Welcome Back!

Dear Parents,

Welcome back to school! This term is going to fly by with all the amazing activities and events we have planned. This includes NAIDOC Week, Science Week, Book Week, Life Education Van incursion, Cross Country, School Photos, Faction Carnival and Parent Learning Journeys.

The students have worked incredibly hard to settle back into their school routine this week, it’s wonderful to see how much they are growing and engaging.

Below is an outline of our learning focusses for the term.

Literacy:

·      Writing different text types including narratives, poetry, procedure and report

·      Experimenting with increasingly complex punctuation including commas, speech marks and ellipses

·      Reading comprehension skills and reading more difficult texts

·      Introduction to figurative language, including using similes and personification

·      Spelling a variety of new sight words and learning the year 2 phonics

Numeracy:

·      Column addition and subtraction with and without regrouping

·      Counting by 2, 3, 5, 10s and learning the relevant times tables to go with these

·      Multiplication and division

·      Fractions

·      Money

·      Numero game and challenges

·      Measurement including mass, capacity, length and volume

·      Telling the time

Science:

·      Chemical Science

HASS (History and Social Sciences):

·      Geography

You can assist our Geography knowledge by having access to a world map at home. We will be focussing on labelling a map of Australia including states and territories, capital cities and oceans surrounding Australia. We will then be looking at labelling the continents of the world and oceans.

Health:

·      CHAT program which focuses on Drug Education

Your help and support is always appreciated as we progress through the year. If you have any questions, please come and see me.

Warm regards,

Miss Ashlee Higgins

Mad Scientist Assembly

What a great assembly Room 14 and 15!
Thank you for all the parents and families for their help getting the children ready, organised and for being their on the day.
We hope you enjoyed our song, poem and interesting Science facts!

Weekly Phonics - Week 4 Sounds

Next week’s sounds will be ‘o as in pony’ and ‘u as in pull’.

If you have any objects that match these sounds, please feel free to bring them in for the beginning of the week. 

Thank you, we really appreciate your support. 

Science

This term in Science, we have been learning about how living things have needs. To help with our understanding, the students have become loving gardeners growing their own broad beans. The students have excitedly recorded the growth of their beans and taken great care to water and occasionally sing to them!
In the coming weeks, we will be further exploring the needs of living things by creating bird shelters from recycled materials.
I can't wait to see what the students create!

Harmony Day

On Wednesday the students and staff of Wattle Grove participated in the school Harmony Day parade. It was a wonderful celebration of how Wattle Grove embraces every person in our school community.
The students of Room 14 looked amazing in their cultural dress!

Daily Writing

Each day at Wattle Grove Primary School, the students participate in daily writing sessions to prepare for their Big Write session once a week. During these daily writing sessions, the students work hard to understand text structure, language and a suitable audience for their writing.
Over the last few weeks, our text structure focus has been narratives.

Room 14 have been writing wonderful stories about an under the sea adventure, a holiday and recently their own fairy tale.
This week the prompt has been 'The Day my Teacher Disappeared'.
To assist the students with understanding the prompt and thinking in detail about their ideas, we encourage the students to discuss their daily writing learning with their families at home.
To help guide these discussions, the Year 2 teaching team have created a set of questions called Talk Homework.
These can be used to prompt students to explore their ideas and think deeper about the language and structure they can use in these sessions.
Please find below upcoming Talk Homework prompts.
In the coming weeks our focus will be changing from narratives to persuasive writing.

If there are any questions, please feel free to send me an email or talk to me at school.

Your support and encouragement is always appreciated.

Semester One Student Councillors

I am proud to present Kayla and Max as our new Student Councillors for Room 14 in Semester One.

Kayla and Max are kind classmates who always aim to achieve in class.
Congratulations Kayla and Max!