Term 2, Weeks 1 & 2

 

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a wonderful holiday and a Happy Easter. I am looking forward to hearing all about your family adventures in the sun, wind and rain, that we have experienced during the holidays. I have had a wonderful time with my grandchildren, going to the beach and the Busselton fair.

Below is some information for the start of the term...

Wadandi Totems 🌨💧🍂🍁

We are now in the season of Djeran - This is when the weather becomes cooler, tree leaves turn orange and fall off. Josh Whiteland from Koomal Dreaming has approved a native flora and fauna totem and their traditional Noongar name, for all the classrooms at OLC. Over the coming weeks, we will be spending some time learning about the significance of these. Please see below for the Wadandi Totems assigned to 2N.

 

 

Plant 

Wadandi Name 

Animal

Wadandi Name 

2N

Round Reed 

Manjin 

Western Swamp Tortoise 

Yaagan 

 

Homework

The Year Two fluency grid with this fortnight’s focus sounds and tricky words will be sent home on Wednesday. The Term 1 blog post, titled 'Week 4 Information', will show you how you can use this at home to increase your child's reading fluency. We have 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.

Have a look at our Fluency grids and spelling lists below to see our focus sounds.




IntiaLit-2

This term we will be commencing InitiaLit-2. This program teaches children how to read and spell through daily lessons, using research-based teaching methods. InitiaLit-2 uses a range of storybooks to develop children’s vocabulary, oral language and writing.

How does InitiaLit-2 work?

By the time children are in Year 2, they have learnt that words are made up of sounds represented by letters. They should be able to work out most words they encounter for reading and spelling without guessing. The focus now moves to reading comprehension and spelling.

There are four main teaching components spread across the week.

• Comprehension and fluency

• Spelling

• Grammar

• Vocabulary (using children’s literature)

During the first 25-40 minutes of a lesson, the teacher will introduce a new concept to the children in a very clear and explicit way. A number of areas will be covered during the course of the program. Children will learn to use different comprehension strategies to help them understand what they are reading and will practise reading with expression.

They will learn the various ways to spell the sounds of English, as well as some spelling rules to help them make the correct choice. They will also be introduced to some simple and useful grammatical concepts to help with their writing.

After the new concept has been taught, the teacher will work with different groups of children in turn, helping them to develop their reading fluency and comprehension using a variety of reading material. The rest of the class will be engaged in different activities to consolidate their learning.

Learning Intentions

English: 

This fortnight we are learning the spelling sounds 'ai' as in rain, 'ay' as in play, 'ea' as in ear and 'ee' tree' and the tricky words for this fortnight are - until, here, was, February.

Please have a look at the rule for using 'ay' & 'ai' and 'ea' & 'ee' below:


 

We will continue to focus on the text genre of narrative. Last term, we began our text innovation, which we will finish this week, before commencing our good copy. Once this is completed, the children will then write a narrative genre 'Hot Task' to show their understanding of the unit that has been taught.

Maths: 

We will be reviewing odd and even numbers and the patterns they create when added together. We will be looking at ordinal numbers, ordering numbers from largest to smallest and smallest to largest, identifying missing numbers in a sequence, and identifying numbers before and after any given number. We will also be reviewing adding and subtracting using a number line and the ‘jump strategy’.  Below are two YouTube sites that you may helpful. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyZSbvy33m8   -  Addition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hHq0Y9tBkQ   -  Subtraction

Winter Uniform

We are making the move into our winter uniform, so fingers crossed everything still fits! Please do not stress if they do not fit as there is a three-week transition period. Please note that most days we will still need to have the door open to keep our classroom healthy and fresh, so it may be worth your child having their jumper in their bag as it can get cold!

Volunteers Needed - Math Pencil cases
Your child will receive a maths pencil case, full of hands-on resources, to use during math lessons. We will be looking for volunteers to make up our classes pencil cases. I would appreciate the help of four parents from 2N to help on Wednesday, 3rd May from 8:40 – 9:40. If you are able to help, please let me know either by email or in person as soon as possible.  

Important Dates for Term 2 2023

  1. Wednesday 26th April - First day of Term 2 
  2. Friday 28th April - ANZAC Day Assembly 
  3. Monday 1st May - Veggie Stall before school 
  4. Monday 8th May - Veggie Stall before school 
  5. Sunday 14th May - Mother's Day 
  6. Monday 15th May - Veggie Stall before school 
  7. Tuesday 16th May - Book Fair 
  8. Wednesday 17th May - Book Fair 
  9. Friday 19th May - National Walk to School Safely Day 
  10. Monday 22nd May - Veggie Stall before school 
  11. Monday 22nd May - Year 6 Leadership Day 
  12. Friday 26th May - National Sorry Day 
  13. Monday 29th May - Veggie Stall before school 
  14. Monday 29th - Friday 2nd June - National Reconciliation Week 
  15. Friday 2nd June - Pupil Free Day 
  16. Friday 5th June - WA Public Holiday 
  17. Thursday 8th June - Winter Sport Carnival 
  18. Monday 12th June - Veggie Stall before school 
  19. Thursday 15th June - OLC Cross Country 
  20. Friday 16th June - OLC dance concert 
  21. Monday 19th June - Veggie Stall before school 
  22. Tuesday 20th June - World Refugee Day 
  23. Monday 26th June - Veggie Stall before school 
  24. Friday 30th June - End of Term 2 

Thanks for your ongoing support,

Maree Noonan

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