Term 1 - Weeks 9 & 10

 Good afternoon parents and welcome to Weeks 9 & 10

We have had some pirate fun this week and Mr Lee has said that 2N can dress up as pirates on Friday this week! It is hard to believe we are entering the last two weeks of school. Library is back on Wednesdays. Sorry for any confusion.

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 of 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. Below are the Year 2 Fluency grids and spelling lists.

 



 

Learning Intentions

English: 

This fortnight, we are learning the spelling sound 'tch' as in ‘match’ and the prefix 'un' as in 'unfair'. The tricky words for this fortnight are - people, laugh, every, know.

Please have a look at the rule for using 'tch' below, it is like the ‘ck’ or ‘k’ rule:

‘tch’ or ‘ch’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW7_tssT1XU 

‘ck’ or ‘k’ -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTmXI3cjCUA  

We will continue to focus on the text genre of imaginative narrative writing (fiction story writing) and last week began our mentor text titled ‘Pete the Cat and the Treasure Map’. Over the next fortnight, we will be exploring narrative structure using ‘Story Mountain’. You can help your child to better understand story structure by using the below ‘Write Your Own Story Adventure Story’. You may wish to identify some elements when reading fiction text with your child. An excellent YouTube explanation of narrative writing is below:

 


How to Write an Imaginative Narrative for Kids |Episode 1: What is it?| by Teaching Without Frills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ3RwPeerOg

 Maths: 

We will be concluding our unit of skip counting this week. Children will need to skip count forward and backwards from any starting point. They will also need to identify a pattern of numbers, e.g.:

·         5, 7, 9 - counting by 2s.

·         3, 6, 9 - counting by 3s.  

By the end of Year Two, the children are expected to skip count in 2's, 3s, 5's and 10's from any given number.

Youtube clips that can be of help:

 Workout & Count | Skip Count by 2's, 5's and 10's | Count Backwards | Jack Hartmann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_yUC1NCFkE

 COOL COUNTING! (Skip-counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS3W9WLIxlQ

 By the end of Year Two, the children need to be able to:

·         Describe a pattern created by skip counting and representing the pattern on a number line.

·         Investigate features of number patterns resulting from adding twos, fives, or tens.

 Pirate Fun

On Monday, children came into class and discovered a pirate treasure chest. After recess we found a key to unlock the chest. Inside was a treasure map, so with great excitement, we set off to find the treasure only to discover that it was not the real treasure but itchy seed pods from a tree at school! The children were very disappointed. Luckily there was another treasure map inside the box, and we set off again to follow the red line. We looked in all the places the map suggested we follow and kept an eye out to ensure it wasn’t hidden along the way. We looked in the basketball court bin, the chook pen bin and the recess area bins as well. No treasure was to be found, so we went back to the classroom. To our surprise the treasure box now contained Chupa Chups! The class discussed how the Chupa Chups could have been placed in the treasure chest. Two theories emerged:

1.    Mrs Lynn put them in the treasure box very quickly.

2.    Yr 6 buddies were playing a trick on us in revenge for spying on them a couple of weeks ago. The class decided that this theory was the most likely. 😊  

 






Parent Teacher Meeting 

Below is a link to my Calendly booking page. From there, you will be able to see the available dates to make a booking. You will receive an email to confirmation your booking.

Click here to access the 2N booking page

Interviews continue this week, for those of you that would like to come in and have a chat. Each block is for 15 minutes, with interviews approximately 10 - 12 minutes long. This allows time to get ready for the next interview.

Project Compassion Colouring in 📝

The school is running a colouring competition to raise money for Project Compassion. If your child would like to enter, please send their entries in with a gold coin. Winners will be announced per class at the end of this week. 

Extended Leave
Please note that if you are planning on starting your holidays earlier, can you please make sure that you fill in an extended leave form, these are available from the office.

Important Dates
2M Prayer Assembly: Friday 31st March
Last Day of Term 1: Thursday 6th April

Wishing you a great week!

Mrs Noonan

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