Term 1 Weeks 7 & 8 Blog

 

Good evening parents,

I hope everyone had a restful weekend and I hear from the children that the Year 2 get together after school on Wednesday was a great success.  It is hard to believe that we are about to start week 7.

Spy Recount

We will be starting our published copy of our Spy Recount this week.

Homework

On Monday we will be sending home the Year Two fluency grid with this fortnight’s focus sounds and tricky words. Have a look at our blog post titled 'Week 4 Information' which shows you how you can use this at home to increase your child's reading fluency. We have also included all the spelling lists for your information on the back of the fluency grid. The pink list 💓 is the target for Year Two from our InitiaLit program. Please feel free to use these lists at home to increase your child's spelling abilities. Have a look at our Fluency grids and spelling lists below to see our focus sounds 🤓

Learning Intentions

English: 

This week we are learning the spelling sounds 'soft c' as in cent, 'soft g' as in giraffe, '_dge' as in bridge and the tricky words for this fortnight are - walk, another, other, water, talk, great.

We have now finished our unit of work on the text genre recount and will be completing a 'Hot Task'. This is where the children are given a topic, 10 minutes to complete a planner that will help them to structure their recount and then a further 30 minutes to write their recount. This is completed independently, with no adult support, to showcase what each child has learnt throughout our unit of recount. 

We will now be starting to focus on the text genre of narrative. The children will complete a 'Cold Task' which is completed the same way as the 'Hot Task' but is used to inform our teaching so we are able to cater for each individual needs. We will also be looking at different images and how we can use a range of adjectives to describe a setting and character. This will help us to add more detail into our writing and to engage the reader. 

Maths:

This week, we will be finishing up our focus on addition and subtraction and commencing looking at skip counting and number patterns. We will be learning to:

Describe patterns with numbers and identify missing elements (ACMNA035)

• describing a pattern created by skip counting and representing the pattern on a number line'
• investigating features of number patterns resulting from adding twos, threes, fives or 10s

Parent Teacher Meeting 
Below is a link to my Calendly booking page. From there, you will be able to see the available dates and times to make a booking. Once you have booked, you will receive an email to confirm your booking.
Click here to access the 2N booking page

Interviews will be in Week 8 & 9 for those of you that would like to come in and have a chat. On Wednesday 22nd March, interview times will start from 1:30. Each block is for 15 minutes, with interviews approximately 10 - 12 minutes long. This allows time to get ready for the next interview.

Colouring In Competition - Project Compassion

OLC Spirit Spies, are promoting a colouring in competition to raise money for Project Compassion. Entry to the competition is $1 per entry. Children can enter as many times as they like but 3 entries = $3. There will be one prize winner per class. The winner will be announced at the end of Term 1.

Important Dates
Eucharist Commitment Mass: Saturday 18th March
Year 4 Sacrament of First Eucharist: Saturday 26th March
2M Prayer Assembly: Friday 31st March
Last Day of Term 1: Thursday 6th April

Thanks for your ongoing support!

Kaya

Mrs Noonan