratives, reflections on our Inquiry celebration, demonstrating their mathematical development, and reflecting on and setting new learning and personal goals.
The children are entering a new Inquiry into Puzzles and puzzlement. We are in the initial stages of exploring ‘what is a puzzle?’, ‘what are the purposes of puzzles?’, and ‘Is puzzlement the same as a puzzle and the same as a problem?’
How you can help:
Please assist your child to type their narrative at home if this is a possibility.
Please help your child to borrow and return from the junior school library in the mornings, there is a new borrowing system whereby a parent volunteer should be available to help your child scan in books from 8.50am-9am.
Please come along to Book Talk on Wednesday Morning, parent involvement is so important to us and the children love sharing books with families. Parents who attend read a story to a small group of children and discuss the book with a particular focus in mind.
Parents are invited to next week’s assembly on Tuesday 17th September to hear Nicola and Deb’s lunchtime choir perform.
We are commencing an author study into Shaun Tan. There is currently an exhibition on Shaun Tan’s ‘The Lost Thing’ at ACMI that you may be interested in visiting with your child.
Please note that school finishes at 2.30pm on the last day of school, next Friday 20th September.
Great idea!! This information is very helpful and informative to keep me in the loop, especially from my sick bed this past week in a half. Thank you. Tina Winn
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